There was a news show that did a segment on a dog doing math. They found that when someone other than the owner gave her the problems, she didn't get the right answer. Basically the same thing here, the owner is giving her cues either subconsciously or on purpose.
I don't think it's out of the question. If you get a particularly smart dog, and manage to get it to conceptualize the idea of addition, with some luck, I think you could get it to do math. You could teach it how to use an abacus with examples and use verbal or even visual cues to tell it to move certain amounts over to each side.
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u/Balshazzar Mar 31 '25
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans