Dog. Not so stupid.

[rimturse]

Trick puppy once...trick puppy twice?

C: Come to bed.
Lia: Don't want to.
C: Okay. Don't go. Waiiiit.
Lia: *sits*
C: No. No.
Lia: *sits*
C: Waiiiit. Good girl! Okay! Come!
Lia: Ha! Yeah right! *runs away*
C: She didn't fall for it!
May: She's a Belgian Shepherd Dog, I didn't think she would.

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Ah, a win-win situation either way.

If Lia fell for it: Ha! We're so smart, and we don't have the hassle of forcing her to go to bed.

Lia not falling for it: Ah, my dog is sooooo smart! :P

[frigg.livejournal.com]

True :p

[angrboda]

Problem with Belgians. They learn easily.

Our first one, Kassie, could lick her mouth at command. It was ever so sweet.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yes, the quick learning has its good and bad sides.

[angrboda]

It further proves the point that aforementioned Kassie was epileptic and because of that had a very very short attention span and was very easily distracted. She could get distracted by a person going by on a bicycle so far away from herself that any other dog would barely even have discovered it was there in the first place and ignored it if they did notice. She was the first dog we had and when my dad looked the breed up in a book we had a good laugh about one of the characteristics put down was something along the lines of 'seeming very intelligent'. Kassie was very much the exception to prove the rule. And I still taught her to lick her mouth on command very easily. So a dog with a normal dog-IQ only needing to experience something once doesn't surprise me at all. :p
(On the other hand I never managed to teach Pascal that, which was a shame because he was a drooler...)

[frigg.livejournal.com]

There will always be exceptions to the rule, from what I've heard, your dad had a few dog-exceptions. :)

My first Belgian (Tervueren) figured out how to free herself from one of these metal leash holder that you screw into the ground. Since chewing the leash was forbidden, she had to problem solve. Her solution? Walk around the holder until the leash became tangled in it, the RUN in large counter-clockwise circles to unscrew the metal, and tadaaa - FREEDOM!