<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0dfdf445-cabb-4ce4-86af-fc45ab177761/BC9B0DCF-CF22-460B-81DD-046882FD1147/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Good Dog, Smart Dog </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/1C7A50E9-4EB6-4DBA-8CDC-776CBB445CD4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#"><P>Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#">He is both a <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Generalized tonic-clonic seizure." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/generalized-tonic-clonic-seizure/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">seizure</A> alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Epilepsy." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/epilepsy/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">epilepsy</A>, severe <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Stress and anxiety." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/stress-and-anxiety/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">anxiety</A>, <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Depression (Mental)." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/depression/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">depression</A>, various <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Phobia - simple/specific." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/phobia-simplespecific/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">phobias</A> and <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Hypoglycemia." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/hypoglycemia/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">hypoglycemia</A>. Jet has been trained to anticipate <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Seizures." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/seizures/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">seizures</A>, <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Panic disorder." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/panic-disorder/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">panic attacks</A> and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a fall. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#"><P>Jet seems like a genius, but is he really so smart? In fact, is any of it in his brain, or is it mostly in his sniff? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/weekinreview/01kershaw.html?em#">The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog is a tricky one, and until recently much of the research on canine intelligence has been met with large doses of skepticism.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BC9B0DCF-CF22-460B-81DD-046882FD1147/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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