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When my wife and I were newlyweds, we lived in a little country cottage with several cats in the neighborhood. The cottage's back yard had a stone barbecue grill much like those at state parks. One evening we grilled hot dogs and ate all but one, which stayed on the grill.
In the morning, the hot dog was gone, but there was a dead mole in its place.
We always figured that the cat was on his way home from the hunt, found the hot dog, and decided he'd rather have the meal that was already skinned.
Since then the story has been repeated at other houses with other cats (not always a hot dog, but always the trading of something dead for some other type of food)
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Smart cat.
One time I was changing batteries in a remote and my Lab Chelsea was sitting there watching me.
When I went to take the old batteries and put them in a bag for later disposal I couldn't find one of them.
I figured it would turn up later.
Well yeah it did, in Chelsea's poop.
Dumb dog. LOL.
Now see Chelsea would have had the mole as the main course and the hot dog for a snack.
Tim
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The wife uwed to greet ole StoodioDawg and let the animal lick the wife's face.
So I never told her the part about StoodioDawg eatin' her own poop...
--Mac
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My Lab Marley in her 1st year chewed up a hub cap, the license plate and the wiring off of my utility trailer. She also hangs in the shop where we make solar screens and does her best to eat all the metal shavings from the chop saw . . . yes it shows up in her poop. My grandson swore he saw sparks as she was pooping on day! I don't doubt it one bit.
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Well this thread doesn't seem too busy, so I guess I'll add another true Animal story.
Of course it's about my Lab Chelsea who passed away last year.
I use to enjoy training Chelse to do certain tasks to see what she was capable of learning.
I usually ended up learning a lot from the process too.
Well any ways I decided to teach her how to put her food bowl away under the kitchen sink when she was done eating.
That took me a couple weeks working with her a few minutes every day.
Braking down that task to smaller tasks till finally she learned to pick up her food bowl put it on a shelf under the kitchen sink and close the doors after she was finished with her meal.
Then I'd give her a little snack as a reward.
The thing is if I or my wife Debra wasn't there watching her when she was done eating she'd pickup the bowl and bring it into whatever room we were in drop it on the floor and wait till we noticed her.
Then she'd pick up her bowl and head back to the kitchen and put it away and look at us like OK where's my snack.
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If you think dogs can't count just try having three treats in your pocket and then only giving him two of them.
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My dog had it drilled into her that potty has to happen OUTSIDE. No matter what, OUTSIDE. So now, if she has to go overnight, she jumps into bed to wake me. The funny part is this. I am a very sound sleeper, and I have sleep apnoea so I sleep with a CPAP machine and foam earplugs. I really can't hear anything but the hiss of the machine when I sleep, so when she shakes her collar tags I don't hear them. She has learned to jump onto the bed and for some reason always using only her LEFT front paw, she taps me on the shoulder until I wake up to let her out. She also likes going up into the studio on the second floor and in the earlier days, when I still had to watch that she wasn't going to chew on an electric cord, I would always say "Where you going?" when she went to that door. As a result of that routine, now that she is allowed up there any time she still pauses with one paw on the first step and looks back at me until she hears me say "Go ahead" and gesture with my hand that she is allowed up there. They really do get into their routine. During puppy times I caged her during the day, and the words she knows are "Okay. I'm going to work." When she hears those words, she walks directly into the cage. Now, that cage is still there but there is no door on it. I wanted her to keep her "special place" so I left the cage up (we call it her "house"). Still now at 5 1/2 years of age, when I say "Okay. I'm going to work." she walks in there and lays down, even though she only stays in there until the car leaves the driveway. She just knows that "work" means "get in my house".
She is a great, intelligent dog. In fact she is laying on my bed, on the pillows no less, right now. (I have in house security cameras for when I am at work and I can see her.)
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Fortunately we had a doggy door going out to the backyard so Chelsea pretty much went out on her own.
Well that is until she tangled with a skunk one night.
After that I closed off the doggy door at night.
and ya know all those treatments you hear about when trying to de-skunk a dog don't really work that good.
Just constant bathing the dog and time is the answer.
Now bare in mind we live in Long Beach California 1 mile from the beach an there isn't supposed to be skunks hanging around but there are.
Tim
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Hey eddie,
The use of the left paw doesn't surprise me.
I think that dogs, like people, are born to favor being Left or Right handed. Or should that be Left or Right PAWED?
Whenever StoodioDawg wished to be "dextrous" - in the sense that a dog can be dextrous - she too favored the left paw.
Found that out in no uncertain terms when trying to teach her the close down the Master Fader trick. Which she refused to really ever learn. I don't think she ever got it that the noise she heard could be turned down or off with that control. That, and I think she liked the noises...
--Mac
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