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I LOVE IT!! My guys do this too, except Broker will ask us to throw a tennis ball and Thaler who has a bone will run for the tennis ball; he then so calmly picks up the bone. Dogs are very smart!!
Great drawing of a border terrier too
You have captured this idea SO WELL!!! My dogs pull this trick all the time and the one with the bone usually falls for it too and of course in doggie land, possession is 9/l0ths of the law. I so enjoy your cartoons and you are so talented at taking an idea and expressing it in cartoon form. How you keep coming up with these day after day is beyond me. I so enjoy them. Thank you for your hard work!
Our Cookie, a shorthaired German Pointer did not like our other dog Scottie, a terrier next to us, so when Scottie sat down with us or nuzzled close, Cookie would run to the window and bark. Scottie could not resist and would run to the window to bark as well.
As soon as Scottie jumped off , Cookie rushed to our side.
Cookie also loved to “tell” on Scottie to get her in trouble. She wanted to be the “good doggie”
And they say that dogs cannot reason… I’ve things like this happen too many times in my house to think that. Usually it is for the prime spot on the sofa.
The classic dog scam artist at work. My guys use this to scam all sorts of things from each other: bones, the best dog bed and the spot on the sofa.
I love your cartoons. I have a story which you might want to use. My late friend, Peaches, was a border collie so you know he (yes, he) was smart. However, I tried and tried to teach him to roll over and he just wouldn’t do it. One day I was out with him and came upon a pack of 8-10 year old girls who just fawned over him. They asked if he could do tricks. I said, “Of course!” and he did the traditional repertoire of “shake”, “lie down”, “speak”, etc. Then I told them I haven’t been able to get him to roll over. He must have wanted to impress the girls, though, because as soon as I said those words, he rolled over as if he had been doing it all his life.
Oldest trick in the book at our house! LOL Tootsie, our coonhound/dobe mix, has it perfected.
lol, see this all the time between my big dogs. They are so smart!
Love your cartoons but still waiting for the Dachshunds…
Omigod, that’s totally my Berner Frieda! She’s the lowest rank in our pack of three dogs, but she’s very smart. So she is constantly calling Geppetto’s and Lola’s attention to other stuff to get their toys! Here’s my canine trio: http://www.thedailytail.com/nonfiction/where-words-are-obsolete/
Years ago had a male Dobe who was appeared so dumb and he was a chewer. We gave him bones to chew but he never let them go and his teeth wore down to a numb, so we retrained him from bones to tennis balls. He always had it in his mouth, never let it go. Everytime he got a drink of water out of a bucket we provided for the dobes, he’d lay his tennis ball down and one of the girls would grab it and run and he would sit and cry and cry. One day he went to get a drink and his ball accidentally fell into the water. The girls were stymied. When he finished his drink he stuck his head under water and got his ball. From that point on he never lost the ball again when he was thirsty. Dumped it into that bucket as if he was the smartest guy in the world.
That’s great! My dogs do that all the time! I have a chiquaqua/jack russel cross (Ginger), a miniture snauzer (Mercedes), and a lab/terrier/spaniel cross (Lacey). Another trick is Ginger will bark non stop at whoever has what she wants until they give it up.
Oh, my — we see this nearly every day in our house with our two labs! Even if they have the exact same toy, the one that the other dog has is somehow better. Too funny!
My Schatzi used to do this with our black lab, Roscoe. The big doofus fell for it EVERY time and each time, he had an expression that said, “How did THAT happen?”
My favorite version of the bone game – our Border Terrier, Clementine, would pile all the bones in the house (there were a lot, and she always seemed to know how many there were) under the dining room table, lie on top of them and gnaw on one. Henrietta, the Whippet, and Cuddles, the Borzoi, would tag-team her. One would grab a bone and run, and while Clemmie pursued the thief, the other would grab another bone. Clemmie would return, take inventory, realize one of her bones was missing and take off in search of it. Meanwhile the first malefactor would return and make off with another bone… This could go on for most of an afternoon. Clemmie had absolutely no sense of humor, while the hounds, of course, were positively giddy with joy over their game.
Thanks so much for drawing a Border Terrier! Best breed no one in the US knows.
Such a familiar sight!! LOL! Love it. Dare I admit that my lab has even pulled this on me so he could take the WHOLE sofa while I opened the door to see what he’d been barking at.
Are you sure you weren’t in my house? My Buck and Squirt do this all the time~
My collie will do the same thing too. He’ll go running outside, bark at the ‘Nothing’, get the others to bolt through the house door, and then he’ll come back inside to finish off their dinners they left behind. ~ Family of three canines.
That’s my Harry! Thanks for putting it up. It was amazing that after 10 and 14 years of being tricked the other dogs never caught on.
Our guys do that too! Mostly Scotch who cons Tucker out of most anything he wants…Dalmatians are way smarter than people give them credit for! Pongo used to ask us to do things for him by staring at what it was he wanted changed and then at us, back and forth until we (stupid humans) figured it out. When dogs take over the world and rule humanity we will all be better off.