Daily Downers Exclusive Rocks New York Times

A few days ago, on January 8th, I released an exclusive here on Daily Downers about the fact that dogs can actually think. So today, the slowpoke New York Times finally woke up and printed the same exact story. Of course they don't explicitly acknowledge Daily Downers, but come on, where do you think this came from? Just some article floating around for days and someone at the Times finally decides to print it? I don't think so.

This is a coded message, letting me know I'm right, wink wink, but don't tell anyone. Sweet vindication. It's camoflauged in here I tell you, an article about a dog doing a trick. Don't believe it. The trick is hiding their intelligence behind a wagging tail for hundreds of years, biding their time. Waiting to strike! Or bite!

Who knows what really lurks in the hearts of these dogs? Are they just sucking up because they want another meal? They really hate us, right? They call them "man's best friend" but if they can do a "Heil Hitler" salute and smile God only knows what they'll get into when they finally take over.

The case of the businessman who taught his dog to raise his paw at the command “Hitler” may never go down in the annals of Third Reich history as consequential, but it has given people here a reason to laugh, not at the nation’s sinister deeds but at those who were responsible.

It was 1941, shortly before the invasion of the Soviet Union, and an anonymous source tipped off the Nazi authorities: A businessman named Tor Borg, of Tampere, Finland — a country that was friendly to the Nazis but not occupied by the Reich — had a black-and-white spotted dog that he taught to mock Hitler. The German vice consul in Helsinki, Willy Erkelenz, wrote that “a witness, who does not want to be named, said he saw and heard how Borg’s dog reacted to the command ‘Hitler’ by raising its paw.”

“This is a funny story, but it is a Nazi story which tells how they were looking for enemies everywhere,” said Mr. Hillenbrand, who is also the longtime managing editor of the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung.

[The New York Times]