Dumb dog owners…

Do all these people  posting pix  of their puzzled pooches think it’s great their dogs aren’t very bright?  Big Girl had not the slightest difficulty figuring out I was still around,  because she could smell me.   She long ago figured out that my voice could come through funny little rectangular things even when I was physically absent.   It neither upsets nor alarms nor stresses her.  She just smiles and wags her tail,  I am told by reliable witnesses.

I grant you that BG is an intelligent canine,  but I doubt any of the many dogs I’ve owned over the years would have been puzzled by the game for long.   Most of them were rescues,  so perhaps they tried harder,  but I  do not think a dog of average intelligence would be overtaxed in figuring it out.  I think the owners so enjoy their dogs’ amusing reactions they are training them to respond that way.  If their dog finds it stressful, they should stop.  If they can’t tell if the game is stressful, they should not own a dog.,   A dog’s purpose is not to entertain its human,  though it frequently does.  Find a game the dog actually njoys!