how do you teach this to a dog?

[Jess Tolbirt]

I know a dog will try and do anything to please his master but i find this fascinating,.

http://www.wimp.com/doubledog/

[..]

Looked like a happy mutt.

[gregc]

   He was having a good time with his humans.  Looks like he has some Austrailian Cattle dog in him, they are a very smart breed of dog, see them alot in the dog frisbee games.

[YoungPUP]

Probably something that just happened.  Worked for a lady in highschool baling hay that had an Aus. cattle dog.  That thing was Creepy smart... We'd start hooking up the baler and hay racks, and the dog would take off.  Get to the field (she had several in the area) and he'd be laying in the shade waiting for us.  Too creepy.

[Daniel Meyer]

That's pretty incredible!

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

I think dogs can usually become as smart as their people expect them to be.

So many times I see a dog tied up and forgotten somewhere, just going insane day after day on that chain. And you've got to wonder, what could that dog have been with a better owner?

Our dog Jade understands pretty much everything we say, or at least she seems to. If you call a family member by name she usually looks at them. And, we've got a big family. If you tell her to look at the deer she'll look at the skull on the wall. When I come home from hunting she has to go out and look in the back of the truck to see if I killed a deer. If we tell her she needs a bath she goes and gets in the bathtub. When she comes in the lathe shop she stays by the door because of the metal chips.

When my daughter and grand-kids pulled out of the drive and moved to Washington state she stood by the road and watched the way they went for 30 minutes. When they came home for Christmas she literately cried.

When anyone comes into the house she will growl/grunt/bark quietly at them until they say hi to her, then she is satisfied. She's had the run of the house and yard for all of her 12 or so years. I taught her to not leave the yard with the help of an underground fence but the fence hasn't worked in ten years and she hasn't worn the collar since she was two. She just stays out of the road and in the yard or neighbors pasture because she knows it's what we want.

She was found as a tiny puppy lost on a Terre Haute street and picked up by a security guard who asked my son Joe to take her home. She could have wound up spending her life chained to a tree and ignored. In which case all her smarts would have just added to her torment.

[alph]

i would have thought that dog would have dreadlocks...... 

as for dogs being smart, some dogs are just like people, too stupid to know anybetter.  we had two dogs when we were growing up, one was WAY smart, was a natural "cattle herding" dog, the other was so stupid, it would chase the cows AWAY from were the other was guiding 'em. 

[Fudd]

I think dogs can usually become as smart as their people expect them to be.

Man, you hit the nail on the head with that statement.  Don't get me wrong, I don't think all dogs are 4-legged Albert Einsteins, but the really smart ones are scarey smart.

[Titan]

I think dogs can usually become as smart as their people expect them to be.

So many times I see a dog tied up and forgotten somewhere, just going insane day after day on that chain. And you've got to wonder, what could that dog have been with a better owner?

Our dog Jade understands pretty much everything we say, or at least she seems to. If you call a family member by name she usually looks at them. And, we've got a big family. If you tell her to look at the deer she'll look at the skull on the wall. When I come home from hunting she has to go out and look in the back of the truck to see if I killed a deer. If we tell her she needs a bath she goes and gets in the bathtub. When she comes in the lathe shop she stays by the door because of the metal chips.

When my daughter and grand-kids pulled out of the drive and moved to Washington state she stood by the road and watched the way they went for 30 minutes. When they came home for Christmas she literately cried.

When anyone comes into the house she will growl/grunt/bark quietly at them until they say hi to her, then she is satisfied. She's had the run of the house and yard for all of her 12 or so years. I taught her to not leave the yard with the help of an underground fence but the fence hasn't worked in ten years and she hasn't worn the collar since she was two. She just stays out of the road and in the yard or neighbors pasture because she knows it's what we want.

She was found as a tiny puppy lost on a Terre Haute street and picked up by a security guard who asked my son Joe to take her home. She could have wound up spending her life chained to a tree and ignored. In which case all her smarts would have just added to her torment.

Frye, I've never been a dog owner but have seen some smart ones. Yours sounds fascinating. What breed is it?

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

I think dogs can usually become as smart as their people expect them to be.

So many times I see a dog tied up and forgotten somewhere, just going insane day after day on that chain. And you've got to wonder, what could that dog have been with a better owner?

Our dog Jade understands pretty much everything we say, or at least she seems to. If you call a family member by name she usually looks at them. And, we've got a big family. If you tell her to look at the deer she'll look at the skull on the wall. When I come home from hunting she has to go out and look in the back of the truck to see if I killed a deer. If we tell her she needs a bath she goes and gets in the bathtub. When she comes in the lathe shop she stays by the door because of the metal chips.

When my daughter and grand-kids pulled out of the drive and moved to Washington state she stood by the road and watched the way they went for 30 minutes. When they came home for Christmas she literately cried.

When anyone comes into the house she will growl/grunt/bark quietly at them until they say hi to her, then she is satisfied. She's had the run of the house and yard for all of her 12 or so years. I taught her to not leave the yard with the help of an underground fence but the fence hasn't worked in ten years and she hasn't worn the collar since she was two. She just stays out of the road and in the yard or neighbors pasture because she knows it's what we want.

She was found as a tiny puppy lost on a Terre Haute street and picked up by a security guard who asked my son Joe to take her home. She could have wound up spending her life chained to a tree and ignored. In which case all her smarts would have just added to her torment.

Frye, I've never been a dog owner but have seen some smart ones. Yours sounds fascinating. What breed is it?

I don't really know. I'm sure she's some kind of mixed breed, she's about 15" high at the shoulders. Here's a pic I took just now.

[R J]

Yours looks like it has some Lab in her and maybe a little Collie..