Outwitted by a dog

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skinnydipper

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Bless her, I think I had low expectations of the big girl. I didn't have her down as a "thinking" dog.

One of the toys she sometimes gets her supper from is a Memory Trainer. She has to press a buzzer and then collect her food from the dispenser. I have gradually increased the distance between buzzer and dispenser- they are now in adjacent rooms. She obviously thought "sod this for a game of soldiers" and now presses the buzzer 2 or 3 times to release more food before making a trip to the dispenser.

Big girl 1, Owner 0.

When the dog door is locked she will rattle the keys with her nose to let me know she needs to go out.

My last dog would go and nudge his harness and look at me expectantly if I was getting ready to go out "don't forget me, Mrs"

What has your dog taught himself that has surprised you?
 
The Rottweiler that we had to pts in the summer loved to jump on to a hay bale near the washing whirligig and take the pegs off it, it took me a while to wo
rk out why I kept finding items of clean washing lying in the yard.

Her sister,, who is still with us, took it upon herself when I came home from A&E with a boot on my broken foot and a pair of crutches, to circle to make sure that there was a pathway for me to get to my usual seat and then walked backwards to show me the route I needed to take.


We had a JRT who did not like to be confined, so one day she jumped on the bumper of a car parked in the yard, then onto the bonnet, up the windscreen, onto the car roof, from there onto the stable roof, which is quite low there, over the stable roof, onto the field wall at the other side and away! We didn't think that she was clever but she showed us on that occasion!
 
My sable male is the smartest dog I've ever owned. If he gets hot playing ball he jumps in the bathtub when we come inside so that I can hose him down. He "talks" to me when he wants something. I ask him if he wants to go out or something to eat. He either runs to the door or goes into the kitchen and looks up at the cupboards or the counter. If he knows we have baby carrots he goes to the refrigerator.
 
The seemingly adoring morning routine of hoping up on the bed for a proper cuddle, with pointy nose lovingly tucked under my ear.

Then the astonished 'Oh, you're awake! How nice. You may as well get up now, and feed me!'

I think my training is coming on a treat, after nearly 10 years :rolleyes:
 
Thought I had dog proofed the field so they could run in it without risk of escape. The little Lurcher worked out if she got on top of the muck heap she could jump off the back and out of the field and off she goes wherever she wants.
 
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