When You See Your Dog Doing This He's Trying To Tell You Something (Video)

Hello Angle#3(prelim),

Charlie here. I am disappointed your video did not mention leg humping? Again, as a “prelim” angle I will let you go on this one.

And did you donate a kidney yet?

Signed,

Charlie (I make my dog fetch doughnuts. What do you make your dog fetch?)

The limits we as humans tend to place on animals is somewhat mystifying to me. It used to be they believed dogs where motivated solely by instinct, that they only responded to different pitches or tones within voice commands. Scientists now say that dogs have the minds and learning capability of a five or six year old child. I am convinced that even that assessment in inaccurate. I say you have to live in an animal’s communal environment in order to fully appreciate their true level of intelligence. I think you’d be surprised.

I am currently the butler for a family of pugs. My wife is their maid. This family consists of a five year old male pug (my very best friend in this world) and his beautiful mate, the house mom who is three years old. They together have three one year old sons and my mischievous sidekick (Service Dog) a daughter of the same age.

Honestly the family structure and hierarchy is really not much different than with human beings. They obviously have a language noting that particular responses are expressed consistently among the crew. Their learning capabilities seem to be only limited by the amount of time and effort you the teacher is willing to provide. I’m sure skills like math might be impossible to teach, however teaching the recognition of a particular value of paper money is certainly possible. For example I had one dog who when shown a one, a five, a ten and a twenty dollar bill and asked to choose the one with the greatest value he would consistently select the largest bill displayed. He would do it in the reverse as well. It was no trick he knew the difference between denominations and knew that the things he enjoyed money could buy.

One time when he and I where out for a walk, (not on a leash) as we walked past a woman talking on a public telephone the thinking of this remarkable hound was sideswiped by the same kind of impulsive behavior that petty criminals often nurture. The woman’s purse was resting on the pavement near her feet as she ruffled through some papers she was apparently referencing in her conversation. This dog noticed like myself that there was a twenty dollar bill hanging out of her wallet that was visible inside the half opened purse. What happened next was nothing short of amazing. As we walked past the woman, I led a step or two in front of the dog. He realizing nobody was watching cunningly reached in the purse while still in motion clipping the clueless woman for her money.

Because I was slightly in front of the dog it never occurred to me what he had done until we arrived at our location just up the road. We were actually headed to a local market to purchase the dogs favorite treat, an ice cream sandwich. As we arrived at the store I glanced back to give the usual instruction before I enter a building telling him to sit and stay. As I spit the words out I noticed he had a a twenty dollar bill hanging out of his mouth. I immediately made the connection! When questioned about what he had done there was no doubt he was ashamed of his actions.

At that point it was obvious that walking back to return the heisted greenback would be useless as a considerable amount of time had already passed by then. I think in this dogs mind the twenty bucks was going to buy him a lot more than one measly ice cream, he wanted the works! He Got his ice cream but he aslo got a lot of scolding about what he did. I can assure you those words did not lay on deaf ears.

A Dog Lover

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