Our new pupster, Frankie

[cksmithy]

23. What a sweet pea!

We adopted our first dog from Monterey county spca, didn't know what breed she was as a puppy. Looked very much like Frankie. Very smart, learned how to shake hands after one time with a treat. She loved to run, we finally realized what she was when we saw an ad for a Scottish whiskey, with her in the ad. I finally took her to obedience class at 11 years of age, she of course was top dog, and flabbergasted/stunned the teacher, at her age and how how smart she was. When I took a another rescue dog to the same class several years later, the teacher was still telling how it's never too late to train a dog and was bragging about our sweet dog, who had since passed away at 16 years of age. Deaf and blind I would tap her on the shoulder and she would know which was to go to get her to bed or her food bowl. She was so sweet and would speak to you, ask her a question, and she would answer, with dog speak not barks but roo, roo. Had a great vocabulary knew words like bed, ride, walk, what do you want to do? We would spell words because she was so smart. Her name was Carol and way before digital photos so I can't post a picture of her. She spoiled us, we thought all dogs were that smart.