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...Just how smart Saleen really is. Being a poodle and all I would have expected her to be brilliant, and sometimes she is. She isn't however scary smart like the two tibbies, (guess which is more challenging to train LoL).
Sometimes her intelligence amazes me. She picks up new tasks in training quickly and with little stress. Occasionaly her willingness to please stresses her out when she hasn't figured out what you want, but those times are rare and she recovers quickly. Jazz too, does this though she doesn't enjoy thinking nearly as much as Saleen does.
Sometimes the complete absense of any brain at all amazes me, these times are more frequent that our star of the class training amazements I'm sad to admit. :doh:
An example;
Thanks to our approching tropical friend Ida it rained today and the poodles got soaked when I had a bad mommy moment and forgot to keep and eye out for the new wave of rainshowers. Jazz happily played in the flower bed, (umm wonderful - she's dark brown from the belly down), while Saleen sat forlornly out in the middle of the yard getting rained on. Come on Super poodle, at least get under the covered part of the porch goober!! So I put them both out in the newly finished groom room, aka my garage to play and dry. Aside from getting into a couple of minor things, nothing of which could have hurt them and poking around and exploring all the new shelves and baskets and kennels they didn't cause much trouble. I checked on them every so often since I couldn't see them from my office. In between the last time I checked and the time John got home and checked on them (about 15 minutes) Saleen decided she was hungry I guess. Ummm yeah, guess what else resides in the groom room.... yup the dog food bins. They have snap down lids and are airtight. Saleen figured that was only a minor detail and managed to flip the latch unsnapping the lid, then flipped the hindged lid open and helped herself. I call that smart. The tibbies would have figured it out long ago if they were tall enough, thankgod that they AREN'T! (They figured out how to get up on the window seal in front of the dinning room table and from there get either onto the table or onto our counter via one of the table chairs)
30 minutes later all four dogs were in the office with hubby and I and Saleen wanted to peep through the blinds on the window. I guess Jazz passed on her peeping poodle habit afterall lol. The window was cracked open which I guess is what got her attention, the blinds however were closed. They are those heavy wood-like blinds that the cats can't tear up and fit our beach themed decor in that room. Saleen repeatedly banged her head and face into the blinds, about 12 times, until John pulled them up for her. I call that less than smart.
Almost every day I shake my head watching her do this or that. From wacking her head on the coffee table, (she does that at least twice a day!!), to tripping over the little dogs, to running into the wall in front of our bedroom when she's excited. She turns round and round and hopes and gets all dopey when it's dinner time and has smacked into the corner there a number of times. She also manages to tangle herself in the power cord to my laptop when I have it plugged in. None of the other dogs do this, only Saleen.
I'm thinking she is a bit like my mother, very bright but no common sense LoL! She is the gifted blonde you sat next to in highschool would couldnt walk in a straight line but could rattle off the periotic table without a second thought. Poor Saleen LoL. Just a big 'ol goofy puppy :
Sometimes her intelligence amazes me. She picks up new tasks in training quickly and with little stress. Occasionaly her willingness to please stresses her out when she hasn't figured out what you want, but those times are rare and she recovers quickly. Jazz too, does this though she doesn't enjoy thinking nearly as much as Saleen does.
Sometimes the complete absense of any brain at all amazes me, these times are more frequent that our star of the class training amazements I'm sad to admit. :doh:
An example;
Thanks to our approching tropical friend Ida it rained today and the poodles got soaked when I had a bad mommy moment and forgot to keep and eye out for the new wave of rainshowers. Jazz happily played in the flower bed, (umm wonderful - she's dark brown from the belly down), while Saleen sat forlornly out in the middle of the yard getting rained on. Come on Super poodle, at least get under the covered part of the porch goober!! So I put them both out in the newly finished groom room, aka my garage to play and dry. Aside from getting into a couple of minor things, nothing of which could have hurt them and poking around and exploring all the new shelves and baskets and kennels they didn't cause much trouble. I checked on them every so often since I couldn't see them from my office. In between the last time I checked and the time John got home and checked on them (about 15 minutes) Saleen decided she was hungry I guess. Ummm yeah, guess what else resides in the groom room.... yup the dog food bins. They have snap down lids and are airtight. Saleen figured that was only a minor detail and managed to flip the latch unsnapping the lid, then flipped the hindged lid open and helped herself. I call that smart. The tibbies would have figured it out long ago if they were tall enough, thankgod that they AREN'T! (They figured out how to get up on the window seal in front of the dinning room table and from there get either onto the table or onto our counter via one of the table chairs)
30 minutes later all four dogs were in the office with hubby and I and Saleen wanted to peep through the blinds on the window. I guess Jazz passed on her peeping poodle habit afterall lol. The window was cracked open which I guess is what got her attention, the blinds however were closed. They are those heavy wood-like blinds that the cats can't tear up and fit our beach themed decor in that room. Saleen repeatedly banged her head and face into the blinds, about 12 times, until John pulled them up for her. I call that less than smart.
Almost every day I shake my head watching her do this or that. From wacking her head on the coffee table, (she does that at least twice a day!!), to tripping over the little dogs, to running into the wall in front of our bedroom when she's excited. She turns round and round and hopes and gets all dopey when it's dinner time and has smacked into the corner there a number of times. She also manages to tangle herself in the power cord to my laptop when I have it plugged in. None of the other dogs do this, only Saleen.
I'm thinking she is a bit like my mother, very bright but no common sense LoL! She is the gifted blonde you sat next to in highschool would couldnt walk in a straight line but could rattle off the periotic table without a second thought. Poor Saleen LoL. Just a big 'ol goofy puppy :
