Puck (my 3 year old boxer/terrier mix, looks like sort of a smallish faux brindle wolfhound) got 94 with 2 bonus points
Bean (my sister’s 14 month old westie) got 78 and 3 bonus points
Hekmatollah (my 3 year old cat from Baghdad, short hair but NOT domestic) got 88
Mouse (my 2 year old domestic gray long hair who has the dumb blond wide-eyed look down pat) got 80
I got 100 on canine and 120 on feline because my brain is a magpie nest full of odd stuff

Hekmatollah only turns on the water in the bathroom if I put my clean clothes on the sink while I’m taking a shower.

Schnauzer - I had a cat, Beauford (we found him abandoned in McKinley Park, Sacramento, the same place we found one dog and two other cats that we adopted) who didn’t have enough brains to fill a thimble, but he was the sweetest cat ever. He loved all dogs, cats and people. He used to sleep in the street gutter and the sprinkler runoff water would back up behind him and he wouldn’t even notice. The dogs would drag him across the hardwood floor by his tail and he thought it was fun. He would hang with your fingers under his armpits and let you spin him in circles (head-over-tail) completely relaxed thinking it was great. He died many years ago and I miss him still. He would have scored the minimum possible on the cat quiz, but Hekmatollah (who scored quite highly) would often rather disembowel me than cuddle. Since Hek was feral and spent his infancy in Baghdad dumpsters being bombed and shot at, I don’t blame him at all. Hek likes me and Beauford loved me. I loved Beuford, and admire Hek. Brains have nothing to do with love in either direction.

She has an ugly ear infection right now, or else I’d try it.

It can be a tad scary at times. ;-)

He is a great dog, one of the smartest creatures I know. But I think that as a pet he’d be a bad choice for most people. A dog that can and does open any door he thinks needs open, a dog who fears nothing is a handfull. Thank Dog he doesn’t have thumbs and is too short to see over the steering wheel and reach the gas…

When I’m talking to people who tell me they are looking for a smart dog, I always try to find out if they mean a smart dog or a trainable dog. Two very different things.

My friend has a border collie who is both. He’s quite a handfull too. Her lab, bless her, is trainable, but not very smart dhr will spend hours sitting in a room with a door slightly ajar, unable?(unwilling??) to push it open wide enough to go through (a good choice for novice dog owners)

My Ace who was neither easily trainable nor smart was far and away the “best” sort of dog for a Joe Public dog owner.(And the most loving dog to walk the earth) He never got out of a pen you put him in, because it never dawned on him he could, he never got into things that were “out of reach” ditto. He didn’t fret about scary things like visits to the vet. Just thrilled to get to go. Once he learned something, which to a lot of reps, he had it. But it was not quick. He was loving and sweet, my little “Down’s syndrom” doggie. I enjoyed your quiz, don’t get me wrong, but… I’d really love to see more information about the joys of sharing your life with a Forest Gump kinda guy.

Katie

PS Thanks Gina, that was fun!

One of our other late lamented kitties had a heart condition, which we didn’t realize until she died. :( We were playing with one of those “cat fishing poles”—toy on a string. She watched the other cats play for awhile. You could see the eyes—toy, string, pole, string—and the little gears turning in her head. Then she grabbed the string and used it to take the toy from her sister! :)