I think that question is more paradoxical than I think it is.

BillCo: I could certainly believe that 87% of dogs are smarter than USA Today readers.

God damn you...

BillCo: I could certainly believe that 87% of dogs are smarter than USA Today readers.

I resemble that statement!

My dogs are dumber than a box of rocks. I have two dogs. So each dog is dumber than half a box of rocks.

How dumb is a box of rocks? Twice as dumb as half a box of rocks, of course.

They are who we THOUGHT they were!

Oh don't mind us, we're only a couple of rocket scientists here... Now give us some steak and scratch the backs of our soft, fluffy ears, kay?.

If 87% of people in general think dogs are smarter than people think they are, wouldn't that mean dogs are exactly as smart as we think they are?

Somebody needs to pass this information along to the dogs that eat sh*t.

We think that dogs are smarter than USA Today readers, who happen to agree to this by 87 percent?
/my head hurts
//i want my steak

I think USA Today should stop doing statistic articles based on findings from the Eukanuba Tournament of Champions.

/Agrees

Abstruse: BillCo: I could certainly believe that 87% of dogs are smarter than USA Today readers.

God damn you...

My first thought upon seeing headline, and first thought upon clicking the comments.

You farkers and your ESP.

I make up 62% of my statistical findings.

My dog reads the Muttne Reader

Pair-o-Dice

Somebody needs to pass this information along to the dogs that eat sh*t.


Four words: Two girls, one cup.


/schizer!

Thousands of years from now archeologists will unearth billions of plastic bags containing dog shiat. What do you think they will make of this?

NikolaiFarkoff: Your dog wants pie...charts.

Do I LOOK stupid?

NOT a smart dog...

I recall reading about a recent study that found that dogs were intellectual equivalents to human 2 year olds.

That's not too bad. They'd be right at home in politics.

If dogs were smart they would have hands with opposable thumbs. Those things are useful.

I think I'm someone other than who I think I am... and you can too!

I'm pretty sure this whole dog thing has either, or is going to divide by zero very soon.

FeFiFoFark: Thousands of years from now archeologists will unearth billions of plastic bags containing dog shiat. What do you think they will make of this?

Hopefully something delicious

For their next poll:

This sentence is lying
[]Yes
[]No

My dog eats poop, must be a genius.

Dogs are generally great pets. That being said, they are not intelligent. I love watching the Dog Whisperer just so I can see Cesar Milan show up, admonish the owner for treating their dog like some sort of psuedo-human, then immediately correct the problem behavior by treating the dog as the inferior creature that it is.

Another level of game theory ?

I have two dogs, a 9 year old black lab mix and a 9 MONTH old chow mix. Yesterday when I got home, I put the lab out on the leash in the back yard (I put them out one at a time) and closed the slider screen door. It's been cold here for a long time (eastern PA), so NOT closing the big heavy glass door was unusual. The chow mix pup must not have noticed me close the screen door or thought that by not closing the heavy glass door that I was leaving the gateway to freedom wide open. I walked away not thinking anything about what I had just done and the chow pup bolted to run out the 'open' door... only to be pwned by the screen door.

I love my dogs, but that really made my day.

Pair-o-Dice: Somebody needs to pass this information along to the dogs that eat sh*t.

Maybe they are really that smart and know something we don't

"I think that women are smarter than men, but I also think dogs are smarter than women."

Apparently most of the USA Today readers reside at Lake Wobegon...

Your dog wants a PhD in human behavioral studies.

// and steak, of course.
/// the good stuff - not the crap you eat.

87 percent of USA Today readers believe dogs are smarter than we think they are ... 61% of the time.

WTF kind of poll options are "more", "less", and "unsure"? Maybe I'm sure that dogs are about as intelligent as I always thought they were.

Read the Wall St. Journal

/miss ya, silly dog.

I'll just leave this list of why dogs are better than women here...

1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
2. Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs.
3. If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don't hate it.
4. Dogs don't notice if you call them by another dog's name.
5. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.
6. A dog's parents never visit.
7. Dogs do not hate their bodies.
8. Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
9. Dogs like to do their snooping outside rather than in your wallet or desk.
10. Dogs seldom outlive you.
11. Dogs can't talk.
12. You never have to wait for a dog; they're ready to go 24 hours a day.
13. Dogs find you amusing when you're drunk.
14. Dogs like to go hunting and fishing.
15. Another man will seldom steal your dog.
16. A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, "If I died, would you get another dog?"
17. If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away.
18. A dog will let you put a studded collar on them without calling you a pervert.
19. A dog won't hold out on you to get a new car.
20. If a dog smells another dog on you, they don't get mad. They just think it's interesting.
21. On a car trip, your dog never insists on running the heater.
22. Dogs don't let magazine articles guide their lives.
23. When your dog gets old, you can have it put to sleep.
24. Dogs like to ride in the back of a pick-up truck.
25. Dogs are not allowed in Bloomingdale's or Neiman-Marcus.

And, last but not least:

26. If a dog leaves, it won't take half of your stuff.

Pair-o-Dice: Somebody needs to pass this information along to the dogs that eat sh*t.

Meanwhile, a large percentage of people believe in various interpretations of an invisible omnipotent sky fairy.

I'll call it even.

87 percent of USA Today readers believe dogs are smarter than we think they are

all you have to do in america is believe. facts and knowledge are not valued anymore.