Dumbest dog on earth!

[ovrszd]

Alright, here's another "Spot" story. Maybe not so dumb after all. In the winter it's usually fairly mild down here. Around 50's high and 30's low. Spot would stay outside until it got very cold, like in the low 30's-20's. One fine cold day, it was going to be about 20F that night so spot got to come in at dark. we would go to bed around 9 or so and he was....supposed...to sleep on the kitchen rug by the back door. Well, this went on for several nights. I got up about 6 to get ready for elementary school and I would get a glass of milk and sit on the couch. I noticed that it was very warm where I was sitting. Spot was on the rug where he was supposed to be every morning. I asked my mother if she had been sitting there before I got up and she said no. This happened a couple of times so I devised a plan to catch the "culprit" that I suspected. That night spot came in and faithfully laid down on his rug by the back door. My mother and I said good night to each other as we went through the hallway to our rooms. Turned off the lights and made a big deal of "good night"....then quietly hid in the hallway to watch for the varmint. Boy that trap sprang quick too. He laid there a few minutes and then lifted his head to look around and purty as you please, he got up and trotted to the couch and plopped his behind down....right where I would sit in the morning. Of course we threw on the lights and he looked like the proverbial deer in the headlights. He got scolded and locked in the kitchen from then on. He was smart enough to do it when we went to bed and then jump down and go to his rug when he heard the alarm clock go off... Maybe, just maybe he wasn't as dumb as I thought he was....that couch was surely more comfortable than laying on a thin rug by the door. :laughing:

As a kid you never had extra curricular activities after your Mom sent you to bed?

 

[k0ua]

Sounds to me like ole Spot was a mighty smart doggy. :thumbsup:

 

[ovrszd]

Sounds to me like ole Spot was a mighty smart doggy. :thumbsup:

For sure.

 

[Bird]

We've had a number of dogs; each with his or her own peculiarities, but we currently have an 11 year old female Chihuahua that I do believe is the smartest dog we've ever had. It's incredible how well she has us trained to do whatever she wants. But she's also the only dog I've ever known that's never learned to growl or snarl, and she WILL NOT fight or bite. If you hurt her, she'll try to get away, but she will not fight back. She loves everyone; just looking for new friends. And little kids in the neighborhood love to play with her.

When I was 17 years old, the local Postmaster had to get special permission to hire me as a temporary part time mail carrier. At that time there was an old battle scarred black (mostly) Cocker Spaniel that lived on the back dock of the post office. No one knew where he came from, but the postal employees made sure he had food and water, and he was known all over town as "Old Post Office". Each morning, he'd accompany one of the postmen on his route; never knew which one he was going to accompany today, and he might only follow along for half the route before returning to the Post Office. NO dog was going to bother a postman when Old Post Office was along; he'd willingly tangle with any dog of any size to protect a postman. But he wouldn't fight on his own against anything. One day I was delivering parcel post in our one postal vehicle; a leased 1949 Willys Jeep panel wagon with no driver's door. I had a stop to make right where one of the postmen was walking, and Old Post Office came running around from the side of a house with a little bitty dog, not a fourth of his size, yapping at his heals. Old Post Office jumped right in my lap and then on into the back of panel wagon; then turned to bark at that little dog that wasn't big enough to jump up into the panel wagon.

 

[Bigfoot62]

I was in a gab session a few years back about who had the dumbest dog amongst all of us.. Old Fred claimed the prize with his story about how old Zeke saw him crash through the ice at his pond. Zeke ran out there, grabbed Fred by the collar of his coat, dragged him up to the cabin, chewed open the door, poured out a cup of hot coffee (with cream and sugar) and carried it out to the porch to a shivering Fred.

We were all puzzled. That sounded like a real smart dog we all agreed until Fred informed us that he doesn't take cream and sugar in his coffee...

Yeah, the dog should have known better. Don't want to mess up a good cup of coffee with cream and sugar.

 

[oosik]

True story. Broke thru the ice riding my ATV across my big lake. Lake is 120 acres but only about 6' to 8' deep. Ice was too thin to support my weight - so after three tries to get back up on the ice, I was about to make my peace with God. I looked over on the shore line and there sat Sam, my golden lab, watching this entire debacle. Just as a thought I called him, he came over to me, I grabbed his collar and pulled. Scared the snot out of him - he throws it in 4WD reverse and pulled me out and onto the ice.

I guess I was living under the right star that day. I was out on the ice retrieving some goose decoys that an idiot friend had left and had frozen in. However, in retrospect, makes one wonder who exactly was the bigger idiot.

Sam stayed with me on my 1/2 mile walk home and was rewarded with the largest steak we had in the freezer. He may not have been the sharpest tool in the shed but I never regretted his time with me.

 

[newbury]

We had raised beagles and kept the mother, one female and one male. The two females were excellent rabbit dogs and fun to hunt with, the male, Sam was a little slow. Either of the females we could go out, roll up a big puffy snowball and lob it to them and they would happily jump up and bite it in the air. Not Sam, he would give it a mournful look, hunch his shoulders and wait for it to hit him. Wish we had had a video cam back in '63.

 

[dodge man]

I'd tell you how dumb our cat is but the minute I said "cat", nuff said.

 

[rbstern]

Our dearly departed Weimaraner, Bella, wasn't the brightest bulb. She was big on car rides, would always excitedly jump in the back of the SUV. One day, upon hearing that she was going for a ride, she ran out of the garage in her usual excitement, and jumped into the back of the SUV. Only problem: The hatch was still down. She crashed into it head first, landed in a heap at the bumper. Got up, shook her head, looked more dumbfounded than usual, and waited for us to open the hatch.

Another of her bright moments: She hated thunder storms. She would hide under our bed. Thing is, it was a tight fit. She could wriggle under, but not get out. In the morning, we had to lift up the corner of the bed so she could crawl out. That never deterred her. She'd beeline for the underside of the bed as soon as her barometer told her thunder was coming. We sometimes called her "Barometer Bella".

 

[k0ua]

I'd tell you how dumb our cat is but the minute I said "cat", nuff said.

We have had several cats through the years, and while some are dumber than a box of rocks, some have been very intelligent. They run the full gamut of animal intelligence also just like dogs.