A bizarre article in The Times reports: “A study has suggested that most dogs can link words with familiar objects. The ability had been demonstrated in only a small number of “gifted” canines.” Well no shit, Sherlock. I hate to think how much money is spent on these pointless experiments. Anyone who lives with a dog or even knows one could have told them this in a minute.
I am all for research, but this, really? Who could not have told the government that “smart” motorways were a bad idea – the death toll continues to rise? Likewise just about anything John Prescott dreamed up. Surely these researchers could have found something more worthwhile on which to spend their time. There was an earlier study which proved that dogs “appear to recognise different human languages or accents: their brains fire differently when spoken to in their owner’s language…” Isn’t that just a matter of whether or not they understand what is being said to them? This from a university in Budapest. Sorry to be rude to the experimenters, but this part of it perhaps might be renamed Department of the Bleeding Obvious.
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