As you might have read in past posts, we have been going to training class with Fargo and he has shown to be quite quick at picking up things.

At home, for the last several weeks we’ve been working with Fargo to get him to ring a bell at the back door to let us know that he needs to go out.  Currently he goes to the door and will either just stare at it or sit there waiting for us to come open up the door.  When he does this, we go over and show him the bell and get him to sniff it or to paw it to show him that he needs to ring the bell.  We’ve also tried putting peanut-butter on it to get him to mess with it but so far, no such luck.  Fargo just has not grasped the idea…at all…not an inkling that the light bulb has even flickered on this, but we keep trying.

Tonight for the very first time, we were sitting at the dinner table and what did we hear?  Why it was the bell!  Oh my goodness, could it be?  Did Fargo finally understand to ring the bell to go out?  Could we be that fortunate after all these weeks?  Sigh, why no! Uku, our cat, rang the bell to go out! We haven’t even been showing the crazy cat what the bell is for!

Sigh, Fargo, you’ve been shown up by the cat….who got to go out!