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There's also another element at play, and that is their learning style. My boy Théo is a doer. So, for example, when I was teaching him the names of different toys and would present two different toys and say "dinosaur", he would just go to whichever toy he wanted to, and I would tell him if he got the right one by clicking and rewarding. For him and other dogs who are doers, it takes lots of repetitions for them to truly learn it. The clicker however cuts down on the number of repetitions needed.

With my girl Maezie, she's a thinker. When I was teaching her the same thing, I'd get a completely different behavior from her than Théo. She would just sit and stare, bark, pace a little bit back and forth like she was thinking about it, and hesitate. But once she got it and ended up going for the right toy, it took far less repetitions for her to learn which toy I'm asking for when I say dinosaur.

Some people might think that one is more intelligent than the other, and that may be true, but it can be tough to come to a conclusion on that because they have very different learning styles. And their learning style relates to the number of repetitions needed for them to learn something.