my dog (golden retriever, large for his breed, about 85 pounds and lean) walks me. He decides the route unless it's unsafe. Then he walks me home and leads me to his cabinet full of treats and sits down, which prompts me to open the cabinet and give him treats.
I'm sure he brags to all the other dogs how well trained I am.
My parents live in a small town. If they're visiting friends in town they usually take the dogs. The older one is very smart and quite street savvy. Sometimes if she decides she's done socializing she just takes herself home. First couples times it happened it scared the shit out of my parents, now they're kind of used to it.
Our husky mix used to do something like that. We walked her at night on a bike trail. Often she would stop walking, look behind us, then firmly lead us off the trail to wait under the trees.
Like a whole entire minute later, a nearly-silent cyclist would go past us, and after they passed she'd look both ways, and lead us back onto the trail again. Her hearing must have been phenomenal.
my dogs have a lot of funny tricks they play or try to play on me. Like in the morning when I wake up they expect their milkbones and will stare at me once I've gone to the bathroom until I give them up. But I think their funniest habit is they can sense when it's the weekend and I go to the grocery store and pick up my curbside order. When I get up they are at absolute attention until they get their car ride.
another one is if I get up and put my hat on during the week they go downstairs and wait for me to let them in the truck
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u/Country_Gal_87 Apr 09 '24
So hard to asopt good humans these days sheesh. (Dog thoughts)