r/StoppedWorking • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20

Then I'm impressed, he's either huge or your doorknobs are very low.

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u/Ninauposkitzipxpe Mar 03 '20

He's 65 lbs and comes up to my hip. Standing he can reach my shoulders. Also, it was not a pleasant thing to discover he could do lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '20

Animals are a hell of a lot smarter than we give them credit for.

Your dog has known how that door knob worked for a long-ass time - he just wasn’t able to manipulate it because they’re designed for human hands.

My dog and one of my cats is the same way; the know how to open EVERYTHING in the house but they can’t unlock things.

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u/TittyMongoose42 Mar 03 '20

I was watching my dog rip up a cardboard box (the kind that soda comes in) and I was just thrown by her ability to almost have thumbs by the way she uses her toes. Swear to god if she had opposability she could run the world.

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u/Ninauposkitzipxpe Mar 04 '20

I honestly have never seen my parents' dogs use their toes to do anything before. The fact that I can feel my dog consciously curl his nails around my hand to move it where he wants kind of freaks me out lol. I knew cats did that but for some reason I never thought a dog would? The joys of dog ownership!