Dogs have been bred for everything else - I wonder how breeding dogs for intelligence would work out.
One of ours can reliably tell time from analog wall clocks. It's her job to put our daughter to bed on time, and she does, understanding school nights, weekends, and summer vacation all make circumstances different. We figure she's reading the clock because she's not confident about the DST change if we miss resetting those.
It sounds crazy!
Little hound grew and is polite but insistent on the fact that there is still a bedtime, even though it is later now and daughter no longer needs someone to sleep beside her all night.
https://knitowl.blogspot.com/2016/12/our-catahoula-schedule-...
No idea if they're still going, but I haven't heard anything of them for ages.
Can't, for the life of me, remember the name of the kennel though.
Malis seem to be becoming more popular as police dogs too, as there's so many hip problems in shepherds.
I personally think it’s tragic that we selectively breed breeds into those kinds of problems for aesthetics.
Far too clever for his own good that dog, I miss him.
This seems to have the most history: https://olderhill.webnode.com/history-of-the-olderhills/
Moreover, most animals are smarter than people assume.