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In “How Smart are Animals?” the author Dorothy Patent, is informing us about the smart abilities animals really have. Animals are smarter than we think. In the first few paragraphs she tells us that a dog, named Villa saved a young girl, named Andrea, from a massive blizzard the dog rushed to her side and got her to safety. This just tells us that animals really can think and process what’s going on. The story explains the perfections and flaws animals have when it comes to training. In the story a part of it tells us that when animals are performing kind of like dolphins they act as if they are in a play or movie like humans do. Dorothy Patent is basically giving us all the information we need to decide on our own whether not animals

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