smart dog, clever dog

My daughter and son-in-law have three dogs, a boxer, a boxer size mystery mix, and a recently acquired 13 pound pug.  I have realized that pug must be short for pugnatious. She certainly holds her own with the big dogs. These are good dogs but not particularly bright.  I heard a wonderful line in a play recently. A woman was berating a group of rowdy men and said "If we put all of your brains in the head of a butterfly, they would still rattle." Ouch! The puppies are not quite that bad. In fact today I saw a flash of brilliance.  Two of the dogs, the pug and the mix, were fighting over their favorite chewy bone.  Mind you there was another bone less than two feet away, but like some kids I've know, they both wanted the same one. The pug had the bone and was chewing away when the mix made his move - he stood up, looked out the window and barked once, as if he saw something. The pug looked up to see what he was barking at and the mix snatched that bone and ran away with it. Score one for the big dog.