School for Dogs

This was one of those silly little stories that you get pretty much anywhere in the world but god was it stupid. The TV programme showed researchers trying to teach dogs how to read. So far they had managed to get dogs to understand signs that said, sit, roll over, bark and other such things. That's all well and good, clever dogs, but why the heck are you guys wasting time and funding on such things? What possible use can you find from such a task? Do they aim to teach our dogs to read so they can run off somewhere and use their doggy smarts to find a cure for cancer. Crazy, absolutely crazy!