re: How smart is your dog?

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My Australian Shepherd learned if I pulled out the cast iron skillet there was a high chance the smoke detectors would go off and she’d hide lol

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My German Shepherd sees me in the kitchen and she will plant herself there waiting on to give her something like cheese or some of the food I am cooking.

Our sweet lab mix can sit etc but will not retrieve at all. Great around other dogs and cats. She’s about 15 still goes on daily 1-2 mile walks in the foothills of northern Az.
She will wait for me to pick up her deposits and knows the way home.
Will stop in the shade and chill.

I have a 5 year old English Mastiff, he is smart but lazy. When he wants these salmon treats, he can do things that make me get wide eyed how smart he can be.

I have hound rescues

They are incredibly smart, just not people pleasers and quite hardheaded.

Hounds know commands, they just choose to ignore them.

My rat terrier/chihauha mix eats poo

Like most of my past dogs from very different breeds, my female pug is a brilliant retard. Just in different ways.

Our dog is 16 years old, can't see or hear great anymore but still jumping on furniture like she is a young pup. I really don't know if she will ever die.

oh to answer the OP's question, dumb as hell.

My lab regularly outsmarts my wife.

We feed our dogs at 5 pm everyday, just about, and at 4:55 one of them will go pick up his bowl and bring it to the child whose chore it is to feed the dogs. Also I kept shoveling his shite to one side of the yard and he eventually picked up that's where he should shite. It's amazing.

He also knows "go check on the kids" and he'll run upstairs or outside and check on the kids and come back. And "go see momma" he'll go jump in bed with my wife who goes to sleep before me. Likes to hold his own leash in his mouth when we walk, but I have to be careful because a squirrel could derail this trick.

All of this plus the standard things like sit, lay down, etc.

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He's also 120 lbs and thinks he's a lapdog, so that's an issue. Will actually get on the couch and try to curl up on your lap. Don't think we'll ever change his mind though

fricker stole a golf ball from our room and took it outside to destroy it. While trying to get him to drop it, I yelled, “show me the fricking ball!”. He put it to the front of his mouth, stared at me, then ran off.

If there are other dogs in the yard and everyone gets fed, he runs to the edge of the property and barks his head off, causing the rest to abandon their food. He runs back and scarfs down as much as he can until they return.