I Knew my Dog Was Really Smart When..... - Page 2

That's what Kali did for me, drug me into the kitchen & barked at the fridge...when I checked, my blood sugar was so low it wouldn't read on the meter, my hands, feet, & face were already numb. I know she saved my life.

My question is, how can we call them 'dumb animals' even in the sense of being speechless, let alone unintelligent? They are able to assess & intervene appropriately in so many different situations! And how they let us know, not just their needs, but our own? I think that as we (dumb humans) gradually learn more about dogs & other animals, we may realize our intelligence is not that unique.

Just sayin'! jackie harris

Hey Ninja, I totally hear you! LOL! Mine will 'talk' over me whenever I am talking to Carl about plans for the day. If it doesn't include them, they start barking, no kidding! I have to yell, "QUIET!" to say whatever it was I had to say. And they alert to the phone ringing, but they'll be quiet when I call home from work. Ansgar will bark every time I open my mouth, shut mouth, she's quiet. Open mouth, she barks. It happens way too frequently to be coincidence!

jackie harris

LOL Jackie!

They know EXACTLY what they are doing.

Good thread Jackie thanks for starting it.

Thanks, I love reading about our super smart GSDs! jackie harris

I've owned a couple of really stupid dogs over the years, makes one really notice the smart ones.
I knew my dog was really smart when I saw how she takes charge of things and has her own ideas about how to go about it.
She lets me know things in her own way, alerting me to a situation.
And often seems to know what I'm thinking even when I purposely tried to mislead her.
I can see her thinking about things and making choices.
She knows how to get her way.
The understand more than we think I believe, and they have feelings, and show emotions.
No, not a dumb animal at all, except for a couple here and there.

Great Thread!

Deja my 2-1/2 year old GSD out smarts us on a daily basis.  When she was just 4 months old she started opening doors in the house, her favorite one is the bathroom.  She just loves to open the door and flush the toilet she loves to watch in amazment as the water goes down, and then flushes it again.  She also pops the heater vents off on the floor and loves to drop her toys down them.  She watches as if she is trying to figure out where they go.

She recently learned how to unlock the front door! She uses her mouth to turn the deadbolt lock and presto the door is open.  We have had to remove the deadbolt knob she she can't open it anymore.

She ecapes out of every kennel we put her in, we have had to resort to master locks on all the kennel doors and gates.  We had a aluminum kennel built for the truck, it took her no time at all to learn to open the door, so we started locking it with the key, but sometimes my husband forgets to take the key out of the lock and she uses her front toenail to turn the key on the outside of the kennel and open the door.  The people we train with always say they think she was a human in her past life. LOL


I have never been around a smarter dog!
 

Wow, that's a really smart dog! Kali could open the front door, until we changed the handle! She tries now, but it's a little too stiff for her to turn, thank goodness. She does turn on faucets to get a drink, LOL! (she doesn't turn them off) jackie harris

Fang tricked me so good it is going to be one of my favorite memories forever. Her treats are those tubes of meat you buy from Petsmart that kinda look like a salami, well I was cutting them into smaller pieces and she kept trying to steal them. I just used my body to keep her away, after a couple of minutes she goes to the table where one of my kids had left an empty bowl after they ate breakfast, she knocks it down to the ground. I walk over to pick it up and she darts over to the other side of the kitchen while I am picking up the bowl and she takes the biggest mouthful she could of the treats I had just cut up and ran away...little stinker set me up, I was so proud!

That's a very smart dog! jackie harris

After performing a special task for me she would go to "her" cupboard (my pantry) and open the door and get her treats out to treat herself for the task she performed.   Mind you she had a plastiic screw top container which she COULD get the lid off, but I did not make her do that as I wanted to treat her for the task.   Also when she opened up the gate to our backyard to let everyone out to visit the neighbors or when someone came to our house.  She was my service dog, the service dog or all service dogs.  A very special, special girl.  Nan