<![CDATA[<p>Dogs may not smarter than 6-year-olds, but researchers suggest canines might be on par with 2-year-olds.< Psychologist Stanley Coren says, "We do know that dogs understand far more than we credit them with, from about 165 words to 250 words." Even better than understanding our words, dogs know our hand gestures and body postures. Dogs may, in fact, far exceed 2-year-olds when it comes to reading emotions.<BODY><![CDATA[<p>Developmentally, 2-year-olds are generally more interested in themselves, while dogs do care how their people feel, and instantly recognize a change in emotion.< "While your dog can't comprehend that you just received a traffic violation, he can tell that you're upset the second you walk through the door," Coren says. "In fact, dogs can detect some subtle changes which even adults can't," adds Coren. "We can't smell cancer or predict seizures, as dogs can."< When I posted this story on my Facebook Fan page recently (<a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/ Steve-Dale/50057343596?ref=ts">www.new.f acebook.com/pages/Steve-Dale/50057343596?ref=ts, or simply type Steve Dale into the Facebook search), I received some interesting responses:< Kelle: "Heck, my Italian Greyhound is smarter than most college students."< Karen: "Depends on how you define smart. HTML my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new; # empty tree $tree->parse ($html); $tree->eof (); for my $element ($tree->content_list()) { print $element->as

use strict; use warnings; use HTML::TreeBuilder; my $html = <<'HTML'; <![CDATA[<p>Dogs may not smarter than 6-year-olds, but researchers suggest canines might be on par with 2-year-olds.< Psychologist Stanley Coren says, "We do know that dogs understand far more than we credit them with, from about 165 words to 250 words." Even better than understanding our words, dogs know our hand gestures and body postures. Dogs may, in fact, far exceed 2-year-olds when it comes to reading emotions.<BODY><![CDATA[<p>Developmentally, 2-year-olds are generally more interested in themselves, while dogs do care how their people feel, and instantly recognize a change in emotion.< "While your dog can't comprehend that you just received a traffic violation, he can tell that you're upset the second you walk through the door," Coren says. "In fact, dogs can detect some subtle changes which even adults can't," adds Coren. "We can't smell cancer or predict seizures, as dogs can."< When I posted this story on my Facebook Fan page recently (<a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/ Steve-Dale/50057343596?ref=ts">www.new.f acebook.com/pages/Steve-Dale/50057343596?ref=ts, or simply type Steve Dale into the Facebook search), I received some interesting responses:< Kelle: "Heck, my Italian Greyhound is smarter than most college students."< Karen: "Depends on how you define smart. HTML my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new; # empty tree $tree->parse ($html); $tree->eof (); for my $element ($tree->content_list()) { print $element->as_text (), "\n\n"; }