Why Do Dogs Are Better Pets Than Cats
Good evening, I am here to convince you that dogs are better pets than cats.
My three main points are: 1. Research has shown when it comes to intelligence, dogs out rank cats. 2. A dog will never try to talk you out of taking a walk. 3. Dogs are not only great companions but in some circumstances, can save your life.
My first major point is that research has shown when it comes to intelligence, dogs out rank cats. Although you wouldn’t want your dog to balance your checkbook, research has shown that dogs can count. According to Stanley Coren, PhD, of the University of British Columbia, they can also understand more than 150 words and intentionally deceive other dogs and people to get treats. According to several behavioral measures, Coren says dogs’ mental abilities are close to a human child age 2 to 2.5 years.
In 2004, German researchers reported that a border collie named Rico could learn the name of an object in one try and remembered them all a month later.
In other studies, dogs as young as six weeks old showed amazing ability for understanding human expressions such as finger pointing or gazing at certain objects. Juliane Kaminski of the Mac Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology says “When it comes to understanding …show more content…
The New York Times recently had an article on a Laberdoodle named Jet, who lives in New Jersey. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a
My three main points are: 1. Research has shown when it comes to intelligence, dogs out rank cats. 2. A dog will never try to talk you out of taking a walk. 3. Dogs are not only great companions but in some circumstances, can save your life.
My first major point is that research has shown when it comes to intelligence, dogs out rank cats. Although you wouldn’t want your dog to balance your checkbook, research has shown that dogs can count. According to Stanley Coren, PhD, of the University of British Columbia, they can also understand more than 150 words and intentionally deceive other dogs and people to get treats. According to several behavioral measures, Coren says dogs’ mental abilities are close to a human child age 2 to 2.5 years.
In 2004, German researchers reported that a border collie named Rico could learn the name of an object in one try and remembered them all a month later.
In other studies, dogs as young as six weeks old showed amazing ability for understanding human expressions such as finger pointing or gazing at certain objects. Juliane Kaminski of the Mac Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology says “When it comes to understanding …show more content…
The New York Times recently had an article on a Laberdoodle named Jet, who lives in New Jersey. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a