Here's one:
When my son was just a baby and on my lap crying because he was hungry and his Mom was upstairs getting his bottle ready. My Shiba Inu came up to my feet looking up at me, and cocked his head and then ran upstairs. He returned moments later with his rubber bone in his mouth. He jumped onto the armrest of the chair and dropped the rubber bone onto the baby’s stomach then jumped down again. It was like he was saying, here Dad, give him my bone, that will get him to stop crying.
My sheltie started bringing her toys to him and practically throwing them at him. I believe she was trying to distract him, get him to play with her, so he would stop yelling at the kids.
Our Buford, the sweetest dog in the world, could think too. We didn’t know that until he was about 5 yrs old and we got a younger, smaller, more dominant dog, Philo.
Buford would eat all his food right away, but Philo would instead stand over his and guard it aggressively. We noticed that Buford soon worked out a plan. He would go to the front door and bark as if someone was there. Philo immediately forgot about guarding his food and ran to the door barking at the non-existent visitor. Buford circled back and wolfed down Philo’s remaining food! This worked time after time. Buford was a cairn terrier/poodle cross and Philo was a pekinese/poodle/yorkie.