<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">While browsing through the "Think Geek: Stuff for Smart Masses" web site, I came across the page for interactive intelligence games for dogs. I was really pleased to read the following in the product description section:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica Neue">"We have a bone to pick with dog intelligence tests. Here's how the normal test goes: Tester throws a towel over the dog's head. Tester times how long it takes for the dog to throw the towel off. Apparently on this test, Poodles were #1 and Basset Hounds were ranked the stupidest. Having owned a Basset Hound, one of our monkeys heartily disagrees. Basset Hounds, she says, aren't stupid, they're LAZY. If a towel over the head isn't conflicting with the nap in progress, a Basset Hound has no incentive to remove the towel. On the other side of the spectrum, it could be argued that Poodles aren't smart, just very high strung. . . . if someone has both a Poodle and a Basset Hound, we'd like to know who is REALLY smarter in a battle of Interactive Intelligence Games!"</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">To read it for yourself, go to <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/pets/dd03/#tabs"><font color="#0011ed" style="color: #0011ed">http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/pets/dd03/#tabs</font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">I was really tickled to see a public refutation of that stupid intelligence test and bassets' undeserved low score on it. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Elizabeth</font></div>
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