The Smartest Dog Breeds
From what I have read over the last decade, research on dog intelligence has reached a consensus regarding the smartest breeds and studies consistently list these 5 within the top tier:
1. Border collie
2. Poodle
3. German shepherd
4. Golden retriever
5. Doberman pinscher
Not to cast any aspersions, but Poodles are the surprise here. This research defined "smart" as: those breeds "who tend to learn a new command in less than five exposures and obey at least 95 percent of the time."
