Purchase a large steak. Cook it so that your dog knows it is for you. Wait until the dog departs the room. Drop steak on ground. Then say, "Damn, there goes my steak. Sigh, I sure hate throwing out all this meat." If your canine doesn't appear within 3 seconds, he's illiterate. If he appears between .5 and 3 seconds, he's literate. If he appears in under one second, he's literate and precognitive. If your steak never actually hits the floor, your dog is a Republican.
LOL! My dog is definitely a Republican.
"Cook it so that your dog knows it is for you. Wait until the dog departs the room"
My dog would have to be taken by the collar and physically removed from the room if a steak was cooking. And she would be right back in the kitchen, the minute she was turned loose.
If food is being prepared, she will come and lie down in a strategic location to where the food is. She pretends to be asleep. But , should even a small scrap fall , she snaps awake, and strikes like a rattle snake, and catches it before it hits the floor! "(We call her Dust Buster, because we never have to vacuum up any spilled food"). She will also decide to get up, and walk right in front of you , if you are carrying a plate or something. ( I swear she's trying to trip me).
We have to lock her up if people come over. She has the bad habit of removing a guest's plate of food from the table. When they're not looking she will set the plate gently onto the floor, (without spilling a drop), and then she devours it in under 2 seconds.Sometimes, I don't know why we put up with her.
She knows the word "Walk" too. All I have to say is "Want to go for a walk?". She will go to the front door and start whining and barking loudly until I put her leash on and take her for her walk. She's a character.
The Boogie would be there in under two seconds, but he's polite enough to set and wait for my permission before he would grab it.
I’m considerably bigger and badder than he is, and he knows it.