Moto has a lot of toys that she leaves all over the house. Each night, I take
an inventory of the toys that are missing and tell her one by one to find each
toy and put them away before she can have her dinner.
I leave my front door open most of the time with just a screen door and a baby
gate in between Moto and any solicitors. Moto’s favorite trick is to wait until
I have my lunch on the coffee table; and then she runs to the front door and
barks like there is someone there. As I rush down the hall to the front door,
she runs around through the kitchen and helps herself to my plate.
She also sneaks pieces of pizza and closes the box so no one is the wiser. That
caused a few arguments until we realized it was Moto who ate all the pizza L
Dogs are a lot smarter than people give them credit for. After 15,000 years of
living with humans and being dependent on them for everything, dogs probably
know us better than we know ourselves.
Peg Graham - http://HessenGSD.com <http://hessengsd.com/>
Home of Multiple BISS, Pacific Coast Victrix, 2012 #8 GSD in USA, GCH CH
Mariner’s Akaya RN HSAs “MOTO”
"May I always be the kind of person my dogs think I am."
From: showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:showgsd-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Linda Terry
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 10:18 PM
To: lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Showlist
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: 60 MINUTES TONIGHT
My favorite story is about my champion male, Zack. American lines. I was
trying to clip his nails one day and we were having a battle. He was sitting
on my bed and I would take his paw and pull it towards me with clippers in
hand. He would pull his paw back. Since he was a good sized dog, I was losing
the battle. So I went downstairs to the refrigerator, got some roast beef, and
then asked my older female to hop on the bed. I took her paw, clipped a nail
and gave her a big chunk of roast beef. I told her to get down, told Zack to
get up, and he IMMEDIATELY jumped up and held out his paw for me!! I clipped
his nail, gave him some roast beef, and never had problems again with nail
clipping!!!
I currently own his granddaughter and I think she is even smarter than him.
These dogs are amazing!!!!!!!
Linda Terry
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In my five decades of GSD ownership I continue to be amazed at how smart they
are. I should say some of them. I have had some, particularly males that only
seem to think about three things, the three s's, sleep, slop, and sex. Beyond
that, they don't use their gray matter extensively.
On the other hand, my females have pretty much been much smarter, or at least
the show it.
Although I have primarily had American show lines, I ended up getting a black
female from CZ Border Patrol lines whose granddam is a top Sch dog here in the
US. I think she is the smartest one I have ever had.
Recent example... I have a young female (now 8 months) from American Show
lines that still wants to chew on things if I don't keep an eye on her. So she
spends the night in a large crate in my bedroom. When it is time for bed, I
tell her to get in her crate. The door tends to swing shut so the crate is
normally closed, but not latched. She stares at me like I am on Mars. After
asking her to get in her crate a few times, the CZ dog kind of gives me an
exasperated look, comes over, and opens the door for her. Not something I
taught her or encouraged her to do, she just figured it out and did it. She is
the same dog that figured out how to open both latches on the door and let
herself out when she was one on the inside.
We all probably have our own stories of something our dogs have done that
amazed us, beyond what you would have expected.
On 6/14/2015 6:12 PM, Helen Franklin wrote:
SPECIAL - HOW SMART IS YOUR DOG...SMARTER THEN YOU THINK
Helen Franklin
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Lew Wurdeman
Mordor German Shepherds
www.mordorgermanshepherds.com
Breeding German Shepherd Dogs
since 1973
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