Here she comes!

She's here!

Did my dog really just do that?

This morning Yvaine got in from Sniff Patrol before Merlin did, which is unusual. She wanted her carrot. They get a carrot when they’re both inside. I told her “just a minute” (which means “I will give you a treat, but not yet”) and I called Merlin just to be sure he wasn’t under the bed or something. No response, so I told her “just a minute” again. She wandered off.

A few minutes later, I heard two dogs coming in the door. Did… did she go GET him? Is she that clever? Did she understand that she would only get a carrot once they were both inside? And then make it happen?

Yvaine certainly knows “go get.” She learned “go get” when our first cocker went completely deaf, and one of her “jobs” was to fetch him from outside; this video is Yvaine fetching Galahad because Galahad could not hear me call him. I tell Yvaine “go get Merlin” occasionally just to keep her in practice.

But… did she really go find Merlin (somewhere on our 10 acres) and bring him inside, just because she was impatient for one post-Sniff-Patrol carrot?