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To: JRandomFreeper
You have to admit, though, no retriever is going to win a Nobel prize for anything more complicated than "Duh...".

'Scuse me! We had to SPELL in front of my (late) female Golden. She was scary smart. She slipped a disc when she was 4 and couldn't do field work anymore. (She lived to 15 1/2) To entertain her, I invented the "bird" game. We kept a duck, or pheasant, wing in the freezer. I would hide it some place in the house, and tell her the "find the bird".

They only way I could stump her was to take the wing upstairs. That confused her. It was hilarious to watch her track my footsteps until she found the wing and brought it back to me. But when I took it upstairs, she'd stand at the bottom of the stairs sniffing the air and looking confused. She'd find it eventually.

She also wanted to cheat. Somebody would have to hold her and cover her eyes while I hid the wing because she'd try to peek around the corner to see where I was going. She was a great dog.

33 posted on 10/30/2012 5:21:51 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
S'ok... I didn't mean that in a bad way.

I had to spell things in front of some of my airmen, too, so I understand. None of them were going to be up for the Nobel, either. ;)

They are cute, enthusiastic, and just smart enough to get into worlds and worlds of trouble if you don't watch them like a hawk. Dogs or the E-2/3s.

/johnny

34 posted on 10/30/2012 5:29:00 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She also wanted to cheat.

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.

She sounds like she was a great dog.

/johnny

36 posted on 10/30/2012 5:50:17 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

She sounds like a wonderful dog. I imagine you have lots of stories.


37 posted on 10/30/2012 9:13:48 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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