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Originally Posted by 2BNTV

At the end of the day, dogs may rely on humans, but they also use their skills to manipulate their owners and the world they live in. And even though dog owners like to think they're in command, the professor says it may actually be Fido who is really in charge.

2BNTV - What do you think?

Wow...great reading! Thank you so much for posting this!

I had a lab-border collie mix (Oreo-God rest her soul) who knew how to manipulate me to no end...she was definitely the boss in my house.

When the phone rang, she would run into the kitchen waiting for me to answer it...she had this look of joy and anticipation, the tail was wagging like crazy and she could barely sit still. The minute I said "hello", she would start barking like crazy. She KNEW I would give her a "chewy thing" just to shut her up. The same thing would happen when the door bell rang!

At the end of the day, once I announced "sleepy time", she would gather up every single one of her toys that she played with that day. Sometimes she would pick up 6-8 things at once (she looked sooooo cute). She would walk around the house, making sure she didn't forget anything and then proceed upstairs where she would arrange them on her bed in a circle and sleep inside that circle.

Readers Digest had a "vocabulary" test for dogs years ago. Oreo scored as a "genius". No one believed it, but it was true. Her brothers (my sons) thought that I was out of my mind. I was...truly out of my mind with love for that dog! I miss her terribly and she will never be replaced

Thank you for letting me share my Oreo story.