These pets are doing the unthinkable, making you wonder how in the world they're smart enough to do these things. Put these pets through an IQ test!
The Dog Whisperer
“We used to have a cockatoo, as well as some cats and dogs. We were teaching the dogs some tricks, and the cockatoo was just doing his bird thing. Every day, the same routine: get some treats, call the dogs, sit, stay, lay down, roll over, get a treat, etc. One night we were watching TV and hear the cockatoo call the dog by name. ‘Sit. Stay. Lay down. Roll over. Good Boy’. We heard something hit the floor, and then he called out the next dog’s name. Walked into the kitchen to find the cockatoo in the spot we always stand, giving orders to the dogs (who were obeying!), and then pulling treats out of the cup and dropping them on the floor. This went on for some time. Dogs now liked the cockatoo, and would let him ride on their backs. Cockatoo would call them, tell them to lay down, would climb on, and ride around like a king. The dogs knew what’s up, would walk to the kitchen, and stand by the counter. Cockatoo would hop up and drop them a treat, say ‘good boy’, and hop back on. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”Source
Dog’s Best Friend
“My dogs, Arrow and Beau ran off into the woods one day when I wasn’t paying attention. Arrow had a leash on. Beau came back alone hours later. I asked ‘Beau, where is Arrow? where is he?’ He led me through the woods to the edge of someone else’s property and started screwing around, so I figured, ‘ah, too much to expect from him’ I went back home. Another hour or so passed, I was getting pretty worried, I tried asking Beau again. Again, he led me through the woods, same path he took before, this time I followed him onto the stranger’s land, went over a hill top and there was Arrow, his leash wrapped around a young pine tree and he was sitting in the sun, panting. Arrow could have literally died from heat stroke stuck out in the sun. Beau understood what I asked, I didn’t believe him the first time. He led me back a second time. and helped me find Arrow.” Source
The Chicken Funeral
“My chickens held a funeral. In our flock of maybe ten bantams, there was one elderly, respected hen. Even the brash rooster, who would spend most of his time chasing other chickens away from ‘his’ feed, meekly made space for Grey Girl when she slowly made her way over to the chicken feed. She was mother and grandmother to many of them, and you could tell how much they esteemed her. One morning, I open the chicken coop as usual, but not a chook was to be seen. Normally they’d be all running out to find the night’s bounty of bugs, but not this morning. I walk inside the pen to see what’s up. There is a circle of chickens. An actual circle, with Grey Girl’s body right in the middle. All the chooks are making this weird wailing sound, which I had never heard before. I am in no doubt they were mourning the passing of their elder mother. What’s more, the body was lying outside the shed where she would have been roosting. There is a good chance that she was actually pulled out of the claustrophobic, poo-filled shed and placed in the open space by the chickens, so they could pay their respects. After about half an hour the chooks all wandered off and I buried the body. And I never saw that behavior again. I still eat chicken.” Source
I Need Some Sun
“I used to have this 5-6 foot iguana and let it roam the house because it was bada–. It would chill in the bay window and catch sunlight all day. One day he climbed the back door and clawed his way out of the screen. I found him perched on top of our garage, he changed his skin to almost pure black and was flared up as big as he could get trying to gather all the sun he could. I guess he saw that garage every time he was basking in the sun and decided one day he wanted to be on top of it.” Source
The Smartest in the Room
“Early in the morning, I open our sliding glass door to let my dog out. She stands there staring at me as I tell her to go to the bathroom and motion outside. After a 10 second staring contest I attempt to lead her outside by first going out myself. I then proceed to walk into the sliding screen door I failed to open and knock it off the rails. That was when I knew my dog was smarter than me.” Source
When You Need a Friend
“When was I was young my family moved a long distance with two pets, a cat and a dog. My mom said that cats can try to run off to find the old home after a move so we had a cat collar with a long leash to hold her while we were unloading the trailers. I heard my Australian Shepherd bark twice on the back porch. Abby NEVER barked unless something was serious. I ran back there and my cat had run around a chair many times and then jumped off the chair with not enough room on leash to be on ground and was hanging there choking. When I rounded the corner Abby was trying to chew through the leash. Best dog ever. Both cat and dog lived long happy lives. RIP Abby and Reinette.” Source
There’s Some Trickery Afoot
“My dog Roger will start barking at the front door as if someone is there. My other dog Flash will immediately join him. There is no one at the front door, Roger just wanted to take Flash’s spot on the bed and all the pets.” Source
The Doggy Stowaway
“I live in the country. Someone dumped a dog on me. She is a tiny little long legged thing. Anyway, my wife and I went through all the steps to make sure she wasn’t just lost. Facebook, vets and animal shelters etc. No one ever claimed her so she lives here. (2 years now) About 6 weeks after she arrived we bought a camper. A small walk in trailer rig. We were loading up for the first trip and the little dog was suddenly no where to be found. My wife found her hiding in a box of supplies in the camper. Somehow that dog knew we were leaving for a while and was trying not to get left behind.” Source
Testing the Limits
“We had a dog that liked to roam the neighborhood too much so we installed one of those wireless fences that give a shock from a collar when you cross it. The law requires it to beep and give a warning before the shock to train the dog to stop, which is good. But she figured out that if she got near it then it would start beeping. So she went to where the beeping started and laid down. Then just lay there until the beeping stopped and she knew the battery was drained and too weak to shock her so she would just walk across.” Source
Brr…It’s Cold in Here
“I had left my dog home alone for about an hour. It was the middle of winter and my family were very poor and didn’t have oil or very good insulation in some parts of the house. So I got back and I found my dog with every single blanket in the house on my bed and he was in the very center of all of them.”Source
Say My Name, Say My Name
“I have a parrot. We have a black cat called shadow and he comes when we say his name. One day I hear Oliver (my parrot) saying ‘Shadow! Shadow!’ while he’s in the kitchen on the stool. I look outside and shadow is at the door begging to be let in. Also once I accidentally woke Oliver up and he started grumbling, ‘sh-t sh-t sh-t!'” Source
Turnabout Is Fair Play
“I witnessed this with my uncle’s dog. My uncle was lying on the couch and she was lying on his feet and legs. He let out a huge fart which was aimed directly at her face. She lifted her head and glared at him and he started laughing. She got up and walked away in disgust. A few minutes later she came back, jumped up on his chest, stuck her butt in his face and farted on him and walked away. I laughed so hard I cried and gave her so many treats.” Source
Foiling the Bad Guys
“I had the best dog ever. One night I was fast asleep and he was gently ‘biting’ my hand just enough to wake me up. Once I woke up he started tugging on it as if to say, follow me. It was so weird. SO I follow him and he leads me to the side door or my house, sits facing the door and barks ever so silently. I then realize someone is outside picking the lock. I called 911. It was a drunk guy, no idea what his intentions were once he got in, but my dog for some reason managed to get him arrested. He probably would have been scared away had my dog just barked, but for some reason the old boy wanted to alert me quietly.” Source
Rain or Shine…
“Our cat hears the mailman delivering the mail through the letter slot in the door. He races to it, grabs each piece in his teeth, and then drags them – one by one – to the chair where I’m sitting. If a piece of mail is too heavy for him to move, he just sits at my feet, MEOWING, looking back and forth between the letter slot and me.” Source
Smarter Than the Average Rat
“I have pet rats. One of them broke a tooth, and the infection spread to her brain (the teeth go all the way up above the brain). I had her on antibiotics, but she was a bit ’tilted’ to one side. When they were out on a table, I noticed her falling over near the edge of the table, and was afraid that she would fall.
However, before I have time to react and move, another of my rats walk up to her, takes a firm but careful grip around the base of her tail and pulls her away from the edge of the table. Now, I know one should be careful in placing human thoughts in animal heads, but usually, a rat ‘biting’ another rat’s tail is a surefire way to start a fight, and I can’t see any other reason to do it except that she saw ahead, noticed the potential problem, figured out what to do to solve it and implemented that solution.
She’ll always be remembered my little hero rat. That’s not the only time I’ve seen rats do things that makes me go ‘WTF?!?! How did they figure that out?’, but it’s the most impressive event. I have both rats and a dog, and the rats are as smart as the dog, possibly smarter.” Source
The Dog That Mastered Parkour
“I snuck downstairs and watched my small dog delicately push the chairs and a couple cardboard boxes around into an specific orientation, then wildly parkour across the objects in order to get to my dinner sitting on the table. He also carefully moved the fork out of the way using his claws so that it wouldn’t make any noise. I notified him of my presence right before he started eating and he just froze and then looked really guilty. In addition, when I have a panic attack, my dog will sometimes bring me his favorite stuffed animal because I assume he thinks it will comfort me like it comforts him.” Source
The Poop Patrol
“While I was out, my dog pulled a piece of paper out of the trash and pooped on it so that he wouldn’t poop on the floor.” Source
He Can Hear You
“My friend’s pet. I was sitting on the couch with a buddy while said friend was making some food, and while we were talking, her dog started to eat food from its bowl. When he got out of food, he tried to press the button that opens the lid of the device, that releases more food to the bowl. He didn’t make it. I started laughing and said ‘What a stupid dog…’ The dog immediately stopped and stared at me. I stopped laughing. The dog kept staring, pissed. After solid 10 seconds, the dog walked away on the opposite direction. After a few steps, the dog stopped, turned his head and stared at me for 5 more seconds. Then left. I got scared.”Source
The Sweet Taste of Revenge
“I have a African grey and but when he wants to be can be a vindictive little sh-t. When I was first taking him home (he was originally my mom’s) I was also driving my sister home, she had just had jaw surgery so she was on meds that gave her motion sickness. So I get the bird in his travel cage and wrap it in a towel, then get my sister in, and both of them are being irritable little sh-ts so about ten minutes into the drive my sister reaches back and smacks the side of his travel cage to shut him up. About and hour later, sister gets sick. I pull over, she darts out of the car, Jojo f–king starts laughing. His cage is still wrapped so the first time I assume it’s just his response to us stopping because how could he know she’s sick? She got sick five times that drive and he laughed at her every time. With my mother’s laugh. He also used to have a habit of calling the dogs by name, mimicking the fire alarm to make them howl, howling with them to keep them going, then laughing at my mom when she came up the stairs to shut them up. (Now he mostly just sings to me and asks for cheese he’s mellowed out a lot)” Source
Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
“Flatmate arrived home with fast food. Went upstairs. Dog then barked at the door, flatmate went downstairs to check the door. Dog ate the food. I heard the blood curdling screams from my downstair bedroom. One of many, many stories of my Jack Russell’s ability to calculate, anticipate, and obtain the reward.” Source