A Blue Genius!

Rarely, if ever, have I written two posts in one night, but tonight, Kypros and I were flabbergasted at how intelligent our Blue is.  Through the posts, you might have guessed that Zoë could be easily labelled as sweet, lovable and goofy.  We always thought that being a purebred hunting dog, she's no IQ slouch, but honestly, while writing the post about Dax, she did something, that to us, was nothing short of genius.

The Love Affair with Rawhide

Zoë loves rawhide chews.

She can sit down and have a chew for an hour or so at a time.  There are a bunch of butt-ends hiding all around the house - inside and out.  She has her favourites and will hide them safely out of our reach.  Before she decides to chill out for a while, she'll go and find her favourite 'hide, bringing it to wherever we are and lay down for a little chew.

The problem?  She knows where the new bag of rawhides is kept and prefers to have a fresh, new rawhide at her disposal at all times.  We are most definitely curbing this habit. 

Her genius moment

Crying for a new rawhide, Kypros decided to use reasoning and logic tonight to explain to Zoë why a new rawhide wasn't necessary.  There was my husband, seeking out all rawhides in our family room. While arranging them on the floor (in order of size folks!), he carefully explained to our very observant Blue that because of the vast number of 'hides, a new one was not necessary.  He patted her head and sat down. 

Here it comes everyone....what did Zoë do? 

She looked at Kypros, looked at all her rawhides side-by-side on the floor, went over to her toy basket, rifled around and TA-DA!!  grabbed another chewy bone and carried it over to the pile of bones, dropping it to the pile!!  Incredible - seriously folks - she made the association almost immediately.  There are many toddlers that wouldn't make that association as quickly.  Proud with herself, she grabbed the chewy bone and sat down for a well-earned chew.

All of us BSP lovin' folk are holding our heads up a little higher tonight. Not only are they beautiful, silly and goofy, they are without a doubt, incredibly intelligent!!  Cheers to our Blues everyone!



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