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It's great having a smart dog because he can learn novel tricks such as opening the refrigerator door or even closing the bedroom door upon request. He makes us laugh often. The flip side of this is that he is clever enough to know creative ways to capture our attention. For example, when we're both sitting on our computers being boring, Koda only needs to grab the dish towel hanging from the oven door and do a lap or two around the living room and I'm instantly paying attention to the wild ball of fur doing his crazy towel dance. He's also been known to slam our bathroom door shut not upon request. I think it's to make sure we see him, and perhaps it's his non-verbal way of requesting a treat.

He also does this thing when he gets a new toy, such as a plastic ball or stuffed animal toy. He briefly does the crazy stuffed animal dance with the toy in mouth as to say, "Thank you- I love it!", then just when we've grown weary, he quietly sneaks away behind the chair and within seconds, the toy has morphed into a pile of plastic. Tonight, he hid in the bedroom with his new generic toy football and kept peeking around the corner at me. I kept using my best serious voice to let him know that even though I couldn't see him, I knew what he was doing.

The little yellow football survived only around 30 minutes. Apparently I need to work on my serious voice.