So my dog's figured out how to use simple tools.

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This would be the new collie we rescued a few months back.

He's a chewer and he's been getting stuff that we leave on top of the dining room table. We figured it's because he was pulling off the table cloth, which he was leaving askew, and grabbing stuff that fell on the floor.

So I wander into the kitchen today, and come back in, and there the little bugger is... standing right on the table, wagging his tail, and looking at me like he just discovered a cure for cancer. Turned out he's figured out how to push the wheeled ottoman out from the living room, into the dining room, and using it as a step ladder. This demonstrates tool use on a level of certain parrots, gorillas, and higher-percentile freepers.

So the moral of this story is- I, for one, welcome our handsome new canine overlords.