How Stupid (Funny) is Your Dog (Pet)?

[CombNWattles]

Timber runs in great circles, scooping snow as he goes.
Also he does this:

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Ugh my dog is very stupid. I don’t have photographic evidence only anecdotal. For example, she likes to sniff skunks. I’ve seen her nose-to-nose with a baby skunk. Stooooopid. But it’s not her fault she was raised in the city so I cut her some slack. Not much. Just a little.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ugh my dog is very stupid. I don’t have photographic evidence only anecdotal. For example, she likes to sniff skunks. I’ve seen her nose-to-nose with a baby skunk. Stooooopid. But it’s not her fault she was raised in the city so I cut her some slack. Not much. Just a little.

Oh goodness. My previous Sheltie, the late great Gracie, completely skunk-proofed herself. She was barking at something under a drawer that was sitting on the floor of the well house. I could see that something had dug itself a little cave underneath in the soft, damp dirt floor of the well house, and I figured it was a mouse or a rat. At that time of year we typically left it open to reduce condensation. Anyway, Gracie was barking fiercely at some intruder under this drawer, so for fun I egged her on, never thinking she would catch anything. Get ''em, Girl!" And she lunged into the hole face first, then backed out with a baby skunk in her mouth, by the tail. She threw it away as fast as she could, let out a scream and ran off snorting, sneezing, shaking her head and rubbing her face on the ground as the skunk shook itself and waddled off at speed. As you can imagine my first reaction was to back up at speed myself, but then I had to rescue poor Gracie. I grabbed her in one hand and the hose in another and washed her off the best I could for several minutes, especially flushing her mouth. I have a de-skunking formula, so once I knew she was okay I mixed that up and bathed her with it. She never looked twice at a skunk after that, as long as she lived.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Funny skunk story, when I was a kid, we had a Jack Russel , visited friends in PEi, on our last day, my mother let the dog out, even though our friends warned her, there were many skunks around, 10 minutes later, the smell arrived first, then our dog problem was, we had to drive home ( a few hrs away) and it was COLD! After unsuccessfully dousing the dog in canned tomatoes, we all got into the car, it was reeking of skunk… so, either, we could have suffocated, or we chose option 2 , open the car windows let’s just say, I still remember the tour ( even though it was over 45 years ago )

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Our dog back then was the scourge of mice/rats an occasional rabbit or squirrel, thank God she never met a porcupine our neighbors dogs met them, more than once, which always resulted in vet visits, cos they pawed at the spines and rubbed their faces , which made matters even worse