Dogs succeed while chimps fail at following finger pointing

Ever since we watched Inside the Mind of a Dog, Sparky has been telling everyone that he’s smarter than a monkey because they said that dogs understand human pointing, and primates don’t. 

There are times when I suspect that Sparky is stretching the truth.  To start the new year off right, I challenged Sparky to demonstrate that he understands human pointing.  It took some training, but he is getting the idea.