Posted on 01/26/2017 11:09:29 AM PST by blam
... still laughing...
My miniature schnoodle is pretty darn smart. She has me well trained, anyway.
I agree on the afghans being at the bottom. We had one in our neighborhood when I was in high school. Scheherazade would plop herself down in the middle of the street and not move for anything, including honking. She did have one trick, though. She followed the paper boy (my little brother) and collected and hid the papers he delivered.
The Brown logging family would disagree- them other watched out her window as their rottie mauled their 4 year old daughter to death
Pups are smart..the pill must smell really bad otherwise they would probably take it(Especially if you mix it with food) it doesn’t really help him much..we were hoping the teeth cleaning would have helped somewhat but it didnt..but when he came home he was absolutely perfect on Monday, not one cough, thought heck we found the cure, but the next morning he was coughing again..not sure what they gave him to relax him but whatever did it that is what he needs
LOL.........you’re right! I demand a recount.....I didn’t see Pugs on there......(but just between you and me they don’t deserve to be on the list......they mind when they want to) but they sure make up for it by being so darn loving and sweet.........;)
I notice Chihuahuas are not on the list, ha ha.
My granddaughter just got a Golden Retriever, she’s only 3 months old and smart as can be...my Chihuahua hates her.
My border collie, Barney was theeee smartest dog ever. Once I had him fully trained to my liking, he never saw a leash again. He spent a good deal of the day on the front porch watching people passing by. And if I had a frisbee in my hand? A dozen squirrels could dance in a circle around him and he wouldn’t notice. Barney never barked either. He spoke with his eyes (one brown and one blue) or he groaned in little hushed tones and yips. He would reach out with his paw to grab my arm or leg to get my attention. He knew his left from his right, ran like the wind and could chase down a frisbee as far as I could throw one, get under it and still leap 6 feet in the air to pull it down.
We did many tricks with the frisbee, you’ve seen ‘em all on any Youtube video clip. He would run up my back onto my shoulders, he could do back flips as he snagged the frisbee from my outstretched hand. And the best trick of all... He would carry the frisbee back in the house and put it in his toybox when we were done.
Barney was big for a BC with 65 lbs of solid muscle. Wide-eyed with an unrelenting childlike enthusiasm. And in many respects, before my children were born, he was my child. But Border Collies do need to come with a warning. Do not bring home a BC unless you have plenty of outdoor space and you have the energy to get out there with them a couple of times a day. And you also need to turn them off when they have had enough and need to rest. It’s up to you to determine when that is because they don’t come with an OFF switch.
I would give Barney an occasional large milk bone for a treat and he would take it in his mouth, give me a look like, “okay, turn your head, don’t look”, and then he would go hide it somewhere in the house. Usually in closets or in a load of dirty clothes in the laundry basket. If he saw you getting ready to do the laundry, he would run in and nose through the basket, grab a milk bone and slink back out of the laundry room.
When I got dressed for work in the morning standing at the closet I would always have a pair of eyes watching me. Barney would sit behind me and watch, making sure I didn’t discover his stash. I would step away pretending not to notice and he would wait until I was out of the room and then go into the closet and retrieve a milk bone and head off to another part of the house to hide it again.
Sorry, but all the rest of you are just arguing over second place. Barney was one of a kind. A few weeks after Barney passed away, I was getting dressed one morning and went to slip on a pair of shoes and found a milkbone tucked away in one shoe. My eyes welled up and I sat down on the bed and cried. Greatest dog ever.
ROBITUSSIN Child cough medicine?.....................
Yeah I dont think that would work..not sure but I think there is a chemical in that that could cause tummy problems in our little guy..he has a Vet appt in another week so will see what he says..not sure why he thought getting a teeth cleaning would cure a trachea collapse if it were that simple there would be a line forming to get it done
Yes, my jack russell terrier is deeply offended! She thinks she is in the top 10 :)
Maybe an x-ray would show the dog has swallowed something...............
Greyhound at #46
My first greyhound maybe. He acted just like Santa’s Little Helper.
My current greyhound is much smarter. When he woke me up to go out in the middle of the night I would give him a treat when he came back in. That ended after we wanted to go out every 30 minutes.
All my dogs are mutts and all of them are dumb.
Heck, I think one of them isn’t even from this planet, so I have classified her Pseudocanis Alienus.
Had a cocker spaniel...was getting ready for work...he came in bathroom, and I said “Gus, where is my watch?” My watch had been missing for a few days. I didn’t think much...was just talking....he left....came back a minute later...WITH MY WATCH IN HIS MOUTH! He was so smart the Obedience School people wanted me to show him...but I was there to teach HIM obedience....which he never really wanted to learn...I was always the 3rd pack animal to him.. Gus was first, my husband 2nd, and me 3rd...which is why he tried to bite me AT OBEDIENCE SCHOOL! Gus was something else.
he’s had it for 6 years..common in small breeds
Man it’s fun on here this week. Breedist. You guys are on a roll.
We have a mutt. The mother was border collie and lab. We believe the father was a plott hound.
I’ve had pretty smart dogs through my whole life. This one is the smartest.
Most dogs are smarter than most psychologists. True fact!
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