In today's video my guide dog Zenith takes an IQ test to find out how smart he really is. We had a ton of fun filming this video, and I hope you have just as much fun watching! If you do this test on your dog, be sure to let me know your score in comments!

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- Test 1- Zenith sits, and I throw a blanket over him. He stands up and moves his head around and paws at the blanket to get it off. Then when I'm reading the scoring guidelines Zenith sniffs the camera lens with his wet nose, so the footage is a little blurry for the next few minutes.
- Test 2- I put a treat on the floor and ball up his blanket and put it on top of the treat. Zenith sniffs the blanket to locate the treat, then he moves the blanket off of the treat with his face, and eats the treat. Then he goes back and sniffs the blanket in hopes that there are more treats hidden in it, but of course, there are not.
- Test 3- I lay out three opaque paper cups on the floor and put a treat under the one on the far left while Zenith watches. Zenith wants to go right to the cups, but I distract him for a few seconds first by playing with him. Naturally, he tries to sit on me and ends up knocking me over and sitting on my chest. He's so goofy! Then when I tell him he can explore the cups, he sniffs them all, then knocks over the middle cup with his nose, which is empty. Next he knocks over the cup with the treat, but does not notice the treat is there, and he does a lap around the room. Once he goes back to the cups, he sees the exposed treat on the floor from the cup he knocked over and eats it.
- Test 4- Zenith sniffs the bottom of the desk and immediately tries to put his head under it, but his head does not fit. He keeps trying to put his head under again and again even though it does not work. He goes to a different side of the desk and tries to put his head under, but it still does not work. He puts his paw under the desk once, but then goes right back to trying to shove his head under. Zenith gave up and went and got his lambchop toy. Next, he checks to see if there is a treat under the chair next to the desk for no apparent reason. Zenith paces around the room with his lambchop.
- Test 5- The box is laying on its side with the bottom of the box perpendicular to the floor. The long side of the rectangular box is going up perpendicular to the floor, with the short side parallel to the floor. The top flap to open the box is taped to be straight up in the air so the box is as tall as possible, and the side flaps are going out at an angle to keep the box standing up. There is a hole that is just slightly smaller than Zenith's head cut towards the top of what would be the bottom of the box, but with the way the box is positioned, it is about two feet in the air like a little window. Zenith sits on one side of the box, and I sit on the other. I lure him through the hole with a treat, but he quickly realizes that he will not fit through the hole and goes around the box to get the treat instead.
- Test 4 take 2- Zenith sniffs the chair and isn't sure what to do at first. He goes to the side of the chair and tries to put his head under to get the treat. He then decides to just go for it and puts his head under the chair, using his body weight to slid his whole head under the chair, which ends up lifting the chair. He basically just dives under and forces his whole body under the chair even though it does not fit.