My dog is (well, was) smarter than YOURS Doggie Ping!
Our Bichon Frise is a great dog EXCEPT you have to keep him out of the cat’s litter box. He thinks its a lunch wagon. Yuckkkkkk!!
Folks mistake smart for being able to pick up commands. It reminds me of a story about ants. A dead ant gives out a smell of formic acid. The ant colony would diligently bury an ant that smelt of formic acid. Folks thought of this to mean ants know death and could comprehend the attendant diseases that would spread in the colony due to a dead body. But when the scientists poured formic acid on live ants, the other ants would carry them off to the grave and bury them kicking and screaming! Smart should be exclusively reserved for acts show the ability to put two things together to arrive at a conclusion. For dogs I prefer easily trainable.
Not mine. My dog is a dumb as a box of rocks.
When he is on his run he only knows how to go counter clockwise around the trees the run is strung between. Drives me nuts.
He rarely ever untangles himself. He just stands there and barks until I come and get him.