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Too Smart - A Diesel Story

Nik

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This morning my husband and I were enjoying some alone time in our room and talking and he says "Shhh hold on." So we are silent a few minutes and then he says "Oh nevermind I thought I heard a squeak toy". We don't leave the dogs with squeak toys unsupervised because they can destroy them and swallow the squeakers within minutes... We know this from experience.

We return to our conversation and then suddenly I hear it. "No... I just heard a squeaker too" So we head out to the living room and kitchen to check. The kitchen gate is wide open (we always lock Diesel in the kitchen when unsupervised) and he is slunk down in guilty pose staring up at us.... We hunt around for said squeaker sound source and find in his toy box in the living room a soaking wet squeaky toy.

Turns out he snuck out to the living room because husband forgot to set the child lock on the gate (he can open it if the child lock isn't set) and had been playing with the squeaker toy and listening for us so as not to get caught. When our conversation stopped he stopped playing. When he heard us leave the room he was smart enough to put the toy back in the box and sneak back to his kitchen area. The only thing he isn't smart enough to do is close the gate behind him and not act guilty. Still that Diesel of mine is one smart puppy.
 

Pastor Dave

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About all of the toys I buy are mostly destroyed except for the squeaky chicken from Walmart...we have two, different colors, and these get carried around but not torn up....I don't know why. The rubber pigs and so on are destroyed.
 

Nik

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About all of the toys I buy are mostly destroyed except for the squeaky chicken from Walmart...we have two, different colors, and these get carried around but not torn up....I don't know why. The rubber pigs and so on are destroyed.
The only toys my dogs have not destroyed are these nerf footballs for dogs that we have as strictly outdoor toys. They love those things and for some reason haven't destroyed them. They also have these dragons I got them as babies which they haven't destroyed. They are not strong toys and could easily be destroyed they just haven't. But, I limit their play time with those now.
 

Nik

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Yes very smart! What I find crazy is all those brains and yet he can't stop himself from the extreme show of guilt whenever he does something bad. He full on hunkers to the ground head hung, eyes up at me (with his tail wagging hopefully along the ground). Smart but he can't hide what he is thinking. lol Most of the time I don't even know he has done something wrong until I notice him in guilty pose and then I have to hunt for whatever it was he did.
 

Sheila Braund

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Hahahaha! Love it..... Yes these dogs we have are very smart! I can't wait for the day when Diesel figures out how to shut the gate..... Thanks for sharing this store!
 
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Boxergirl

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Ella gives herself away too! There are toys she's just not allowed to have because she destroys them in one minute. I always know if I've forgotten to pick one up because she goes overboard pretending that she doesn't have anything. It's very funny. My boxers? They're the best fibbers ever.
 

Smokeycat

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Kryten gets a distinct look in his eyes when he has something he shouldn't even when there is nothing visible. The last time I had him in a pet store he grabbed something while I was talking to an employee and my gaze was away from him. Neither of us saw him move but when I looked at him I knew there was something in his mouth. When I told him to drop it it turned out that he had a large pigs ear in his closed mouth.
Jiggers occasionally let's you know he has something he shouldn't, usually a cat toy, but that's because they typically make noise that his toys don't. He doesn't seem to feel guilt or remorse when caught only frustration that he didn't get to keep 'his' toy. He tends to huff when it gets taken away and thrown back downstairs.