Most of you have pets. I have seen some of you post pictures of your beloved puppies and dogs. And you know, if you read about QT, I have Floyd the cat. Most all of us are crazy about our pets, and we usually think that they have more than above average intelligence. In fact, some of them are downright smart.
Dogs that fetch newspapers and slippers, roll over and play dead, ring the doorbell to get in the house, watch and protect the babies and toddlers, TV fans who watch the boob tube all day long (I have a friend who has one of these dogs) are fairly common.
But probably the smartest dogs of all are those who read the signs on the post office and other government buildings that say "only seeing eye dogs allowed."
David Letterman features that segment of his show on stupid pet tricks. So there are a lot of smart pets out there -- we can agree on that.
How many of them drive cars? That's without a license, of course.
Charlie, a black lab, is in a whole heap of trouble for driving his master's Chevy Impala in the the Pend Oreille River in Idaho. Mark Ewing, the owner of Charlie and the ugly car, just returned home from picking up a pizza, and as he walked to the house Charlie jumped though the open window of the auto and apparently knocked the gearshift into neutral whereupon the car rolled down an incline and splash into the river and sank.
Charlie, being the smart dog he is, jumped out of the window before inpact with the water. Do you suppose Charlie was a little pissed at not getting some sort of dog chow pizza and this was his way of getting back at Mark?
"There's nothing weirder that looking at your car cruising down your driveway when you are not in it and seeing your dog jump out and then watching your car go splash," Ewing said.
It gets a little funnier when the wrecker redneck shows up to retrieve the waterlogged Impala.
I can just picture him as somebody like Goober or Gomer. He asks Mark to hold his false teeth, and he dives into the river to hook up the cable. What else would you expect from somebody working for "Clyde's Tow Service?"
"My car's in the drink, I got dentures in my hand, and this guy Keith goes swimming," Ewing noted.
There is a lesson here -- that little-used emergency break in your automobile has a purpose.
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My precious Bandit is famous in our neck of the woods for his trick. When you ask him if he would rather be dead or go to Ole Miss, he promptly rolls over and plays dead. Probably the smartest dog I've ever met!
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