My dogs are dumb. Like, really dumb.

[FastHands]

The dogs' crates are usually in the far corner of our living room. This, incidentally, is the only good place to put the Christmas tree. As of 12/1, their crates were moved to the office. Naturally, I expect a bit of confusion as they figure out what's going on.

What lands them in the OMG HOW ARE YOU THIS DUMB Club is two-fold:
1) Their crates have been in the office for 19 days. The Great Flood would be half over, and you can't yet figure out that your crates have moved 20 feet away?

2) When I say "go kennel," they run to the Christmas tree. Ok, fine, you're excited about the treat you're about to get and forgot the change. They run back to the kitchen where I am fetching said treat. I laugh and say "no, go kennel!" and point to the office. THEY RUN BACK TO THE CHRISTMAS TREE. As if, perhaps, in the 2 seconds it took them to run to the kitchen, the Grinch had stolen our Christmas tree and was nice enough to put their crates back in its spot.

SO DUMB.

[Muddled]

I love them.

[mrsbro]

This made me laugh out loud. I love dumb pet stories

[Monica Geller]

LOL!!

[FastHands]

Dec 19, 2014 8:53:28 GMT -5 @licia said:

My dad has this gibberish saying when animals are acting dumb. He calls them lumlows. Rhymes with dumbo, but I guess he feels bad about calling them straight up dumb.

You got yourself two lumlows there.

Oh most definitely. The younger/smaller female only runs back to the tree once, and then she's like "oh right!" and goes to her crate in the office. The older/larger male? At least 3 trips to the tree. Eventually I just have him follow me.

DH has this issue with the fact that the female is the clear alpha. This morning during the 3rd Tree Lap, I said "omg you are so dumb," looked at my husband, and said, "do we REALLY have to question how/why she is alpha?!"

[FastHands]

Dec 19, 2014 8:53:57 GMT -5 superduper said:

LOL

I once flipped my dogs crate around so that the door was facing a different direction. He sat in his crate crying for me to let him out in spite of the open door behind him. I stood there repeatedly telling him to come out, he never turned around. I eventually had to pull him out.

LOL!

[lightbulbsun]

haha! I feel like my dogs would be the same. Once I put a treat under a plastic cup, to see how long it took my dogs to get it, and they could NOT figure out what happened to the treat. It just disappeared, and then walked around the cup looking for it for a while before staring at me and whining.

Also, my little dog got stuck on a chair, not once, but several times. We had an office chair that had wheels and rotated, and she would jump on it and then get scared when it rolled on our wood floors, and she wouldn't want to move. Once we couldn't find her for almost 4 hours, and were looking everywhere for her and thought she might have gotten out of the fence. Nope, she was stuck on the chair.

[noradog]

Dec 19, 2014 9:04:23 GMT -5 lightbulbsun said:

haha! I feel like my dogs would be the same. Once I put a treat under a plastic cup, to see how long it took my dogs to get it, and they could NOT figure out what happened to the treat. It just disappeared, and then walked around the cup looking for it for a while before staring at me and whining.

Also, my little dog got stuck on a chair, not once, but several times. We had an office chair that had wheels and rotated, and she would jump on it and then get scared when it rolled on our wood floors, and she wouldn't want to move. Once we couldn't find her for almost 4 hours, and were looking everywhere for her and thought she might have gotten out of the fence. Nope, she was stuck on the chair.

The poor dog on the chair is hysterical.  I can just imagine the look on her face.

Nora is pretty smart, but if a baby gate is propped in front of a doorway, even if it doesn't cover the complete opening, she will not go through.  Apparently there is a force field.  (More likely she's afraid she'll knock it over and it'll make the big scary noise)

[lightbulbsun]

Dec 19, 2014 9:12:31 GMT -5 noradog said:

Dec 19, 2014 9:04:23 GMT -5 lightbulbsun said:

haha! I feel like my dogs would be the same. Once I put a treat under a plastic cup, to see how long it took my dogs to get it, and they could NOT figure out what happened to the treat. It just disappeared, and then walked around the cup looking for it for a while before staring at me and whining.

Also, my little dog got stuck on a chair, not once, but several times. We had an office chair that had wheels and rotated, and she would jump on it and then get scared when it rolled on our wood floors, and she wouldn't want to move. Once we couldn't find her for almost 4 hours, and were looking everywhere for her and thought she might have gotten out of the fence. Nope, she was stuck on the chair.

The poor dog on the chair is hysterical.  I can just imagine the look on her face.

Nora is pretty smart, but if a baby gate is propped in front of a doorway, even if it doesn't cover the complete opening, she will not go through.  Apparently there is a force field.  (More likely she's afraid she'll knock it over and it'll make the big scary noise)

She looked so pathetic, haha.  The craziest thing was we were calling her and calling her and she didn't make any noise!

[mrsukyankee]

And now I have to go and place a treat under a red plastic cup to see if Barney can figure it out. My guess...no.

[picaflora]

Dottie is tough to fool - she knows where her room is (harder to move) and to get in the crate at my Mom's house for food.

Peanut (dog in avatar) though... wasn't the smartest boy. We'd move his crate for the same reasons, and it would always confuse him. Once we switched his crate with an end table. You would tell him to go kennel, and he'd go to the end table, look really confused, then climb up on the shelf at the bottom of the table and lay down. Really?? He hated moving. He wouldn't be able to find anything for a month.

[FastHands]

Dec 19, 2014 10:32:32 GMT -5 picaflora said:

Dottie is tough to fool - she knows where her room is (harder to move) and to get in the crate at my Mom's house for food.

Peanut (dog in avatar) though... wasn't the smartest boy. We'd move his crate for the same reasons, and it would always confuse him. Once we switched his crate with an end table. You would tell him to go kennel, and he'd go to the end table, look really confused, then climb up on the shelf at the bottom of the table and lay down. Really?? He hated moving. He wouldn't be able to find anything for a month.

*SNORT* I feel like my older dog would do that. You can just see the wheels turning, like, "okay, this is where my crate WAS. Now this thing is here. Sooo it must be my new crate. Elevated flooring, interesting!"