I'm going to assume this wasn't sarcasm.
Your post is evidence that you fail biology forever. And here's why.
Mr.Mattress said:
I think that dog's are getting smarter. They fit all the genetic criteria: They eat meat (Which, against what Veggitarians believe, Evolutionists believe that meat increases brain power)
This is because meat contains more usable energy per weight unit than plants do. If you can acquire and eat the energy you require for a full day in a few hours instead of a dozen, that leaves quite a bit of free time for you. Time which you won't be forced out of necessity to use to forage for food. That means time for innovation, time for social actions with your group, time to breed and time to improve other facets of your life: like, saying... gathering more food and storing it for tomorrow, trying to figure out if a sharper stone just might be better for cutting that meat etc.
All this means that your decendants will suddenly benefit from better memory, from better language as they teach and are taught things verbally and by example, better ability to show you feelings by your facial muscles suddenly is more important, as the socializing between group members increases. And those who have these traits, will be more likely to succesfully reproduce. And so on.
Eating meat does not directly implicate intelligence, but it does give the species a greater possibility to use intelligence and related factors for greater effect. Which in turn increases the need for intelligent children, and from those intelligent children the least intelligent ones are culled away by natural forces or they are not as likely to reproduce.
they are begining to like the little dresses they wear A.K.A. Social Clothing,
Which is not made by them, but rather forced on them by the arbitary decisions of their masters. Because the dogs themselves do not make the choice, clothing does not increase their chance to reproduce and thus the trait of liking vs not liking the clothing forced on them is not an evolutionary factor: Whatever genetic liking the puppies might have had for bright and colourful clothing will not help them mate as they grow up.
and they know what's right and wrong.
Most social animals on this planet have some form of the Golden Rule within them. The reason for this is quite simple: in a social setting, like a pack, altruism and looking for the common good before looking for individual gain lead to better survivability for the group. Thus the group that works best together, is the most likely to survive. Thus genes for natural co-operation and for the basics of empathy get selected for by natural selective pressure.
There are cases where monkeys within zoos, who cannot swim, have jumped into a moat to save another animal that also could not swim. In other words, they have risked drowning themselves in an attempt to help another drowning animal. A species of chimps was once fitted with remote-controlled collars. The feeding station within their cage was then fitted with a pulley system: pull the cord, food drops out,
but another member of the pack, never the one pulling the cord, suffered a small but painful electric shock via the collar. The result: within days the entire pack was starving themselves, living off with the minimal amount of food required. The individuals that tried to get food without pack approval were forcefully stopped and then ostracized. In other words: self-administered group punishment for those who refused to follow the rules the pack had set.
For a social animal, behavior like this, or a more primitive form of this, is pretty much the norm. And dogs are pack animals.
My dog is a genius. He knows when it's time for his desert.
Not to rain on your parade, but ever heard of Pavlov's dogs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning#Pavlov.27s_experiment
In addition, even cockroaches have a rudimentary sense of time, as do some sea-animals that are inherently blind...
He eats a veriety of foods.
A dragonfly is an insect that eats just about anything that they find in abundance. That is not a sign of intelligence, but rather of the ability to feel hunger.
He notices when something goes wrong (Or at least looks that way).
Just a sign of the basic intelligence that has been there from the time dogs were not yet a tamed subspecies of wolves. Wolves have almost frightening intelligence, as most likely did the animal wolves evolved from.
I'm not saying your dog is not intelligent: he/she/it likely is. But so is almost every single other dog. Nothing special there. Nothing new either, that level of intelligence has been there in the genome for a
long time.
He is loyal and friendly.
Basic behaviour for any pack animal: the members of the designated pack are to be protected and looked after, just as they protect and look after it. If the humans follow this rule, dogs are indeed among the most loyal pets out there. But if the human owner mistreats the dog, the result is quite different.
also read a story today about how a dog tried to drive a car (Probobly accidently though, he hit a building), and I've seen numuroes videos where dogs can sound like they're talking.
*Facepalm*.
Meet Riley The Amazing Talking Parrot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMx10BUgzEM
I think that dogs are evolving into the next Human-like race. Could it be we're pampering them to be the next Humans?
Even if you were joking, you still fail biology forever. And neither real nor pretended ignorance is ever funny, only pitiful.
