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Old 04-January-2008, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Doodler View Post
Yeah, this sounds like a time before the puppy farms took off. That's only been in, what, the last 20 years?
Snoopy came from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, and that strip got started in the '50s. I don't know if it said that early that it was where he was from, but it was pretty early in the strip, anyway.

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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.
Actually, it's more the relative size of brain to body mass, as I understand it. Yes, your cats--and mine--are smarter than greyhounds but have smaller heads. But it's not by as much as their bodies are smaller than a greyhound's.
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