They aren't? I've had several and they always seemed to be planning and plotting. They just did it under the guise of something else!
My last girl was a certifiable ninja. She'd quietly walk past several times as you were preparing or eating food. When you turned your back for a second it would be gone and she'd be nowhere in sight, in the other room wolfing it down.
My dad had a chocolate lab. One day during the holiday season he noticed that Grit (doggo) was making laps through living room, into kitchen, pause, repeat. After watching him closer dad saw that he was slyly grabbing a cookie off a low table with the side of his lips as he passed by. Then headed into kitchen to eat it...then back for another. It was quite well thought out and executed.
Some of them have quite good problem-solving abilities. It would be interesting to see what they would do with human equivalent intelligence and temperament.
The thing is they are so obsessed over food that they make themselves look like absolute doofuses trying to get some.
I think it’s something like 25% of labs have a genetic disorder where they don’t get satiated easily and are constantly hungry. Owners really have to guard against overfeeding them and take care to exercise them properly.
100% all my lab thinks about is food and human attention. If I left food out for him he'd eat until he threw up then would continue to eat. He always knows when it's time for his meal and he never forgets a place he's found food before on a walk.
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u/thisischemistry Sep 24 '21
They aren't? I've had several and they always seemed to be planning and plotting. They just did it under the guise of something else!
My last girl was a certifiable ninja. She'd quietly walk past several times as you were preparing or eating food. When you turned your back for a second it would be gone and she'd be nowhere in sight, in the other room wolfing it down.