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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  First, please explain how science doesn't back up the causation I have attributed to my experiences. Are dog brain cells not even remotely the same size in the toy vs. large breeds? |
What I understood from your previous post was that Yorkie's brain size = the reason they are harder to train because their brains are "less effective" etc.
Please correct me if I'm wrong! If, however, my interpretation of your comments are correct, I would have to ask you to consider the suggestion that you are less intelligent than an elephant who has a brain considerably larger than your own (approx. 17lbs) or a blue whale.
If one considers the above, it may be possible to understand why attributing intelligence to brain size doesn't make sense. Having said that, I do understand why you have come to that conclusion i.e. more space = more room for synapses etc. In reality, it just doesn't work that way!
Hope that makes sense. It's very hard to put into a paragraph the hundreds of different things we know about the brain and the trillion other ones we don't! I'm afraid we may have spun the OP's post into a very technical tangent - many apologies!