Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Originally Posted By: spasm3
Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
I have an Australian Cattle Dog that loves birds. She works cheap and is very dedicated to her jobs. She needs something to do because left to her own devices gets her into trouble.
My shepard is a mix with blue heeler. Cattle dogs are so so smart. So smart its scary. My dog could open the front door and the back if it was not locked.( from the outside)
To catch gophers Toby, our ACD, gets down on her belly near a gopher hole and makes a squeaking noise. When the gopher comes up to see what the noise is all about, it's dinner served.
The garage door was a problem in my home. I had to move the button on the wall because Toby would drag a foot stool over to the wall, stand up on it and press the button to open the garage door. She's always watching what I do and has learned several other bad habits, as well. Some times she used her brains to solve a problem and other times she uses brute force. She never comes to me to ask for help like our black lab does when his tennis ball gets stuck somewhere. She undid the latch on the neighbors chicken coop. She did not bother the chickens but went after mice. The problem with her mice hunt was that the neighbor and I spent a half hour catching the chickens and putting them back. Once Toby saw what we were doing she chased back more chickens than we did. She is one very smart dog. And because she catches so many gophers I have very understanding neighbors. She visits them and it appears that everyone in the area knows Toby.
I believe this, they are amazing dogs, and yes they can problem solve!!