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Tom Francis - SWSports

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:22:28 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:09:06 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

A buddy told me this and I tried it on every dog I've had since.
Take a biscuit, show it to the dog, put it on the floor and then
put a light weight plastic bowl over it. Not a transparent one.
My smart dog wasn't fooled, and knocked the bowl off every time.
My 2 dumb dogs - hard as hell to train them anything - never had a
clue. The biscuit never existed once the bowl went over it.
Anybody care to give it a try?

--Vic

I didn't trick Auggie Doggie either but he couldn't manage to knock
the bowl over. He pushed around and pawed at it for a while then just
started screwing with me about it.
"Hey buddy, you are the one with the thumbs, help me out here" sort
of thing.

Border Collies are pretty smart when it comes to figuring something
out.

I did this when they were about one year old. Both of them looked at
me, looked at the bowl, thought about it for a minute, then pickup up
the bowls with their teeth, put a paw under the edge and flipped it
over.

When they were about the same age, I used to take an old comforter we
had and I'd hide under it and call for them. The first time I did it,
they would try to "dig" through the cover to get to me without
success. The second time, they both grabbed a corner and pulled it
right off of me.

I've seen Border Collies learn how to turn a door knob.