# World's DUMBEST Dog! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-dumbest-dog/314379 "2005-07-27T08:24:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-dumbest-dog/314379/81 "2005-07-28T22:24:37Z")
My sister works with sled dogs a lot, and they’re every bit as good for repeated hits as terriers, rotties, or pretty much any other breed. There’s no real predicting which dogs are gonna get quilled again and again, until it happens. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-dumbest-dog/314379/82 "2005-07-29T03:27:43Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > I think this is a big ol’ stumbling block of anthropomorphism. This particular breed of dog is known for having (and was bred to have) an incredibly high pain tolerance. This means they literally feel pain differently to you or me. Whatever pain the dog was feeling it obviously didn’t stop it from going in for seconds (or thirds, it looks like) and it’s standing there calmly despite the pincushion imitation. This is good to know! I don’t think the picture is, as they say, “funny ha-ha”, but I’ll admit it is a type of funny that I am inventing right now that we will call “funny whoa, that’s so exaggerated it could be from a cartoon only it’s real”. Hope this dog never runs into another porcupine! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-dumbest-dog/314379.md?page=4)