Sneaky Smart ways your dogs can Get What They Want.
Then Charlie turns around, walks over to the sliding door, and looks at me like he always does when he wants out. As the senior male this usually results in the other two dogs following him out. Toby's head come up as he watches me trudge go over and open the door. Charlie steps out and Toby jumps off the sofa and follows him. This happens something like two or three times a night so it is nothing unusual. This time however, Charlie reappears in less than a second, walks back into the house and heads straight over to the end of the sofa, still warm from Toby. Without a glance back he climbs up and settles down with a humph. Toby sticks his head in the door, looks around like "Where did everybody go?" and comes back in. It had all been a ruse to get Toby off the sofa. Clever. I had another OES male, Randy, who did something very similar once except the victim that time was me. He liked to sleep on the bed with his head on the pillow. The house we had then had a door out of the master bedroom that led to the patio. One night in the middle of the night Randy woke me up by whining and when I opened my eyes and saw him at the door I got up as usual, figuring he had to go. Half asleep, I stumbled to the door to let him out. Quick as a flash, Randy shot by me and jumped up on the bed where I had been sleeping, laid down with his head on my pillow and closed his eyes pretending to be fast asleep by the time I got back to the bed. I am convinced that sheepdogs can plot in advance to get what they want and are not above deliberate deception when necessary. |
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| Ahh what a clever boy!!!!! At 2 years Tiggy is still working on her strategies. So far she's figured out that: 1. if she rings her door bell in the middle of the night someone(me) will get up and let her out for a nice constitutional wander around the back yard. Solution: back in the crate at night 2. if she goes out and pretends to have a wee she will get a treat. Solution: check for a wet patch on the paved courtyard 3. if she goes up to the couch and stares at Rastus long enough he will start fighting with her. Solution: ignore her!!! or when it all gets to much squirt her in the ear with water 4. if she leaps off the couch and runs she can beat the baby gate swinging shut and follow me up to the bedroom to jump on the bed. Solution: train all uprights to latch the baby gate. Now what is the solution to making sure all uprights latch the baby gate.  She is smart enough to keep coming up with new ways to circumvent the rules, then I have to come up with a way to circumvent the circumvention. I think I'm getting dizzy, I need to lie down now. |
| too funny you guys .. yes i had to latch the pantry hey it works great since duffy can open it well who now teaches me to remember to latch the pantry before i leave.. duff of couse is so happy when i leave it open by mistake like tues!! there when a bag of cookies |
| ha very funny! mine have not figured anything out yet. does nipping at my butt to tell me she is hungry count as a strategy? |
Charlie is a very clever dog. Poor Toby.  Mim, my childhood sheepdog would fake peeing to go by-by. Many times we would have to demand she make potty or she wouldn't get to go in the car. |
| I see a lot of the "he's in my spot" but have yet to see planning to reclaim property. What funny pups! |
| Every night since Charlie discovered he could lure Toby off the sofa he has repeated this deception... and every time Toby has fallen for it. Charlie has even refined it to it's essentials— he doesn't even go out any longer, just goes and stands by the door until Toby joins him thinking they are going to be let out, then Charlie walks over and climbs on the sofa where Toby had been. It's totally obvious what is going on and I'm beginning to think I've got one pretty smart sheepdog and another who hasn't a clue. |
Oh I get the "fake pee" all the time...I let them out. They sniff around but have no interest in peeing...Then I say, C'mon guys, potty for a cookie...Suddenly the both pretned to pee. A few dirbbles come out and then run in for their cookie! Who says Sheepdogs aren't smart!  I think they are smarter than we are! |
| Boy, I've seen the fake pee a number of times! Last night I got faked out for a new version: After Glacier receives her night med, she gets a cookie and goes outside. There she pees and settles in for the night guarding the property.....or sometimes, after a pee, she asks to sleep inside for a few hours before beginning her patrol. Fine. Last night, cookie in mouth she stepped back from the open door and went down the hall.......and peed  Did she expect to be able to sleep indoors then? Rest assured she did not sleep indoors and infact was taken in a double time march to the door and booted out!  They always find a new angle............. |
| Patch does the fake yawn. I call to her to go out or to come here or some simple command and she stares at me and yawns. It doesn't bother me, I just laugh to myself and give her a pat on the head telling her how funny she is. |
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