Dogs are stupid and needy.
I love them.
my girl is not stupid, i will have you know!
hmph!
she can beg in six languages.
seriously, though...we've been very lucky. my girl had two accidents in our house EVER. and we've had her from 8 weeks old. both accidents were my fault. she walks at my side without a leash. she never touches ANYTHING she's not supposed to touch. never once bit or chewed on a shoe, food that wasn't hers, nothing. i know this doesn't make her brilliant...but it makes her aces in the dog world. i know i can leave the house with a roast sitting on the coffee table...come back an hour later and it will still be there, untouched. she will be sitting very close by and drooling, but she will not touch it.
oh, and her vocabulary...phenomenal!
I say shake, she shakes.
I say backyard...she can be down the street...she'll go to the backyard.
I say go home...she can be at the park...she'll go home and be waiting at the front door for me.
I say bring me your puppy...she'll bring me her puppy toy.
bring me your bone...she'll bring me her bone toy.
bring me a blanket, France...daddy's cold....she'll bring me one of her many prized fleece blankets so i can wrap myself up in it.
she has a great vocab...and i usually only have to run things by her a couple of times and she has it down pat. the greatest thing is the blanket...because she's very possessive of her toys...for her to go to her toy basket and bring me one of her blankets...that is SO generous of her...you have no idea!
Oh...I say put your toys away...and she'll go around the house picking them up and dropping them into her basket. (-;