What's the most intelligent thing your pet has ever done?

[hunter]

14. The most intelligent dogs we've had have been thieves and escape artists.

That's why our backyard is fenced like a prison.

It's one thing when your dog steals food off your own counter, it's quite another when you hear your dog scratching at the front door holding an entire rotisserie chicken in it's mouth expecting to be praised for bringing home dinner.

When I was a kid we had another very intelligent dog, some kind of border collie mix. One day my sister's parakeet escaped and we all spent hours trying to coax it near, nets in hand, until we lost it entirely. A few hours later I looked out the kitchen window and saw our dog ambling towards the house with the parakeet in her mouth. I figured the parakeet was dead when I opened the door and let her in. She dropped the parakeet on the floor and it was alive, just frozen in terror. An hour or two later the parakeet was back in it's cage carrying on as if nothing had happened.