Can we have a clever ddog thread?

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Ddog once belonged to dd's bf and was an outside ddog. Dd started letting her in and bought a dog bed to cheer her up!
Ddog started standing next to the dog bed and wagging her tail and barking at dd.
It was a while before dd realised she was asking for her bed to be moved as the sunny patch it was in had moved....
She still does this for me, stands at the kitchen window and barks to make me move her cushion.
One smart ddog imo!
What does your smart pooch do that amazes you?

I mean, all of my dogs are absolute morons so can’t really answer that one...
But, ddog1 is also a sun worshipper and follows the square round on the floor!

As soon as DH leaves the living room, DDog jumps onto the sofa DH has vacated, picks up the TV remote control and brings it to me.

We’d only had our rescue Labrador for a couple of days when I carried a pile of clean washing and put it on the bottom stair ready to take up later. I’d dropped a sock on the way and ddog picked it up, carried it out and dropped it on the pile 😯 I was stunned, I guess it was a ‘trick’ he’d learnt before we had him but I was still impressed. We also trained him to gently pull our socks off. Though we had to stop him when he started trying to take off all visitor’s socks uninvited 😂. DDs have also taught him all manner of BGT style ‘dance’ moves and tricks using hand signals only. He’s a very smart dog. He also knows, depending on the weather, which door to come in. Sunny and dry, kitchen doors, wet and muddy, goes straight to, and waits to be let in, boot room door. Our late ddog girl Labrador used to ‘knock’ on the door with her paw when she had been outside long enough and was done mooching.

Granny Dog knocks to be let back in, growls slightly to wake up for any night toilet as required and will woof when her blankets need rearranging... (spoilt dog)

She also knows to stop and sit at roads, stop at the front door (not to run out unless called) and she always is careful around children.

Not very smart behaviour but I’m still proud of her

I have non to add because my ddog is an absolute idiot but thank you so much OP for making this thread, this is the kind of thing I need to read on a Thursday 👍🏻

PestDog does occasionally earn his keep.

• last year he told me about a burglar at 2am when all he'd done was open the garden gate out of sight. It was a communal garden and many

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PestDog does occasionally earn his keep.

• last year he told me about a burglar at 2am when all he'd done was open the garden gate out of sight. It was a communal garden and many legit people came through, sometimes at night, and he never told me about them, so he knew this one was different.

• told me about rodent activities twice when I could see no evidence but traps caught them

• has an incredible sense of what's his and what's not. He'll destroy his toys but leaves my stuff alone. He's identified a brand new dog toy from an amazon delivery with several other items in, even though he'd never had that type of dog toy before. He pulled it out and walked off with it and ignored the other items. He only occasionally gets confused - my new microfibre duster does look a lot like a dog toy in fairness!

• at a beach we'd never been too before, I was scrambling over rocks with him when he decided one was a bit too high for him. He problem solved by racing 50 yards up the beach and out of sight to get around the rocks and meet me on the other side (he looked very pleased with himself - and I was very impressed with his problem solving in a brand new location)

• he can tell what I'm paying attention to, and if he wants a game of fetch he'll drop my ball into what I'm doing - cute, but somewhat irritating when he drops a ball on seedlings you're planting out or, on one occasion, on my dinner plate

• last summer I had to recall him when he got close to so many picnics that he started running up to them, turning back when he was about a metre or two away without me saying anything, then coming to me for a treat

• I put some grow bags in the garden this year and I only had to tell him once or twice not to pee on my crops and he didn't do it again - he now goes elsewhere in the garden. He also swiftly worked out that he's not allowed to walk on them either, and when a ball bounced onto the other side of a grow bag he waited for me to retrieve it for him.

His previous owner told me he was thick (he was actually just untrained). Of course he also does some really twatty things on a daily basis so he's far from perfect (and sometimes he's far too clever for his own good!)

I don't know about clever but it always makes me chuckle that if Battendog wants you to do something for him he will tap your leg with his paw and then tap the item he needs you to interact with. e.g. if he wants the back door opened he taps you then goes and taps the door. If he wants feeding he taps you then taps his bowl.

The tapping always feels like he is saying "excuse me, could you open this door?"

Battendog sounds very clever. That's impressive.

My dog and my parrot both look out over the front of the building from two different windows. They will both tell me if someone is coming to our block of flats, towards the entrance to my flat. The dog will then go and sit at the top of our stairs and wait for me to go down and open the door. If it is someone they know (a family member), the dog will be wagging her tail and the parrot will be making hallo noises and delighted cries.

My previous dog used to "help" when I was digging up weeds in the garden - she'd start digging in another part and pulling up plants and await praise.

Current dog sniffs out fallow deer and looks meaningfully at me, whilst staring at area of forest in direction of scent - we then creep quietly along to try to get a good look at them whilst not alarming them. Previous dog was a wildlife watcher too.

I had an amazing cat that always lived with me in Greece whenever I was at my little house there (she was otherwise feral). She was out for a walk on the hillside with me once and we were nearly home - she was ahead and raced back, making noises to make me follow her and took me round some bushes and to a rock where she proudly showed me a tortoise, bedding down for the night. Another time, we were up the hill in the dusk . Suddenly, she rose on her hind legs and gazed over the scrub and two badgers showed up and ran from left to right.

My dad had a dog (jrt-like) in India during the war when he was in the RAF. When he was at work all day, she used to take her dog dish to the char wallah (tea seller) when he showed up at camp, join the queue and get it filled. She'd drink it once it had cooled. Dad found out when the char wallah gave him the bill at the end of the first week.