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By Doug Gross
CNN

(CNN) — Your dog may not actually be smarter than somebody’s honor student — popular bumper stickers aside. But your canine companion might well be smarter than their toddler, according to a growing body of research on how dogs think.

Breeds like hounds rank near the bottom of surveys on dog intelligence.

Using adapted tests designed for human children, psychologists have learned that average dogs can count, reason and recognize words and gestures on par with a human 2 -year-old.