Yesterday after a hard day of tracking in mid-day heat, only to find I'd
left Tuck's end-of-track rewards at home, I took both Tuck and Reka to the
ice cream stand for ice cream cones as a reward for work well done.
Reka ate hers, and kept running to the ice cream window, standing up on
the bricks, trying to get more ice cream to come out the window.
So I handed Tuck $5 and told him to take it to the window and pay. He was
on his way to the window, when Reka stole the $5 (isn't that just like a
woman?) from Tuck, and ran to the window and whined until the girl opened
the window and took her money. She stood looking in the window until the
Ice Cream Cones came out.
So dogs (Both of mine) understand the concept of shopping just as Danny
had
before.
None of us would have been the least surprised if that had been Tuck
paying
for the ice cream. It wouldn't have even been mentionable. The surprise
was that it was REKA! But even though it was a surprise, she has all the
elements of that capability, I just never knew she had that kind of
chutzpa! And she did it herself and knew exactly what to do, and what she
expected from the results.
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