Complex door or detour/ purebred dogs

In this experiment, various dog breeds from the independent or cooperative type were tested in a spatial task. Dogs had to negotiate a straight, transparent barrier either by detouring it around, or by using a shortcut across. The shortcut was a door, adjusted in its size to the dog's height. We used either a comfortably large, or an inconveniently small door. Half of the dog participants could also observe as a human demonstrator showed how to detour the obstacle. The Excel file contains the dogs' basic data as well as the behavioral variables we used for the statistical analysis.