Adaptive Intelligence: the ability of a canine to learn to do for him/herself, by learning and benefiting from experiences in his or her enviornment and solving new problems within it.

Arrived home a little late the other night to find Dallas trying to open up the doggy gate herself,  hinting to me ever so subtly that it was past her bedtime, and she wanted to go!  She's so smart it scares me, thank goodness she doesn't have thumbs or we'd be in big trouble.