yellowlabsrule Posted January 2, 2003 Posted January 2, 2003 Ranking of Dogs for Obedience/Working Intelligence by Breed Based on a dog trainer's survey. Ranks 1 to 10 Brightest Dogs Understanding of New Commands: Less than 5 repetitions. Obey First Command: 95% of the time or better. Rank Breed 1 Border Collie 2 Poodle 3 German Shepherd 4 Golden Retriever 5 Doberman Pinscher 6 Shetland Sheepdog 7 Labrador Retriever 8 Papillon 9 Rottweiler 10 Australian Cattle Dog Ranks 11 to 26 Excellent Working Dogs Understanding of New Commands: 5 to 15 repetitions. Obey First Command: 85% of the time or better. Rank Breed 11 Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) 12 Miniature Schnauzer 13 English Springer Spaniel 14 Belgian Tervuren 15 Schipperke Belgian Sheepdog 16 Collie Keeshond 17 German Shorthaired Pointer 18 Flat-Coated Retriever English Cocker Spaniel Standard Schnauzer 19 Brittany 20 Cocker Spaniel 21 Weimaraner 22 Belgian Malinois Bernese Mountain Dog 23 Pomeranian 24 Irish Water Spaniel 25 Vizsla 26 Cardigan Welsh Corgi Ranks 27 to 39 Above Average Working Dogs Understanding of New Commands: 15 to 25 repetitions. Obey First Command: 70% of the time or better Rank Breed 27 Chesapeake Bay Retriever Puli Yorkshire Terrier 28 Giant Schnauzer 29 Airedale Terrier Bouvier Des Flandres 30 Border Terrier Briard 31 Welsh Springer Spaniel 32 Manchester Terrier 33 Samoyed 34 Field Spaniel Newfoundland Australian Terrier American Staffordshire Terrier Gordon Setter Bearded Collie 35 Cairn Terrier Kerry Blue Terrier Irish Setter 36 Norwegian Elkhound 37 Affenpincher Silky Terrier Miniature Pinscher English Setter Pharaoh Hound Clumber Spaniel 38 Norwich Terrier 39 Dalmatian Ranks 40 to 54 Average Working/Obedience Intelligence Understanding of New Commands: 25 to 40 repetitions. Obey First Command: 50% of the time or better. Rank Breed 40 Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier Bedlington Terrier Fox Terrier (Smooth) 41 Curly-Coated Retriever Irish Wolfhound 42 Kuvasz Australian Shepherd 43 Saluki Finnish Spitz Pointer 44 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel German Wirehaired Pointer Black & Tan Coonhound American Water Spaniel 45 Siberian Husky Bichon Frise English Toy Spaniel 46 Tibetan Spaniel Foxhound (English) Otterhound Foxhound (American) Greyhound Wirehaired Pointing Griffon 47 West Highland White Terrier Scottish Deerhound 48 Boxer Great Dane 49 Dachshund Stafforshire Bull Terrier 50 Alaskan Malamute 51 Whippet Chinese Shar-pei Fox Terrier (Wire) 52 Rhodesian Ridgeback 53 Ibizan Hound Welsh Terrier Irish Terrier 54 Boston Terrier Akita Ranks 55 to 69 Fair Working/Obedience Intelligence Understanding of New Commands: 40 to 80 repetitions. Obey First Command: 30% of the time or better. Rank Breed 55 Skye Terrier 56 Norfolk Terrier Sealyham Terrier 57 Pug 58 French Bulldog 59 Brussels Griffon Maltese 60 Italian Greyhound 61 Chinese Crested 62 Dandie Dinmont Terrier Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen Tibetan Terrier Japanese Chin Lakeland Terrier 63 Old English Sheepdog 64 Great Pyrenees 65 Scottish Terrier Saint Bernard 66 Bull Terrier 67 Chihuahua 68 Lhasa Apso 69 Bullmastiff Ranks 70 to 79 Lowest Degree of Working/Obedience Intelligence Understanding of New Commands: 80 to 100 repetitions or more. Obey First Command: 25% of the time or worse. Rank Breed 70 Shih Tzu 71 Basset Hound 72 Mastiff Beagle 73 Pekingese 74 Bloodhound 75 Borzoi 76 Chow Chow 77 Bulldog 78 Basenji 79 Afghan Hound Quote
yellowlabsrule Posted January 2, 2003 Author Posted January 2, 2003 Hint: If you don't want to look through all the names to find your and you DON"T have a Mac hit Ctrl and F at the same time, then type in your breed or part of your breed and hit find next. Quote
DogPaddle Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Hmmm - Kavik #1, Tir half #3 and half #50. Does that make Tir #26 1/2 or a wild card? His colouring is GSD, and he's exceedingly stubborn, I think he must have got the Malamute brain :lol: Quote
bk_blue Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Yay, both bits of BK are in the top 10 (#1 and #10). Now I wish he would use his intelligence in less destructive and sneaky ways... :-? :roll: :wink: Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 Odyssius ranked 9 Adonnis ranked 5 Trace ranked 34 although i dont really believe that most of the APBTs i have seen are actually really good in OB, and have a great drive too. Oh well, WE Quote
gooeydog Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 newfiemom napisał(a):could it be like individual people have different apptitudes and intelligence? I wonder if dogs are like that. That's what I was thinking... or maybe it's something to do with different types of training? What I mean by that is that some dogs are known to be very soft with people, so if force training was used, they would likely shut down and be viewed as "difficult" or untrainable. And if they were using positive methods, some dogs could be very hard to motivate. Those dogs would also be viewed as "difficult". Also, the amount of dogs in each "sample" of the breeds may have varied, causing some bias in them (ie: there are a ton of labs in obedience competitions, whereas you don't see many chis in obedience) Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 :lol: :lol: Everyone look where my poor Forest is ranked!!! :o I note that do doing things in their own time!! :lol: :lol: Quote
Daisysmom Posted January 3, 2003 Posted January 3, 2003 All three of my girls are in the top ten! Daisy is a lab, Trixie is a sheltie/shepard, and Chelsea is a Golden Retriever/Lab. Quote
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