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03-08-2015, 02:50 PM | #1 |
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| Dutch taught me a new game 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. 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 Last edited by yavenay; 03-08-2015 at 02:53 PM. |
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03-08-2015, 03:16 PM | #2 |
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| Isn't that cute? It's amazing the little games they think up on their own and teach us how to play with them! Dutch sounds like a smart boy! The game you two play sounds like the one my Tibbe taught me to play all on his own. It took me a while to realize we had been playing the game of hide and seek, with my dog baiting me to search for the chewie he'd hidden in the living room, then later on, anywhere in the house! I'd never had a dog in this house do that - they just didn't have the patience or selflessness or foresight or whatever to allow another to seek and then get their treasure. They always rushed in to get it for themselves. Just like you, I was blown away when I realized what he'd been doing. Tibbe taught me how to play hide and seek with his chewies not too long after I got him and will play this game as long as I last at it. He loves it and will just patiently stand by as I search around and won't even really clue me in when I'm getting warm, though. Once or twice he's rushed in to grab the chewie ahead of me but the other 1001 times we've played, he just stands excitedly by and lets me search all over the house and finally find and retrieve the chewie and dance around waving it, yelling "I found the chewie!!! Mommy found the chewie!!!" Once I find it, he knows I will take it into the den waving it above my head and then throw it as far as I can, he runs to get it and hides it all over again, and then rushes into the den and baits me to seek it all over again.
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03-08-2015, 05:20 PM | #3 |
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| If Duchess didn't love her treats so much I have no doubt she would have me playing hide and seek all day too. I'm surprise she re-hides it at all. Don't you just love them so much? |
03-08-2015, 06:02 PM | #4 | |
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03-08-2015, 06:47 PM | #5 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Teek plays a game of his own making. He will lure me into the kitchen and then when I get there he will act like he wants to play. His game of playing is for me to grab at him and then he runs away. I will get on my hands and knees and he will stand up and attack me like he is a bear. Then he runs away and I hide in the kitchen and he comes back in and I jump at him and say BOO and he runs away again and then comes back and attacks me again and then runs out and I hide again. It is the funniest thing and this is all his doing. It is his game that he either came to me knowing how to play or he made it up with me, I don't know which, but he sure does love to play it. He will pretend he is going to bite me, but aside from his tooth hitting my arm one time (sideways and didn't hurt me) he has not made any contact with me. He obviously knows how to be very gentle. I love it and I love to play it with him. I seriously have to try the hide the treat game though and see if he will play it!
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03-08-2015, 07:13 PM | #6 |
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| lol, I just played this with Cody last night, he was in my face growling at me for attention, so I growled back lol, he jumped backwards looking at me in a weird way, so I growled again, he got scared and jumped off the soda, so I growled again, he ran off ' I hid behind the sofa on my hands and knees, when he sneaked out looking for the growling momma, I pounced out at him lol, he ran off again and I hid in the kitchen, again he sneaked out looking for me, I sprang out at him, then the attack began lol, both of us growling, him running off, me re-hiding and springing out at him when he came looking for me, then he'd attack me, we exchanged growls lol, I waved the white flag,ain't as young as I use to be to be on hands and knees crawling around on the floor growling lol. He loved it so it will be a every other day / night play date lol.
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03-08-2015, 08:56 PM | #7 |
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| I have never had a pet as smart and as sweet as my Spicey! Love these stories. |
03-11-2015, 12:01 PM | #8 |
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| Your little Dutch is one intelligent, clever little girl! I'm sure it's challenging keeping up with her! I know my Piper is usually one step ahead of me in getting what she wants...! But Dutch's little revised hide-the-treat/find-the-treat is just beyond smart and adorable! What fun you two must have! |
03-11-2015, 05:58 PM | #9 |
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| great stories!
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