Just how intelligent is an Afghan?
A current and popular book caused great consternation for Afghan owners around the world when it rated the Afghan dead last in its “working intelligence” list. Working intelligence has nothing whatever to do with the actual “smartness” of any breed. Those breeds developed to work closely with man will, of course, be more amenable to training than the clever Afghan, whose job was to tackle dangerous prey on his own, relying on his own wits to see him through to live and hunt another day.
