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Originally Posted by tessa_s212
Greanleaf--I believe that you missed this post of mine.
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No, that just reinforces my side. You guys are intermixing instinct with intelligence, basing a dog's intelligence on his ability to work. By saying conformation breeders breed the dog's working ability out (i.e. will/instinct to work) and by claiming that dogs from conformation breeders are subsequently "dumber", that just proves that you ARE basing intelligence on instinct.
The point is you can't gain or lose intelligence through selective breeding, no matter what purpose the dog is being bred for. The reason for that is because intelligence cannot be defined to one single sentence or paragraph. Do the SAT's prove one's intelligence? Academically, they quite effectively show how much "knowledge" you acquired and how well you can apply those concepts. But do they prove one's intelligence? No! You can't base a dog's intelligence, or any animal, through one field. If intelligence was so black and white (field Vs. show), do you really think we'd have all these conflicts regarding the usefullness of tests and similar criteria to "prove" one's intelligence?
Your initial quote said that conformation bred dogs are less intelligent because they weren't bred to work. So have you now just proved that construction workers are more intelligent that rocket scientists?