http://www.jyetara.com/think.html

Please read the link that is provided and let me know if you think that this article on how a dog thinks is accurate.

Tammy
I,m open to every thingbut I chose not to believe this. I believe dogs are smart. I believe dogs think and I believe dogs form response to certain stimulas and have a sense of time thus asking for there food or play at a certain time of day.
I do NOT believe a dog can rationalize. (heis hungry you put out a large bowl and a small bowl of food. He thinks. Im real hungry ,ll go to the big bowl, or ,Im not that hungry Ill eat the small portion and save the other) NOT!!!! I dont think so!
Just my two cents

Ron

What I'd like to know is how the idiot who wrote that article Tammy linked to thinks I'm going to be able to (or even want to try to) read black type on a purple background!

wow thats the worst run on sentence I have ever seen. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Hanky, you need to work on your capitalization.

How'da ya like dem' apples?

I got to "when the dog ate my magazine it was because he wanted my scent", or something like that and then punished pup pup for it. The dog thinks he wants to be close to his owner; please the dog doesn't know what he's being punishe for. This guys weird in my op..

Whew! Good, I was afraid I was goofy! I did not like the article myself but am still in the learning stages and not sure if they has some truths in this article. Thanks! :rolleyes:

I have two responses to the article: the diplomatic version, and the other kind.

Diplomatic version :

The Cambridge dictionary defines "think" in the following manner: THINK (verb): To use the brain to plan something, solve a problem, make a decision, etc.

In this simplistic sense, a dog "thinks" because he's solving a problem like "I want food", or "I want to avoid an unpleasant experience". Dog therefore modifies his behavior accordingly.

However, the article seems to suggest that the thought patterns, while dissimilar graphically, function similarly ideologically. This assertion ignores a more patent issue, namely that of scope. While a dog may be able to "think" in a rudimentary sense, it is incapable of the complex and unconditioned reasoning process found naturally in the mind of the human.

It is interesting that the author chose not to apply his canine thought theory to the "stimulus" component of the dog behavior that illicited the punishment response from the owner-did the dog "think" about chewing the magazine? Instead, the author regales us with a chain analysis of what are more appropriately referred to in relevant authorities on canine training as "drives", namely the anxiety and frustration caused by the removal ofa desired condition for the animal.

The article would be more compelling if supported by literature less than 30 years old. While old theories are not necessarily bad ones, it is evident thata substantial amount of research on canine behavior has been conducted over the past 30 years. Teh fact that none is cited by this author would suggest that his article is contrary to more recent authority on the subject.

The "other kind" :

This is precisely the kind of baseless, touchy-feely, left-wing hippy-dippy crap that makes me want to jump in front of a bus. Where's Kapitan Korrektur when you need him? Somebody turn on the Bat Signal...

Technically speaking, it's not run on, Hanky, it just requires a decent attention span to parse. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

As for the article, Iain pegged it, IMO. It reads like something written by one of my neighbors here in Santa Cruz, CA, the West Coast Axis of Woo-Woo.

Well, call me Woo Woo, because I don't see what's so hippy dippy about the article. Basically, the author is simply saying that dogs think in images, and cites some interesting material in support. As far as I know, nobody really knows how dogs think, so it's just the author's hypothesis anyhow.

I agree that the black on purple is blechy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />