Are usually met with disappointment.
Sal and I were watching a lame dog hiding and some cat jump in a box, or some monkeys water skiing or a cat sneaking up on another cat…when an ad came on. Usually, I watch ads and Catherine ignores them, but I guess that’s on TV. On the internet, our roles are reversed and I had no idea what the ad was for and Catherine wanted more details.
Cute video and it helped show me how dumb some dogs can be. But everyone’s still happy. I like their scoring system, where if you’re at about a C or D range for the test, they call it “Your dog must be real cute.” Applies to more than dogs I hear.
Anyway, post education of the test, I was pretty confident that Chapo would ace it. Though he took a while on the first one, surprisingly, and I started to get worried. Nailed the rest of them though. Well, I rationalized the “name” calling one. You’re supposed to check to see that the dog recognizes his name and not just your excited, eager tone of voice (which they key on more than one thinks). And seeing one dog lumber over after “refrigerator” was called out all excited and with enthusiasm was kind of funny.
Still, I didn’t think Chapo would have any problems with it, cause it was something we had learned/worked on a while back. So I put him across the room, told him to stay, moved away, and then excitedly called out “refrigerator!” Chapo didn’t flinch. Called out “movies”. Nothing. Then called out his name. He tilted his head at me. I repeated it, knowing that we were going to get docked a point on the IQ test because of that. Still nothing.
I was a bit disappointed, then rationalized that there was still one way to gracefully recover from this, since I did tell him to stay. “Come!”
He gets full credit.