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How smart are ferrets compared to dogs?

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Seventeen domestic ferrets were compared in three experiments to sixteen human-raised wild mustelids and eighteen domestic dogs. read more

Dogs are more content with routine behaviours. This suggests to me that ferrets are smarter than dogs. But not smarter than all dogs. There is much more breed disparity in dogs than in ferrets, so I think it comes down to comparing individuals. So, as to that permutation of a Quora intelligence question - they are simply different to each other. read more

ferrets aren't too smart they are just mischievous. they steal and run into things alot. its like comparing a criminal to a normal average person a i guess. Ferrets are good at thievery and hiding and dogs are smart at all kinds of things depending on the dog. Dogs are waaay easier to train too. read more

I have observed that male ferrets are much more intelligent when it comes to getting somewhere, and female when it comes to hiding something. Due to that I have observed male ferrets do insane acts of acrobatics, but have never seen female ferret do anything like that. However I suspect that female ferret was the better acrobat out of the two. read more

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