Dogs often DO have more sense than human beings. I have trained and worked with several guide and service dogs. It amazes me how they pick up traffic-flow cues and make decisions about safety. What amazes me more is that it's hard to get a 5 year old or a some rich CEO (with, supposedly, far better reasoning skills than a Golden Retriever) to do the same thing. We can train service dogs to do laundry, to open doors, to pick up pennies from the floor... we can teach them to guide a blind person, safely, through a busy city. We teach them to be mindful of emergency vehicles (both by the sound they make and the lights) because they are unpredictable, in doggy terms. It's the one thing that "trumps" a green light or a walk signal. Most of our trainees pick this up quickly! Too bad humankind is too dense to get it, sometimes. Good for the pooch, I say. He's probably sitting there thinking: "And this is why, silly humans, there will come a day when we will rule over your kind..." ;) Elly (and her service dog, Pirate. Yarr.)