re: How smart is your dog?

We've got a sheepadoodle, she impresses me with how smart she can be. Picked up all the usual stuff pretty quick(sit, shake, laydown, stay, come, etc), rings a bell on the door when she wants to go outside, rings the doorstopper on the patio when she's ready to come in, figured out how to climb the ladder so she can get into the kids playhouse to hang out with them, for a while I was picking up her poop and tossing it in a little unused area on the side of the house for the rain to wash away and she now uses that as her designated pooping area. We have a few of those dog buttons for her at my office and she picked them up pretty quick for "outside" and "treat". We had to confiscate the "treat" button, she kept pressing it repeatedly, then would get an attitude when you wouldn't give her one.

Years back we had an Australian Shepard who HATED FedEx and UPS drivers. It was funny to watch him just hop up and start growling because he'd heard the truck turn down our street a half mile away.