This is my dog thinking"OH MY GOD! PEE!!!!!"
Posted on 10/28/2006 2:29:38 PM PDT by shrinkermd
From the day they brought her home, the D'Avellas' black-and-white mutt loathed ringing phones. At the first trill, Jay Dee would bolt from the room and howl until someone picked up. But within a few weeks, the D'Avellas began missing calls: When the phone rang, their friends later told them, someone would pick up and then the line would go dead.
One evening, Aida D'Avella solved the mystery. Sitting in the family room of her Newark, N.J., home, Ms. D'Avella got up as the phone rang, but the dog beat her to it. Jay Dee ran straight to the ringing phone, lifted the receiver off the hook in her jaws, replaced it and returned contentedly to her spot on the rug
...Ethologists, the scientists who study animal behavior, have amassed thousands of studies showing that animals can count, understand cause and effect, form abstractions, solve problems, use tools and even deceive. But lately scientists have gone a step further: Researchers around the world are providing tantalizing evidence that animals not only learn and remember but that they may also have consciousness -- in other words, they may be capable of thinking about their thoughts and knowing that they know.
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Well, my late cat was always setting himself on a newspaper in the proper direction to the page - never sideways and never upside down. From which it is obvious that he was literate, in no fewer than three languages, to boot. What he could find in these nespapers, though, remains a mystery.
There are some mules I would trust to vote before quite a few Democrats.
Mules are smart. They will not carry a load that is too heavy. They will not work when they are too tired, nor drink water that is too cold, nor eat too much food.
On the other hand, they will jump outside their stall, eat the grass there, then jump back inside, and do it when they can't see where they are landing.
nespapers = newspapers
Nonetheless, the fact that he bought into the MSM's propaganda is real cause to question his intelligence...
It matters if the pug spoons with you.
Pugsley occasionally decides he's not a pug but rather that he's a hat. This usually occurs sometime around 5:30 am and coincides with his peak snoring time.
It's rather like having a 30 pound low volume chainsaw installed in ones occipital bone.
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Well, he was only a cat, after all. Even many so-called humans fall for it.
I don't see why it's considered a trouble.
Can you possibly stretch something out to be political, any further?
This is my dog thinking"OH MY GOD! PEE!!!!!"
My own mutt, reportedly a poodle/daschund, could figure out fairly complicated problems. I could tell her to get the ball and bring it to me. I could also tell her to get the ball and take it to someone else with a name that she was familiar with and one of perhaps a dozen such names. She could follow those instructions. I watched her check out a sandwich that my boy had left on a chair in the kitchen. She checked all the approaches-3 doorways, then went around and apparently checked where everyone was then ran in one doorway, snatched the sandwich, and exited another doorway. She met my son who was arriving on his bicycle and he said she stopped and looked at him for a second, looked around, then dropped the sandwich at his feet and begged.One time she was excavating a tunnel under our back fence. When she was allowed out to play with the children in the front she went to the spot where she had been digging and began digging toward her excavation from the other side of the fence.
#7 I believe it. Animals know kindness and love.
It's been said that people give off a scent that animals can use to help judge the person and their intentions. Their senses are typically keener than those of a human.
Pretty conclusive.
I don't have a problem with liberals, everyone should have one, in a cage, where it can't hurt anyone.
LOL. Every dog I've ever had thought he/she was a "four leg people". They are amazing animals.
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