Dr. Stanley Coren, DVM wrote several books about dogs, one called "The Intelligence of Dogs." I've read them and have learned that dogs can attain the intelligence of a 5 year old human child in many respects. Some dogs understand several hundred words. Dogs have lots of emotion just like people. Dogs can be taught things, just like humans and they figure things out on their own. Today, our 6 year old Weimaraner, Dolly Loretta did something that amazed me.
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We have a 14 year old foster dog named "Sprite" who is a dachshund. In the most recent 3 months of his life he was living with an elderly person who was unable to let him out, so he unlearned his bathroom habits and did his business indoors. As a result, when we took him in as a foster dog, we quickly learned that simply gating him in the kitchen didn't prevent him from peeing on the drapes hanging in front of our sliding glass doors if we were gone more than 2 1/2 hours. He has to be crated whenever we go out- He does go to the door when he has to go out- he just can't be left alone more than two plus hours.
This morning, all the dogs were still snoozing in the bedroom while I was shaving and getting ready for the day. Dolly and Franklin were on the bed and Sprite in his own little bed beside our bed. During the time I was getting ready, Dolly jumped off the bed and came into and out of the bathroom 3 times quickly signaling me.
I immediately understood she was trying to tell me that Sprite got out of his bed and was walking around. That way, I could let him and the others out before Sprite peed in the house.Dolly has watched before as we told him "no" to peeing in the house and she figured out that we need to be notified before he gets himself into trouble.
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