The more I know about people, the more I appreciate my dog.
This is difficult to accept when our dog eats poop.
Pooch ping
Those dogs played them for suckers. Everyone knows dogs do anything for treats.
Wow, Gary Larson was right.
Our three dogs understand everything we say. They just don’t always agree with it.
My new dog is from a shelter, a mixed breed (terrier and we think German Sheppard or maybe some kind of hound). We have had him since June and we think he is about a year old (give or take a month or two). He is sort of medium (around 55 lbs or so). Really a sweet, people person dog. He (w/o us wanting him too) has mastered our original kitchen trash can (it was cheap and plastic and had a tab you hit on the top and the lid popped up). He openned it w/his nose...So I got a new one, before Thanksgiving. An expensive metal one, called a Bullet. It has a foot pedal. Well, he’s learned to hit that w/his paw (after watching us I guess...we have only had it about two weeks). When he knows he’s ‘caught’ he turns head to the side and looks like he’s saying ‘who me?’
Yes, my dog mimics me all the time -— yesterday I caught him mounting a bitch in heat on my front lawn...at least I have the decency to invite them inside first.
Just the other night, my dog showed abstract reasoning capabilities -- my son was training him to find things, and invariably the first place he went to look was to the last place he'd found stuff.
Dogs can count...Get out 3 treats and only give them 2..
Dogs are very good with inanimate representations...I figured out my lab pups were too big for me to walk tandem any more when they pulled me across a neighbors lawn to visit with the concrete Collie lawn ornament.
My big Lab swung wide and barked at the concrete lion in anothers lawn...
and she has never met a lion or a collie....
Love those pics, and those of your dogs. Wish we had a ‘dog pinger’ here on FR! Here’s one I posted a couple days ago:
“Dear God - From the Dog:”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930989/posts?page=22#22
doggie ping
Hi blam. I love your dogs.
I see these people have met my cattle dog, Peaches. You have to be careful with this one. She can figure out what you are doing.
Research is getting WAY too easy these days...
Name is BUDDY but he's dead, now, and they gave his cat friend away...
Ping!
IOW, I once had an Afghan Hound that was dumber than an inbred snail and I was barely able to teach him basic commands. I rarely observed evidence of much original thought or obvious associations in him. Now with my GS/Border Collie mix, she was not only easily trained, she early on demonstrated she could learn cause and effect connections independently of my training. I'm talking small stuff here like understanding that when I go to a certain room in the house and drag out luggage that I'm leaving for some time, to which she becomes quite agitated. And she has been known to stow away, or at least make an attempt, in my car. The Afghan was simply never was able to put 2 and 2 together. This was tragically revealed when he failed to learn that cars are much bigger and likely to cause great harm if not avoided.
