I wanted to show off my two dogs, and I think this is the place for it;
This is Patriot. He's about four/five, and we found him three years ago or so in the new houses they were building by ours. He had several puncture wounds in his hind leg probably caused by the coyotes we have living out here, and we took him to the vet to get him cleaned up.
We placed several ads saying we'd found him, and we only got two calls (one from a nice older lady, but he wasn't her's; her shepherd was a saddle, older, and had a leather collar, and the second from some people who couldn't tell us if their dog was fixed, or what sort of markings it had, or how old it was. =/) and neither was the owner.
I think Patriot is the smartest dog I've ever met; I taught him sit, down and come in an afternoon, and then the next day I was able to teach him the non-verbal commands for the same. And he's remembered them. Right now I'm teaching him his left from his right (with treats on his paws; "Left paw, right paw") and he's picking that up very quickly as well.
This is Sheila. She is a bathmat. A three year old baby of a bathmat. She's as dumb as a brick, and twice as hard headed. She wants very badly to be able to speak English, or, at least that's the impression she gives everyone. When we let her in the house, she yells at us for at least five minutes (and by yell I mean practically howls) letting everyone know exactly how she feels about being left outside for such an unbearable amount of time. Even if it was only a half hour.
She... doesn't learn so fast. XD
Edit; I also forgot to add that she's blind in one eye as the result of an accident three days after we got her. My dad turned his back for ten minutes, leaving her with a friend, and when he got back, her eye had come out. Our vet was closed for lunch at the time, and so he took her to an emergancy vet. They said that it would cost $500 to save the eye, and there was only a 50% chance it would still work, so they were going to just cut it out and then it would be $20. My dad spent a half hour getting them to believe that he really wanted to pay the extra money to get the globe put back in. Once they did that, he took Sheila to our normal vet who said that it didn't look like the other vets had done a very good job. She also said that if we'd been able to get the dog in a half hour earlier, Sheila would have full vision. So, basically, by arguing with my father, the emergency vet cost our dog the vision in her left eye.
We also have a third dog, Charlie, my (female) Sheltie. I don't have a good picture of her online, though. She's twelve or so, and lives behind our sofa. She comes out a couple times a day, and is half feral. She is afraid of everything but rodents. She is very smart, but has no real inclination to learn anything, although she knows the basics.
