Sometimes Cassie leaves me flabbergasted! This evening I was just watching a bit of TV before cooking supper, when Cass came and plonked her head on my lap, tail wagging, eyes insistent but very polite, making her funny throaty noise that means she's trying to communicate with me. So I dutifully get up and she leads me out to the other room to a set of shelves that have various things on -- books, baskets containing winter gloves and stuff that just needs putting out of the way. She sits down in front of it and grunts, looks at me. Thinking she's lost something underneath it I moved it out, but no, not that. She just kept looking at the baskets, so I put them on the floor, she sat by one, looked at me. So I said where is it? And she rummaged in one and poked a tennis ball, wagging her tail and grinned at me. so I gave it to her to her delight. Now Cassie doesn't bother with balls, unless she is with Harley @Naya or Rourke @Stacia . We had a short game, but really she wanted to just carry it. She could easily have just got it out herself. And I can't remember how long ago that ball got put in there -- it's months, if not a year or more. What was that all about?
She remembered jumping into the river with Rourke and after his ball Dogs have amazing memories of things that are of interest to them, but cannot remember their lessons
Do you think? There are a couple of other balls kicking around all the time which she sometimes picks up and wanders round with, but this one has been out of sight for ages! Guess I'll never know, but isn't that the magic of having them? Not knowing everything about them and their extraordinary senses!
Hah! Little Joy does exactly that quite insistent but very polite thing! Sometimes she's kind of almost apologetic. She then leads me to whatever it is she wants. Our previous sweet girl, Solstice, used to paw at us, fix us with a hard stare and then walk backwards to what she wanted, all the while maintaining the hard stare. She got what she wanted every time! They are so, so clever, aren't they?
