As If There Were Any Question ...

Dogs are smarter than most people think:

• Common Collie or Überpooch? (washingtonpost.com)


• Smart Dogs: Canine Word-learning Research Yields Surprising Findings About Human Speech Comprehension (Science Daily)


• Old Dog Learns New Tricks (Nature)


• Dog Prodigy Gives New Meaning to Language (NPR)

And thinking of dogs, there was a super sweet 7-week-old pointer in line behind us at the MVA yesterday; but the MVA staff made her stay outside with one of her people while the other got her license renewed.