That's some dog, that Wonder Dog

[cosmolinguist]

I stood up from the table with my empty bowl*, and before I'd even reached the kitchen, before I had made any discernable noise, I heard the soft thundering that indicated the dog was running down the stairs.

He scampers over if he's in the room and sees me standing up after a meal, having been taught to expect scraps then (though these are more common from Andrew than me, since he eats meat and somehow more things that can be scraped off the plate onto a little dog's food), but I'd never known him to run downstairs for them. This might partly be explained by the fact that he's not usually upstairs when we're both home, to be fair, though it was about the time he's been heading for bed lately.

But even so, how could he possibly know I was heading for the kitchen with an empty bowl?! I'd only taken a couple of quiet steps.

Then we're also talking, here, about a dog who has been known to hear the noise of me setting a block of cheese on the kitchen counter and come running down the stairs from where he'd been asleep. Cheese is his favorite, and somehow he can tell from another floor of the house, while asleep, that it's that thing and no other I've just gotten out of the fridge.

* Previously full of noodles and carrots and "chicken" and a miso ginger sauce I made from a recipe and found rather disappointing: even with lots more ginger than it called for it wasn't enough ginger, and too much miso for my tastes, but it was edible and I'll try it again with some tweaks.

Comments

[conuly]

Dogs are clever!

[cosmolinguist]

When sufficiently motivated. :)

[jesse_the_k]

It's the nose. 50 million times more sensitive than ours IIRC.

But that doesn't explain how they recognize the sound of our car when it's more than two blocks away.

[cosmolinguist]

And it doesn't explain how he know when I stood up with an empty bowl. :)

[alatefeline]

He's a wonder dog, all right!

[chanter1944]

*giggles* Oh, this is familiar. Puppy dogs really do have bionic ears and phenomenal noses. XD The fuzz in the icon could hear the pantry or a cupboard door open from across the house, and just like that - trot trot trot zoooom - hi labby!