was paying attention recently to a documentary about those toy sized dogs, its interesting, because they seem to be just as capable of being trained really neet tricks as some of the larger breeds that are more renowned for being intelligent, for example training a chiwawa to use the litter box properly, like a cat would do

if memory serves, they even cited someone with a dustmop that was trained to stick out its tongue or sort shapes with a baby toy

Terriers are good working breeds

round peg and square hole, then he scoots it over by one and its falls into place

i laughed so hard

was just adorable

here i had trouble just asking a golden lab to sleep indoors like a normal pet instead of wanting to be all over the yard all nice long

would even go and ask at 3am, you wanna come in yet?

nope...

my brother is much better at training animals, for his sheep dog thing, i have to say little more than, come on, and she goes where ever im wanting

No one in my family ever trained their dogs I was actually amazed to see a trained dog for the first time when I was like 14

when i was very young, my parents had a black with white patches border collie, it was rather old when my dad adopted it and was already rather well trained in general, he also had a lot of spare time to finish training it to the point that toddlers were able to take him for a walk on a leash without a single worry at all about him straying from their side, i still kinda remember when i was young and the dog was almost completely blind and deaf, there was a thunder storm, which he was afraid of because of the booming noise, but he went outside anyways and found this one stray cat that had been nearby in the neighborhood and herded her inside, since it was his instinct. when we came out in the morning, we saw the two of them cuddled up together, him in his bed and her on top of him, we decided then to adopt her and bring her in

he was a really cool dog

That's like something from a kids book.

but for the cat, i assume he found her by smell

its really like its from a kids book

and i should write some day

but its the honest truth of my kitty stipe

she was also a really cool pet

she also gave me some awesome scars on the right half of my face

it was a valuable lesson about not holding the kitty longer than she wants attention

I have only ever been nipped by my dog as a kid and bitten by a dwarf hamster. One of my snakes hisses at me when ever I walk pass but has never bitten.

in my current days, ive got a few cats and my brother has a dog and a couple cats, his dog is marvelously trained, but his cats arent in the slightest, but ive actually trained one of my cats to fetch and bring stuff back to me

Cats have always just ran away from me. I have to go now. Have a nice day.

started with him wanting attention and being a bit on the annoying side, so i would gather up a handful of catnip mice and then every so often just toss one if i wanted a minute to breath while he chased it down and batted it around, then he surprised me one day by running back after playing with it, but he carried it back to me, wanting me to toss it again, and then we had a game where i would toss it farther and farther and he would hunt it down and bring it back, sometimes i would intentionally try to make it more difficult, by aiming to have it land inside a boot after boucning off the wall or landing in the laundry hamper

still find tricks to make things interesting, for example lifting up an edge of the bedding for him to explore under

then later find him digging his way under the bedding and tunneling his way to the rough middle of the bed but under the sheets

naturally though, that little cat has clawed and bitten the heck out of me from time to time just cause he was excited and wanted to play

one of the strangest memories with him, which i hope doesnt repeat too soon, is a time where he took a mouse that his sister had found and decided to eat it, i tried for a moment to take it away and just throw it out like other times that this has happened, but instead he put the full force of his body into his claws and paws and pushed me away from it, we had a game of tug of war as i very intently tried to take the mouse from him, while i knew it was dead at the start of our fight for the mouse, it started to tear at the very end of the battle and i just let go... i was kinda icked out and didnt wanna just take half a mouse from him and he ate it... :queezy face:

ive actually managed to react in time to just take the mouse from his sister

she just carries it around, rather proud

probably slowly suffocating it

cause shes slightly evil

impossible to train her to do any trick other than, come here, and stay, but never lasts for more than about 15 seconds

and come here doesnt always work

for example with a mouse, then stay might work, but only for about 2 seconds

Epic

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hi

(OT: just arrived -- I never knew discord had this many security features. I appreciate this.)

^ what she said