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        The world's smartest dog with over 1000 tricks in the Guinness
        World Records belongs to...  a fucking TOY POODLE? WTF, I
        thought toy breeds are suppose to be stupid.
        \_ A lot of very smart dogs flunk out of guide dog training.  It
           requires too much attention to something that just isn't
           interesting to them.  Same thing for assistance dog training.
           Playing fetch all day long for the disabled is simply boring for
           the smarter breeds so a lot of them fail out.  The ones that are
           not quite so smart but still trainable and more eager to please are
           much more likely to succeed in these roles.  They aren't as fast and
           don't always get it right but they don't give up and serve well in
           those roles.
           \_ This is true with engineers. If you hire someone too smart
              for your code monkey job, he/she gets will get bored easily
              and jump ship or transfer to a more challenging job. On the
              other hand if you hire someone patient but not too brilliant,
              that person tends to stay a bit longer.
              \_ Why would you hire a smart engineer for a code monkey
                 job?  Of course the smart engineer will leave when
                 given a code monkey job.  He/she has better things to
                 do with his/her abilities.  It's as simple as right
                 tool for the right job.
        \_ Smarter dogs would refuse to learn tricks and still get fed, like
           cats.
           \_ You have a stupid definition of "smart".  Smart dogs do tricks
              so they can have more offspring--people don't usually breed
              cat-like dogs.  So it's:  want more chance of having kids?
              do tricks.
              \_ And you have a restricted view of smart, too.
                 Wanting to have kids is more instinctive thing than
                 "smart" thing.  When I watched "March of the
                 Penguins," I thought, "is it worth that kind of
                 trouble to reproduce?"  If a penguin decides to enjoy
                 the life it's been given without succumbing to
                 instinctive desires?  Is that a "smart" penguin or a
                 "stupid" penguin?
              \_ You're assuming that dogs want kids.
                 \_ Whether or not they want kids, they want to get laid.
                    \_ Then the smart dogs will run away before they're old
                       enough to get fixed.
        \_ Wow, this topic got stupid fast.  Really fast.
           \_ Actually, I find it interesting. Why is it stupid?