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Originally Posted by Maksutov
I guess I was lucky. We had a Dalmation when I was growing up during the 1950s. She was a great, smart dog. Must have been born before the inbreeding started. When she got so old that she had to be killed at the local "shelter" it was the only time I saw my father display some kind of emotion other than anger.
Here's what she looked like:
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Yeah, this sounds like a time before the puppy farms took off. That's only been in, what, the last 20 years?
As for head size and intelligence, I would hesitate to draw too many links there. My cats are pretty bright, and they're smaller than a greyhound. Its less the size of the brain than it is the efficiency of what's crammed in there.