I would have to say yes – dogs have an intelligencethat exceeds and defies many modern day humans…and within this concept resides the real key to understanding and training your dog...
Base and Refined Intelligence - Humans & Dogs
The First Intelligence, as I see it operates in the absence of refined thought. This form of intelligence has its foundation in base instinct and inherited traits.
Your inherited traits determine your pre-disposition to be:
Your inherited traits determine your pre-disposition to be:
- An introvert or an extrovert
- Left Brain, or Right Brain.
- Left Brain Hemisphere;
- If you fall into this category you may have a pre-disposition to be:
- Naturally confident...
- Calm,
- Dominant;
- Tolerant.
- Right Brain Hemisphere
- If you fall into this category you may have a pre-disposition to be:
- Naturally insecure...
- Lacking in confidence;
- Nervous;
- Anxious;
- Fearful.
Base instinct can be seen in the behaviour of individual human beings and in the collective behaviour of multiple human beings. For example:
- When humans get together to form a crowd, which then due to various triggers results in a heightened degree of reactivity.
The trigger to this behaviour may be an event at which sudden violence, unfulfilled expectation or fulfilled expectation – i.e. team win at a sporting event, political success or failure at an election count, occurs.
- One or more people in the crowd instantaneously react, and;
- Other individuals in the crowd respond;
- Either matching the state of the first people to react, or;
- Reacting in a polar opposite manner but with the same intensity;
- Within a matter of seconds (depending on the situation):
- Fear and panic spread, or;
- Violence, and/or;
- Avarice and greed may result in looting, theft, etc.
- This is commonly known as:
- Crowd Behaviour/Mentality or;
- Mob Behaviour/Mentality;
- In the extended animal kingdom (beings other than ‘mankind’) this same type of behaviour is referred to as Pack Mentality
