Today, I revisited some reeeeaaaalllly old tricks with Mud that we haven't done in a very long time. One of them was "Bring me a Kleenex." She started off doing great, hasn't forgotten a thing. She'd pull one out of the box and bring it right to me without hesitation.
Then, she decided to be a smart alec. She decided she was supposed to bring me the whole box, not just one Kleenex. I can't decide if she was being an overachiever by bringing me more than she's supposed to, or an underachiever by not wanting to bring me one at a time! LOL! Made for a good laugh, anyway. She tried to bring me the whole box a few times, so I managed to get her to bring me one Kleenex, then quit before we both got frustrated.
We also worked on "Hut, hut, HIKE!"(her football hiking trick), which we haven't done in so long that I can't even remember how long ago it was. Well, since we've been working on picking up anything I drop, you can imagine how this one might have confused her. At first she kept trying to pick it up and bring it to me without even trying to paw at it. So this one took a little work too, but in a few tries she had remembered it.
Sometimes Border Collies are too smart for their own good. LOL! :msngiggle:
Then, she decided to be a smart alec. She decided she was supposed to bring me the whole box, not just one Kleenex. I can't decide if she was being an overachiever by bringing me more than she's supposed to, or an underachiever by not wanting to bring me one at a time! LOL! Made for a good laugh, anyway. She tried to bring me the whole box a few times, so I managed to get her to bring me one Kleenex, then quit before we both got frustrated.
We also worked on "Hut, hut, HIKE!"(her football hiking trick), which we haven't done in so long that I can't even remember how long ago it was. Well, since we've been working on picking up anything I drop, you can imagine how this one might have confused her. At first she kept trying to pick it up and bring it to me without even trying to paw at it. So this one took a little work too, but in a few tries she had remembered it.
Sometimes Border Collies are too smart for their own good. LOL! :msngiggle: