Video is on the site.
Posted on 04/12/2017 4:43:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An intelligent dog in Virginia managed to open multiple doors in an effort to escape from a veterinary hospital.
Aquia-Garrisonville Animal Hospital shared a post stating a 10-year-old Great Pyrenees, named General, had managed to escape from the facility in Stafford at about 4 a.m. Monday morning.
"Last night at 4 am, one of our boarders opened his run door, and managed to open the back door to the clinic to escape," the animal hospital said. "Stafford County animal control and sheriff deputies as well as staff members are looking for him."
Video of the escape shows the clever canine pushing open a door with his nose and using his mouth to turn a doorknob, ultimately opening three doors before making his way out into the hospital's parking lot.
The dog was missing for about seven hours before he was discovered resting in the yard of a home near the animal hospital.
"General has been found!" Aquia-Garrisonville Animal Hospital said in a Facebook post. "According to neighbors he was resting in their yard since 11 a.m. this morning. A huge thanks to all that helped General find his way back safely."
General was eventually reunited with his owner Travis Campbell, who told Fox 5 the behavior was nothing unusual.
"He is very special," Campbell said. "He is a smart dog. Getting out of doors, in a door is nothing new. I told them that when we dropped him off, but never had a problem getting out of any place that boarded him before."
The daring dog was generally unharmed after his romp around town, apart from a scratch on his nose that he likely sustained practicing his escape.
"Basically, he spent a night and a half rehearsing trying to figure out how to open the door from the inside, which is how he got a little scratch on his nose," Campbell said. "It's a trick to lift the latch from the inside and
Video is on the site.
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Let’s see a cat do that!
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My dog would have done the same thing. She hated being at the vets. Hated it.
But she was only 8 lbs and the size of the average cat.
And not very smart.
Dumb but lovable - just like her owner.
My dog did the same thing when I dropped him off at the vet. The girl took him in the back and I left. I opened my car to leave and he pushed by me and jumped in my car.
The girl came running out and said that dog can open doors. I forgot to tell them that because I thought they would keep him in a cage.
We always had to keep the doors locked, or he would just come and go at will.
He is gone now, but he was the smartest and naughtiest dog I ever had.
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It is way beneath a kitty cat’s time and effort to even bother with such trivialities. :-)
Figured it would be a Golden. Those dogs are smart.
He thought they said, “go to get tutored”
Certain breeds of dogs are clever enough to go wherever they want and get into anything they want.
Other breeds don’t know they exist.
They should let him be. He’s likely to have acquired a gun by now.
LOL!
:)
Its not a retriever.Go Here:http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/reviews/greatpyrenees.html
My sis has 3 they stay out all winter and travel in the sheep herd.You wouldn’t want to be a coyote near those sheep.
They are gental if they know you
and gentle too
Not the least bit surprised. Pyrs are independent thinkers and will figure out solutions given time and proper motivation. My Pyr will take food off of high counter tops by moving chairs. He’s opened doors. Even took a dominos pizza out of the oven by pulling the towel on the oven handle.
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