英語リスニング - 本文
One of our dogs at home,he used to go walking with my granddad, and it was on these old countryroads, so very quite really, not many cars would pass so the dog, Jonathan,used to run off in front of my granddad and my granddad's hearing wasn'ttoo good at that time, he was already quite old, so he wouldn't alwayshear cars coming, so every time a car was coming, the dog would, Jonathanwould come running back to my granddad so that, and he did this everytime a car came so my granddad knew that if Jonathan came running backtowards him, he knew that he had to stand in closer to the edge of theroad so that, you know, he wouldn't be in danger of being knocked downby a car or anything because those old country roads, you know whenI was younger, we used to walk in the middle of the road, or you know,not quite by the edge, cause there were so few cars, you didn't reallyneed to keep by the edge and there were no foot paths along the side,so you were just walking along the edge of the road, so he was a reallyclever dog in he could alert my granddad, you know to whether a carwas coming or not.
I think most dogs arevery intelligent. I've met some people who say their dog is a bit stupidbut I don't believe that really. I think most dogs are quite intelligent,even if they're not really good guard dogs, you know, some dogs aren'tgood guard dogs. They don't bark enough when strangers come or somethinglike that, but I still think they're probably very intelligent, andeven if they're not, they're probably very affectionate, which is aplus definitely. It's almost as good as having a really intelligentguard dog I think.