How smart is your dog?

I always wanted to know!

With Willie we kind of knew the answer. He wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. My best one but not the sharpest ...
Now Ed is a whole other story. With him we are on the fence, 50/50, not so sure ...
I took a good look at my little, black dork who was just chewing up one of my wooden cooking spoons he as fished out of the dishwasher and thought: "hmmmmm ... I wonder?".

I had found this blog post about Dog IQ tets and it was ON!!!
I had to know how smart he was or if my impression was right and he had fallen out of his basket as a baby and bumped his head one too many times.

Ed's IQ test in full strides

Test 1

Place a treat under a container and record the time it takes your dog to get to the treat.

Ed's Score: 5 Points (the highest count!!!)

Test 2

Place a treat under a blanket and record the time it takes him to get to the treat.

Ed's Score: 5 points again (my little Einstein!!!)

Test 3

Place a treat under a hole stack of items (or under a table low enough to stop your dogs head getting under, but high enough off the ground to get it's paw under. You can make it out of some bricks or large books and a board). Record the time it takes your dog to get to the treat.

Ed's Score: 5 points

We decided to make it a bit more challenging and added more books and a bucket (Ls idea!!).

He got to it just as fast ... we added 5 extra credits to his score for over-achieving.

Test 4

With a quick smooth motion throw the towel or blanket over the dogs head, so it's head and shoulders are completely covered (you may want to practice this without the dog first). Start timing and watch silently.

Ed's score: 4 Points

There were a few other test which I didn't record in pics but (of course) he full-pointed all of them.
Ed's test result: Over 25 points - Your dog is a genius

Hell'ya ... I always knew it!

I am thinking "I like this dog, I really do. I always liked this dog."

He just aced the test and now it had to be true. 

He truly is smart!

...

But then he did THIS ...

This is my 1980 Doll House Doll, still in mint condition (well until yesterday it was ..). 

Original East German heritage. Well preserved by my mom to hand down to my children, her wonderful grandchildren so they could enjoy these wonderful play things just like my sister and I did (and I am pretty sure my brother too ... sorry Bruderhertz but I remember you playing with them. I am sure you pretended they were super heroes or transformers :).

 ... now it's in the garbage.

Sorry Omi!!!

Amputated body parts

I found some more later,

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on the trail,

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in Ed's big, stinky 

...

Really, I am not making this up!!!

Mutilation in progress

This may the first quadriplegic doll.

L's comment: "Mama, we need a wheelchair for this dolly." 

So his score has been removed and his status is once again "not so sure".

Besides he still hasn't figured out that the cats hate him and he still thinks they want to play with him while all they want to do is to scratch his little eyes out of their sockets. 

Poor, little, dumb dog ... he'll never learn!!!

But that's just fine. We love him just the way he is, plus he makes a wonderful Pillow Pet! 

He has become Pat's running partner and even thow he lost his off-leash privileges (he took off on me twice and on Carol as well) is a wonderful walking buddy.

He can retrieve, sit, stay, "leave it" and understands everything when I have deep conversations with him. 

We are pretty lucky that he just fell into our arms. 

Our house would be way too boring without this cute, dumb little dorky of ours.

Here is the inspiration to this post (click here) 

Pat and I rolled on the floor laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes and were falling over after reading this. Enjoy!!! This Lady deserves all the credit!!!

Here is the link to the actual Dog IQ test ... have fun testing your best buddy!