The Duke is one of the smartest dogs I’ve ever had. Not as smart as Tinker the Thinker. She was human in a dog suit. But maybe he is smarter in a different way.
Duke does what he pleases. He goes where he decides to go. He can jump all of our fences, break down doors and his desire to be our only dog has not diminished.
So the other day, Garry was outside, trying to get the hardened ice off the driveway and build a place to put the trash and recycling bins. He looked up into the window and there was the face of the Duke smiling down at him. From the window in my office.
My office isn’t my office anymore. It has become the room where we put things that we use sometimes, but not all the time. The Christmas tree is in there all wrapped in plastic as are the two big wooden nutcrackers.
The printer, router, and cable box, which the guy from Charter didn’t take with him. I think we need it anyway because it’s where we hook up the router. Which is how we send signals to the devices which use wi-fi. Computers, Kindles, iPads, and all that. Of course the two televisions. And an extra fold-up bed for a guest who might wander in from the cold.
The Duke was in that room. At the window. Smiling down at Garry.
Later that evening, in bed, Garry told me he’d seen the Duke peering out of the office window. I asked him if he’d closed the door to the office since Duke must have pushed the door open in to get to the window.
Garry said he hadn’t closed it because when he came in, the office door was closed. I said I hadn’t closed it either. In fact, had not been in that room at all that day.
So … who closed the door? The door has a standard round doorknob and opens inward, as do all the doors in the house. He could push it closed from in the room, but to close it? He would have to have pulled it closed from the hallway using the doorknob.
Doorknob? He doesn’t have hands. He has no thumbs.
So how did he close the door? Any explanation will do. I’ve known a few dogs who could close a gate, but never one who could close a door using a round doorknob.
Have you?
Categories: #animals, #Birds, #Photography, dogs, Humor
He works in wondrous ways….
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That clever Duke, he has a lot of secrets.
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And he barks it to the world. It’s just that I don’t understand Dog.
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I’m sure he wishes you did understand….
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Duke’s picture up there was so amusing. He KNOWS things, things he doesn’t share with humans…like how to teleport from one room to the next. Crafty boy, very sly!
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He is a secret wizard. That’s why he keeps chewing wood. Building a new wand!
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To be honest, no, but Loki is learning some interesting things. If the door is ajar, he’s learned he can come and go as he pleases which isn’t special in and of itself but still, amusing. He went with a walk with A and when they got back, A went to have a smoke, came back in and the dog was gone. He looked high and low couldn’t find him anywhere, did a tour of the neighbourhood lest he got out or someone took him. He finally checked my room. He’d gotten in, shut the door and was laying beside my bed. We laughed forever over that one.
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Sometimes they are too smart for their own good 😀
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He us, that’s for sure. He’s learned to spell. Omg, Porsche could spell too. Yikes.
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Uh…. his mouth. We had a cat sometimes show up (but we had lever handles on those doors)
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Even if it had lever handles — to close it from the hall, you have to PULL it. That’s the final puzzle.
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I bet he used his mouth or a strong gust of wind…. ghost! 🤔
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With all the windows closed? Definitely ghost!
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Such a handsome and smart (evidently!) boy. Maybe even a shape-shifter???
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He is a bird without wings.
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