I like to know who is smarter me or Dutch? I'm not so sure anymore.
During the last few months in an effort to keep Dutch entertained during the winter months, I taught her how to go find her treats. Basically I tell her to sit while I go hide her treat. Once I hide it, I tell her "Go find your treat". It's so cute because she will search the house until she finds her treat.....which she always does.
So you are thinking what's the big deal......she knows how to find her treats. Well just when I was proud of myself for teaching her yet another trick. It slowly started to darn on me that she was teaching me how to find her treats too.
Okay....so this is what she started doing. She will go and find her treat and she re hides it. After she re hides it, she does everything in her power to get my attention at which point I have to go find her treat. When I get close to her treat, she gets really excited. When I am not anywhere near it, she just stares at me. Once I find it, I will re hide it or I just give her back her treat and she will eat it instead of re hiding it. Trust she has some really weird hiding places
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It took me awhile to catch on to what she was doing. The first time she did it I just thought she drop her treat where she couldn't get to it. After her doing this several times, it darned on me what she was trying to do. When I figured it out.....I was so proud of her
I am ashamed to say I only just figure this out a few days ago after playing this game for the last few months. It took only a few days for her to learn how to play. It took me a few months....lol