Thursday, August 14, 2008

Really Not Sure How She'd Do on an IQ Test

My dog is smart:

Today I took Lola to the vet to see about the chronic diarrhea issue.  I had brought along some poo in a bag (ick), so they didn't have to take a fecal sample, but they did have to take her temperature.  By sticking a thermometer up her butt.  And keeping it there for sixty seconds.  Lola did not enjoy this.  When the vet left to do the analysis, I sat down, and she huddled up against the wall, under my chair.  The vet returned and prescribed some antibiotics, and then it was time to leave.  I crouched down in front of the chair, held my hands palms up, and said, "Lola come," a command which she almost always obeys.  Lola pricked up her ears and looked at me, then immediately swiveled to look at the vet, who was holding the door open.  As if to say, "right, lady, you want me to come out with that bitch still around?"  Clever girl.

My dog is stupid:

I have two little containers attached to the end of Lola's leash, as you can see.


One is a poo-bag dispenser by Bags On Board, so that I can be a responsible pet owner who cleans up after her dog.  The second is a different kind of poo-bag dispenser, where the bottom cap pops off.  Yesterday I had the bright idea to buy this dispenser and store training treats in it.  It's hard to grab treats before we go out, because then Lola sees me get them from the cupboard and is obsessed with having one.  If they were already on the leash, they'd be available, and they'd be up near my hand where she couldn't get at them.  It worked really well at Barton Springs, but then we went to lunch and I tied her leash around the table-leg, and suddenly she realized that this pink thing was the source of the treats, and it was on the ground and accessible to her!  She started chewing at it, so I sighed and took it off the leash and put it in my purse.  Undeterred, she spent the next ten minutes chewing at the Bags On Board container.  It is a different shape, a different color, and a different texture, and also it does not smell like treats because it does not have treats in it.  Nevertheless, she persevered.  Dumbass. 

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