25+ Of The Most Unbelievably Smart Things Animals Have Done That Surprised People

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#13

There was a flock of little birds outside of a French bakery in California. They would pick at bits of scones and croissants people threw away in the trash cans nearby, and many of them would approach people for scraps. We noticed one particular bird hopping around on one leg pray for scraps, and we gave it a little bit of our bread. As soon as it had the bit of food in its nose, I swear to god it appeared right at me and dropped its other leg to the ground.

#14

Every morning for breakfast I always eat fruit and that weekend there was a farmers marketplace selling fruit for cheap so I bought a TON. I couldn’t fit them in the fridge so I left a few bags on the side in the dining room( reachable distance)

I **** you not, I woke up and was surprised to see an apple next to me. Over the next few days, my dog would get up in the morning, go in the bag, and get a fruit to put next to me on the bed. He proceeded to do this for the next two weeks until we ran out. I thought it was the cutest thing ever but a part of me is like holy ****.

#15

I have a blind( born with fucked up eyes ), 150 lbs of solid muscle, American Bulldog.

He loves everyone. If he hears a new voice, the “love wiggles” begin. He is just a huge lover dog. Sleeps with my 4-year-old every night. Get along with my the bag of cats and other dogs.

Just a giant sweetheart.

Well, a run buddy of mine gave me a ride home once. Invited him in for a bit. We walk in. My pup starts his love wiggles…

…and stops. Ears fall. Tail sags. His expression alters from his usual happy-go-lucky self into … the dog he looks like: A vicious monster.

Well … he bears his teeth, starts growling at my buddy, and when my son walked into the room, he went nuts. He lunged at my buddy, snarling, teeth barred.

WTF? He never acts like this. EVER.

I was so confused and embarrassed. My buddy leaves. I chided my pup. Life goes on.

Fast forward a few months and it turns out the buddy of mine from work is arrested for possession of kiddy-porn.

My blind beast who loves everyone … somehow knew to hate this guy. He instinctively disliked him. And when my son came into the room, he went into protect-mode and tried to get the guy.

Creepy stuff.

#16

My cat can operate the recliner, turn on/ off the faucet, open doors, turn off suns, and defeat her food dispenser( she found the button that dispenses regardless of the timer ).

At this point, it’s like having a fat, furry roommate.

#17

My parent’s old puppy would bring people’s shoes to them, and she always matched the right shoes to the right people. It was especially awesome when we would have company that overstayed their welcome( my folks are farmers who like to go to bed early) when she would walk up and drop their shoes in their lap.

#18

This was my dog.

I was eating a bagel on the couch and he was sitting on the floor next to me, merely eyeing me down. You could tell he wanted some, but I wasn’t giving in to his cute persuasions.

He calmly strolls over the mudroom doorway and rings his buzzer that lets us know that he has to go to the bathroom. So I get off the couch, set my bagel on the coffee table and walk into the mudroom. Well between the time I get up and strolled to the mudroom door, he operated around, back through the kitchen and had snagged my bagel off the table. I didn’t even try to get it back from him, the slick motherfucker deserved his prize.

I realise who was the smartest being in the house that day.

#19

My childhood horse would play tag with me. She would run away, I would run after her, as soon as I cornered and tapped her I would run. She’d get really excited and go in a few circles before catching up to me and poking me with her snout. Then she would prance off.

Sometimes she would pretend to be tired and stand still, but when my fingers were mere inches from her nose, she would whirl around and take off across the field. I swear she was laughing.

Edit- there was a smarter horse that I only briefly had, but his trick wasn’t as fun. He could open the latch on his stalling doorway, get out into the barn, and open the stalls of the other horses. Except for Jasmine. Jasmine was a bitch and he wouldn’t open her stall.

Once the door to the feed room was left cracked and he got in and the horses feed from the barrels.

But largely they’d just end up prancing around the barn, and he’d open the gate to the field and they’d all merely hang out there until someone came and forced them back into the stalls.

#20

We used to have two kittens. One day at the dinner table one of them stood up and set two paws on my dad’s lap. We all giggled at her obvious endeavor at trying to steal food. While our attention was focussed on her, her sister jumped straight onto the table and stole a whole chicken drumstick. They both sprinted away and shared it nearby.

We were all impressed.

#22

When my big orange tabby cat wanted me up to feed him breakfast he got into the habit of coming into the bedroom and meowing loudly around 5 am. I soon cured him of that by get up and quietly locking him in the bathroom for an hour or so while I got some more sleep. Sure enough, after a few hours, he stopped waking me up with those loud “MEOOOWS! “

But I detected I still would wake up early for some unknown reason with the cat on the floor by my bed look at this place me expecting breakfast. It wasn’t until one morning when I woke up really early and was just lying in bed thinking of getting up when I hear the smallest meow you could ever hear -just a little tiny kitten like “mew”. He then waited a minute or two and then repeated. He basically did this non-stop at irregular intervals simply within hearing scope so I wouldn’t know that he had woken me up.

Smart cat.

#23

Once, my mum fell while walking the dogs and they started running away. She had hurt her knee so she couldn’t get up straight away.

My goldie grabbed the leash of my other puppy and pulled him back towards my mum and wouldn’t let go until she got up. So proud of him: ‘(

#24

I had an Australian Shepherd that I swore just plain understood English.

One day, we had a friend visiting from out of town and she had her little sheltie mix named Ginger with her. The friend lived in the city whereas we lived out in the country, so her puppy was usually never outside without being on a leash, but my dogs free roam.

She decided to let Ginger off the leash. After a few minutes of exploring the yard, Ginger started to go into the timbers. My friend get nervous and tried to call her back, but she wouldn’t come.

My Aussie, Bauser, was there at my foot. In a conversational tone, I said, “Bauser, run get Ginger and bring her back.”

Bauser got up, went over to where Ginger was in the timbers, had a little “woof” conversation, and they both came trotting back.

My friend’s jaw dropped. “How did you get her to do that ??! “

Honestly, I was just as amazed as she was!

#25

We once came home to find my puppy had rent into a multi-pack of mini chocolate bars and sweets and gone to town on them. However, we couldn’t bring ourselves to tell him off because he’d also placed an unopened chocolate on my bed, my sister’s bed and my parents’ bed. I guess he supposed if he shared the chocolate with us all we wouldn’t be mad.

#26

I don’t genuinely know if this applies as “calculated”, but I have ensure a cat get embarrassed.

I live down south in the US where green tree frogs are abundant. I had a cat that would stare out of the window, as they do. One night there was a tree fog, on the outside of the window. Towards the top. My cat crept up, stuck a paw towards it halfway, then stopped before touching the glass. She did it again. Then on the third try, she speedily booped the glass with her paw, realise the frog was on the outside. I swear on my life this cat turned and seemed around the room to make sure no one else had seen this happen. When “shes seen” me looking at her, her eyes got wide and she ran off.

That may not be what was going through her head, but I like to think so.

#27

I use to find dead mice in my dog’s water bowl. I couldn’t figure out why these stupid mouse kept drowning themselves. Then, one day, I was watching my dog stalking a mouse on the back porch. She caught it in her teeth, brought it to the water bowl, and held it under water with her teeth until it drowned. Walked away like it was nothing.

Scariest thing I’ve ever seen.

#28

I had a Jack Russell Terrier bitch that was just scary smart. She figured out how to open the refrigerator door, then the drawer inside to help herself to the cold cuts when she was only 10 weeks old.

She could escape from her cage without opening the door too( again when still a tiny puppy ). She had me stumped on this one for a while. We were visiting my sister-in-law and had gone out to dinner. When we left, the dog was in her crate, the door latched. When we came home, the dog was out of her crate and the door was still closed and latched.

WTF? Did she shut the door behind her after she got out?

Nope. What she would do was to climb up in the corner of the crate, and use her head to force the lid of the crate up enough for her to squeeze through. No muss , no fuss, but it amazed the hell out of me until I ensure her do it.

She also warned us of two kitchen fires before they could spread and do any damage. There were also two men in our neighborhood( we lived near the beach, so there were a lot of people out walking in such areas ), whose mere presence would set the dog to growling and get very aggressive. She did this on more than one occasion with each of the men when they approached my wife while she was out strolling the dog. My wife was smart enough to trust the dog’s instincts and not let either of the men get close. Turns out that one of the men was mentally ill and would sometimes attack people when he was off his meds, and the other was a flat-out rapist.

When my brother visited us in NY from Arizona( in March ), he was miserable. He had muscular dystrophy and was always thin and frail. The sudden change from dry, hot Arizona, to cold, damp NY left him cold and ridden with deep bone aches. My other Jack Russell Terrier, the sweetest, best behaved dog I’ve ever had, expended my brother’s entire visit sitting on his lap or snuggling with him. We’re convince that he was doing so because he sensed how my brother was feeling. There were lots of other laps to sit on, but pretty much every minute that the dog wasn’t eating or doing his business outside he spent with my brother.

#29

When I was about 11 or 12 years old I was with my family on a beach. There was a seagull there that had stolen a sandwich from our beach blanket. It had grabbed the sandwich, flew away and landed about 100 feet from us.

So I picked up a racquetball and tried to made the seagull with it. I missed but was close enough to startle the seagull. It flew into the air, swooped back up, picked up the ball, and proceeded to drop it like 200 yards out at sea.

#30

My cat sleeps exclusively on the couch in the cellar. The problem is, he won’t stay downstairs unless you do his bedtime ritual.

It starts with him looking at you and meowing, to which you have to respond with, “Wanna go to bed? ” Once you answer, he meows again and operates downstairs and waits by the basement door for you. You have to pet him and tell him he’s a good son until he’s satisfied, then he goes to the first stair and waits for you to shut the door. Then and only then will he go to the couch to sleep.

#32

My birds steal batteries out of electronics. Remotes, beard trimmers, fire alarms, you name it. They don’t do anything with the batteries, just take them out and then laugh at me and dance when I find them.

Conures are dickheads, but I love them.

#33

I once saw a cat put his paw over the buzzers of its collar and three-leg ambush a bird, full stealth mode.

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#35

I take my dog to the beach almost every day, and one of the first things she does is grab a stick for me to throw.

She’ll occasionally find these enormous sticks that are far too heavy, or big knobby things that are too awkward to hurl. So one day about four years ago, when she brought me this impracticality huge tree branch, I told her, “That stick sucks. Go get a different one.”

And she did. She dropped the huge stick, hunted for a different one, and brought it to me.

This happens all the time now. She’ll bring me a stick I can’t or don’t want to throw, I’ll tell her it sucks and to go get a different one, and she does it every time.

#36

My chihuahua implores to go outside right before dinner. Our Husky is extremely in social and picks up on anything so he starts to beg to go outside too. When we open the back door the husky sprints outside and the chihuahua operates back in to eat her food in peace.

#37

I had a cat, who has since passed of natural causes, that was ridiculously smart. He was let outdoors but always slept inside at night. We had recently find some abandoned kittens which we fed, and they made a home in our backyard. One night our indoor cat came up to my room meowing incessantly and left, so I dismissed him. He came back again a couple of minutes later and then left, so again I let him be. The third hour he did this I decided to follow him and he led me to the sliding glass back entrance and merely stood there. I turned on the illuminate and seemed outside and these poor kittens were cornered by some raccoons. The showdown had not become physical yet, thankfully, and I managed to scare the raccoons away. I am still astonished to this day by some of the things this cat did.

#38

Just up the street from my apartment in San Francisco, there was one of those fast food eateries that was either a KFC or a Taco Bell, depending on the angle from which it was viewed. The establishment was a frequent stopping point for students coming from the nearby college … and those students were a frequent target for a remarkably bright crow.

Now, on most days, the bird in question would just hang around the restaurant( as well as other ones nearby) and scavenge for scraps. Every once in a while, though – I saw this happen twice, and had it happen to me once – it would enact a much more complex scheme than simply going through the trough: The crow had apparently discovered that money could be exchanged for food, so it would wait until it watched a likely mark, squawk at them to get their attention, then pick up and drop-off a coin. Anyone who responded would witness the bird hopping a few feet away, then following its “victim” toward the source of its next snack.

When the crow approached me, it dropped a nickel on the ground. I stooped, picked up the coin, and then jumped slightly when the bird made a noise that voiced not unlike “Taco! “

Needless to say, I bought that crow a taco.

The final out-of-pocket expense for me, minus the nickel, was something like $ 1.15. Even so, I figured a bird that smart-alecky deserved a reward simply for existing.

Of course, that was probably exactly what I was supposed to think.

TL ;D R: A crow paid me five cents to buy it a taco.

#39

My dog would ring the doorbell when she wanted inside. One day my Uncle was visiting and the doorbell rang and he said “Oh are you expecting guests? ” My Mom said “Nope. It’s merely Sadie. She wants inside.”

The look on my Uncle’s face! Hahahaha!

#40

Every day when my brother and I pull in the driveway from school we can see our dog on my brother’s bed in the window above the garage, where he knows he isn’t allowed to be. When we walk into the house he is laying behind the living room couch and picks his head up and looks at us like he’s been sleeping there all day.

#42

My cat, Tuffy stole a piece of bread off the stove and set it on the floor next to the cabinet. She then stared at it intensely, and motionlessly for an hour. We thought that was creepy. Then a mouse came out from behind the cabinet to get the bread and she pounced it! She was using the bread as motherf *** ing bait! This is the same cat who routinely burns her tongue licking lightbulbs, hisses at them, and keeps licking.

#43

We had a mouse in our home so we set some traps. I read somewhere that chocolate is more effective than cheese at attracting mice so I set a piece of chocolate in the trap…..

For days and days the mouse avoided the traps. We would still see it scurrying around from time to time, it only never ran near the traps….

Then, one night, I came home from the pub, turned on the kitchen light and considered the mouse! It approached the trap slowly. ‘This is it! ‘ I guessed, I’m gonna see Stuart Little get crushed !…

Then, the mouse did a clever thing. It went to the SIDE of the trap, avoiding the trigger…carefully reached its little paws in, snatched the chocolate then scurried away with its prize! I stood there dumbfounded, I’d been outwitted by a mouse!

After that, I took away the traps. It didn’t seem right to kill such an intelligent, thinking animal. The mouse disappeared of its own accord.

#44

My horse knows how to unlock gates with his nose. Most of the stallings have a slide lock that they usually just leave alone. Not Rex. We had to set a bottom lock on the door he couldn’t reach.

One day one of the newer people locked him in his stall but forgot the bottom latch; then walked away. Rex unlocked his door and then went to the other stallings and let the other ponies out. Then he led them on a charge to grassy freedom.

#45

Our Rottweiler Lila( Lee-lah – German for purple) was incredibly intelligent. She also was able to differentiate her dolls, even the different types of balls, by the names we dedicate them. If we told her to get her green ball, she’d get her green ball. If we said red ball, she’d get the red one. These were usually different colored tennis balls, but she knew which was which. After I came home from a few weeks in the hospital post-surgical, my husband told Lila that “mommy has a boo boo on her belly” and when he let her in the room with me, she sat in front of me and gently laid her head on my belly. Not the usual jumping on me for attention. There are so many more things to tell you. She was an amazing pup! We miss her so much!

#46

I used to work at a grocery store, and every day a grackle would fly in and take food that was for samples, or waste that fell on the ground. It would always fly out before half the store was locked to begin closing.

Later on, it brought its newborn in and started teach it to avoid customers and getting caught while getting samples. It was great.

#47

My rabbit was a freaking genius. She was a mini rex. She would teach herself to jump higher and higher to get out obstacles I used to keep her in her play room. She figured out how to open her enclosure door so she could leave. Every place I hid food, even places that should have been out-of-her-reach, she got to.

I was never as impressed with her as I was with her daughter, though. Her daughter escaped their enclosure when she still was blind, deaf, and furless.( I didn’t even recognize her as a rabbit, but I remembered my rabbit making a nest and realise this ugly thing must be a rabbit .) I watched her train herself to use the litterbox at 3 weeks old. She also tried to kick the vet in the face when the veterinarian tried to determine what sexuality she was. She was great. I bet if I contacted the people whom I devoted her to, they’d have some great stories for me too.

#48

My cat gave my husband a dead mouse by put it on his phone. The thing that’s clearly most important to him. Also, my cat and puppy would team up for mouse hunts.

#49

When I was in high school, we had two cats: an older, wheezing bob-cat-tailed female named Afre and a young, pure white male named Inqua. One day I was home sick and Afre fell asleep on the couch behind me, while Inqua and I curled up in a chair together watching TV. Now, when Afre would sleep, she could be louder than a freaking chainsaw, and it was driving me nuts that day for some reason. So, jokingly, I looked down at Inqua and said, “Care to help me out here? Why don’t you go wake her up, she’ll want to move to the sunshine about now anyway.”
I kid you not, Inqua get down off my lap, padded over to the couch, jumped up, and proceeded to bat Afre awake. Job accomplished, he hopped back up, came back over to me, jumped up, and curled right back in the place on my lap. He didn’t seem bothered by the fact that I was just staring at him in astonishment.

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#52

One time my dog was chasing my cat. The cat usually would just run to the basement, but not this time. The cat simply ducked behind the first stair. My dog assumed the cat had just run down the stairs and very nonchalantly turned around. As soon as he did, my cat gave me this look like “Watch this ****. ” He jumped several feet in the air onto my puppies back and scared the **** outta him. Clawed him pretty good too. Seriously that was the last time the dog harassed the cat.

#53

Was at a zoo. Saw a monkey with its hand on its brow shielding its eyes from the sunshine. Came back five minutes later. The monkey now had a trash can lid on its head. Instant shade. Problem solved.

#54

My boy Ribbit will offer up all kinds of tricks and behaviors in an effort to get food. He knows around 50 different words and commands and can understand more complex sentences, like a verb and a noun( “Go get your fuzzy ball” – he will bring his fuzzy ball to me ).

My favorite was when I was trying to train my younger puppy, Minnow, to stand on her hind legs and walk. Ribbit was already proficient in this but he’s super food motivated so he will usually do the same behavior asked of Minnow to get a treat.

I held the treat out high enough that Minnow would have to stand up to reach it. From across the room, Ribbit got on his hind legs, strolled over to the food, and calmly ate it.

Training is done separately now.

#55

When I was in kindergarten we went to the zoo.

The first enclosure is a big area with what I think were chimpanzees, it was too long ago to remember.

There was a sign that said you had to be silent to not disturb the monkeys.

This one kid Frederic didn’t shut his mouth and a monkey simply grabbed a peanut and hurled it over 70 yards and hit the child right in the head. That shut him up…

Edit: to the people saying it didn’t throw it 70 yards, you didn’t consider him do it. I went back to that zoo and the enclosing is huge.

#56

#57

Posted this to another thread awhile ago, but think it fits here as well:

My vet is set-up on an acreage, and on that acreage roam a band of donkeys. Awesome donkeys. The kind with big ears, fat bellies, small hooves, but still solid as a brick house. Sadly, my dog got very sick very fast and we had to euthanize him. Given the locating, we had the choice of letting him go outside, which of course we did. During the process, the donkeys slowly started surrounding us. Most of them kept a respectable distance, but one maintained backing up until she was physically touching my dog. It got to the point where I was trying to push her away( or at least shield my dog from getting stepped on ), but she didn’t move. Not even a inch. The moment my dog was gone, like the actual moment his soul left his body, the donkey broke her physical connection with my dog and the band scattered. One minute we were surrounded by donkeys and the next they were gone. All of them, just like that.
That was the worst day of my life, but also one of my most treasured memories.

#58

My dog once outsmarted me– he tricked me into get up to let him out on a cold winter morning…only as soon as I turned the corner he jumped up into my warm spot in the bed, curled up tight, and then studiously ignored me when I came back in the room. That jackass. Best puppy ever.

#59

I have two male rats who are smarter than some people. I set 3 shoe boxes and a few paper towel tube in their cage, and they were able to shred 1 box down to a size they could step in, and out the shredding in to make a little box which they use, they clean there own littler box by participating in the shreds of paper that are to wet/ soiled out and sets it in a smaller box I put in there enclosure as a trash can. They took the other two boxes and make a two-room rat hotel. with door and windows, the used the paper towel tubings as a shoot to send food from their bowel straight into their rat hotel. When they would eat they would have 1 or 2 blocks at the bowel then set 5 or 6 down the shoot for later. They also worked out how to unlock their cage.

Also had a dog I was fostering who was HYPER as hell. He would torment my old much calmer dog. After a few days, my older puppy began concealing from the HYPER dog, this worked well at first. But My older pup being the guard dog he is will bark if he hears person knocking at the door. So HYPER dog took a hard rubber doll and banged it on the door 2 or 3 times then he would wait until the old puppy would bark come running to protect his home from the person at the door, only to be ambushed by the HYPER pup. My older dog never caught on to his trick either.

#60

Two things. First, witnessed an adult squirrel lining up about 6 baby squirrels and teach them how to raid our squirrel-proof bird feeder. The adult had each baby practice it separately at the end of his demo. Second, a goose at the side of the road waited until my automobile was close enough and about to pass by and then it chased his friend out in front of me in attempted assassination( I swerved so “hes not” successful ).

#62

I was about 15 when my sister got a Yorkie that was really smart and his facial expressions were human-like. Anyways, me and my friend were in my above ground pool in Florida, cause we’re white trash, and he thought it would be funny to throw my sister’s dog in the pond. The dog detested get wet, but my friend hurled him in anyways. The dog got out by itself and dedicated the most human-like death stare to my friend. I told him “you better watch out man, that dog’s smart AF.” The dog goes inside finds HIS clothes out of pile of clothes on the ground. I mean his shirts, socks, pants and underwear. Drags them outside one by one to where we can see them from the pool. We eventually notice him and he is just death staring my friend down waiting for us to look. As soon as we turned our heads and saw him he proceeds to exhaustively drench my friends’s clothes in piss and then trot of like he couldn’t devote AF. SMartest dog I’ve ever fulfilled to this day.

#63

My mom’s parrot. She’s a blue and gold macaw named Lola. Lola feeds a lot of people food on top of her regular diet, she especially loves pizza, dried spaghetti noodles, and cheese.

So one day, mama cuts up some cheese and an apple. She opens Lola’s cage and gives her an apple slice. Lola wanted cheese but Lola can’t fly. So she grabbed the apple slice, climbed down her cage, operated backwards through the heavy carpet on the floor( because she hasn’t figured out how to run forwards in her 16 years ). She climbs up the couch mama is sitting on, hops on her lap, looks at her and puts the apple slice on mamas plate. She then takes a slice of cheese, looks at mom, climbs back up the couch and across the floor, up her enclosure and onto her perch and proceeds to eat the cheese.

That bird has done some funny ****, but this took the cake for me.

#64

A land scraper I know discovered a baby crow and raised it up before releasing it. “hes taking” it around in his truck while mowing lawns all summertime one year. After the released it the crow would follow him from job to task and just has been dragging on. Foward a few years the crow would still show up, but mostly merely at lunch period. It knew his routine and just stopped by for the good parts, lunch..

#65

My cat learned exactly where to place his paws on my chest and neck in order to force me to get up or suffocate.

He now does this whenever he thinks he’s starving…

#66

Growing up, I had a yard that was surrounded by fence except at the entryway where the cars came in at the front. My dog knew she wasn’t allowed to go outside the yard so when we’d call her and she was out gallavanting, she would go to the neighbor’s yard in the back, hop the fencing and come back over then strut around the back side to the front like ‘hey, I’ve been been here the whole time! I only found out because one day I was walking around the house calling for her and caught her. Sneaky ****.

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#68

I got my dog from the city pound about 12 years ago. I’d never had a dog bigger than like 15 lbs or one that ever actually played fetch. I was torn between her and an American Eskimo. I mentally decided that if she fetched the tennis ball and brought it to my hand I’d picked her. She did and never again in 12 f *** ing years has she fetched s ** t.

#69

My boyfriend was traveling for run every single week. The day before, he packed his purse for the travel as usual. In the morning he was prepared to take his container and go to the airport, merely to find that it was completely empty.
As it turns out, our white swiss shepherd altogether took all of his clothes out of it, up until the last sock, and concealed all of them in the bathtub, so he wouldn’t leave.

#70

There was a time when, coming back from a journey, the balls of my feet were swollen and it hurt going up and down the stairs. My cat, that little s ** t, would actually imitate me by limping up and down the stairs( taking the steps one at a time) while meowing pitifully. I Swear if he could talk, he would’ve said something like “see, this is how stupid you look.”

#72

My dog known to be to wind down the window in the car, I’m always impressed.

#73

My girlfriend has a rule that her puppy is not allowed in the kitchen. Whenever he tries to break this rule she sets him on the carpet right outside the kitchen with a stern talking to.

The second she turns her back he will slide one paw forward like 2 inches to barely touch the kitchen floor.

Her dog is very passive aggressive. Kinda like his owner.

#74

A squirrel once jumped on my hood of the car, and merely sat there( I wasn’t going too fast) catching a ride. When I stopped he gracefully slid off and gone on his merry way.

#75

I once watched a pigeon jay-walk.

It never once tried to fly. It merely walked to the edge of the curb. Looked both ways for automobiles, and then started strolling. Got to the yellow line on the road and stopped again. It waited while a few automobiles went by, and then seemed both styles again, and continued walking across to the other curb.

It was fascinating. It must have learned by watching other people doing it.

#76

My dog Aries wasn’t allowed to sleep in bed because he was so big and there was just no room.

One night Aries awake up my father and started pacing and pushing on the door acting like he wanted to go out, so my daddy get out of bed and walked him down the hallway to the backdoor to let him out.

The second my daddy touched the door Aries turned around and bolted back to the bedroom and jumped in bed, get under the coverings and laid next to my mama, taking up all the room. I suppose my daddy merely slept on the couch the rest of the night because he was so impressed with his planning.

#77

My dog will actually hold a credit card and give it to a cashier at a pet store or something. He then waits and he holds his pouch and carries it out.

Also, he pees on command. No joke

#78

We had a Dachshund growing up and he could tell when my mom was going to have a seizure. He would start circling her over and over, barking.

Ironically, he aimed up with epilepsy himself but it didn’t shorten his lifespan. They helped each other out. He lived for 17.5 years! I miss that dog.

Edited to add: My mom had epilepsy since she was 15. Unrelated to the dog, which she got in her 30 ‘s. Our dog wasn’t trained. He simply did it.

#79

One of my cats learned how to turn the internet off. I mean, he realise everybody runs crazy when he goes behind the TV stand and mess up with the wires.

So when we’re not paying enough attention to him( usually if we’re on our phones or the computer ), he merely unplugs the router. I don’t think he knows how much power he has.

#80

A few years ago, there were a few slicings of bread in the middle of the street for whatever reason. A crow maintained flying down and treating themselves, but whenever they did, one of the neighborhood dogs came and chased them off. The crow tried about three times to eat in peace, but the dog chased it off every time.

So the crow then decided to land a little bit away from the slices of bread and the dog operated towards it. The crow then flew off and landed about a meter away from where it merely landed. The dog followed again. The crow recurred this until the dog was in a different street and then the crow came back and chowed down.

#82

My cats teamed up and got the tub of butter off the kitchen worktop, took it outside, removed the lid

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