# Thoughts about training an "intelligent" dog

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-about-training-an-intelligent-dog/928340 "2020-12-18T15:05:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-about-training-an-intelligent-dog/928340/21 "2020-12-19T14:19:11Z")

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It is funny that folk mention dolphins - my wife figured out how to get the dog to fetch the paper after we saw a dolphin show at the local paper. And that guy who wrote those “Bedlam Farm” books talks about dogs having to “work” for everything.

I think I’m just missing the golden nature, and how easy they were to train a dog to act the way I like a dog to act. I fear I am likely too lazy to want to put in the effort to learn a new way of training for this dog. So he’ll end up being a pretty good dog, but not what I’ve so enjoyed in my past goldens.

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