Puppy Learns to Drive in 8 Weeks: Just How Smart Is a Pet Dog?

Keeping a dog seems to have become most people's first choice for a pet these days, and the recent news that a puppy learned to drive in 8 weeks instantly became a trending topic. So what is this situation? What are the details? Just how smart are dogs? Let's take a look together below.

1. What is the situation with the puppy learning to drive in 8 weeks?

Three puppies in New Zealand mastered basic driving skills in just 8 weeks and could drive a modified car.

In fact, these three puppies were adopted by the New Zealand animal charity SPCA and are named Morty, Ginny and Porter. After 8 weeks of training, they had learned to drive a modified MINI on their own: they can shift gears, turn the steering wheel, and sit in the driver's seat. Now Porter among them has become the world's first dog that can drive, and can drive a Mini on the road alone.

2. Just how smart is a puppy?

1. Depending on the breed, the intelligence of an adult dog is generally equivalent to that of a 6- to 7-year-old child. The size of a dog's cranium is proportional to its intelligence, and a dog's intelligence is also related to its owner's training.

2. Every kind of dog is different; the smartest is the Border Collie. If trained well, it can reach the intelligence of an 8-year-old child, while the intelligence of a typical adult dog is roughly equal to that of a human between 2 and 7 years old.

3. Some scientists have proven that the great increase in human intelligence was because humans ate cooked food. This is because eating cooked food saves the energy used to digest raw food, and that energy can be used to support brain development. The same is true for dogs: over the past hundred years, dogs have stopped eating raw meat, so they have enough extra energy to promote brain evolution.

4. Dogs are hailed as humans' loyal companions, and dogs are also generally regarded as clever and quick-witted partners. Dogs are social animals, and first of all they respond rather strongly to tone of voice. As for dog intelligence, the vocabulary a dog understands should be about the same as that of a normal person around ten years old, but this is limited to understanding words, most of which is reflexive understanding; understanding of meaning is perhaps about the same as that of a three- or four-year-old child.

3. Which dogs are highly intelligent?

Dog intelligence, like that of humans, varies from high to low. The following is a ranking of dog intelligence and working intelligence:

1. Border Collie

2. Poodle

3. German Shepherd

4. Golden Retriever

5. Doberman Pinscher

6. Shetland Sheepdog

7. Labrador Retriever

8. Papillon

9. Rottweiler

10. Australian Shepherd

11. Pembroke Welsh Corgi

12. Miniature Schnauzer

13. English Springer Spaniel

14. Belgian Tervuren

15. Schipperke, Belgian Shepherd

The above is the relevant content about a puppy learning to drive in 8 weeks. After reading it, do you have a new understanding of just how smart puppies are?