This troper recalls his prom day evening. My prom date's dad was trying to get a picture of my prom date and I together, and her pet dog was repeatedly getting in the way and sniffing at my crotch. It was quite awkward, and VERY annoying. For what it's worth, we were only going as friends, but still... I couldn't help but feel reminded of Burns' line about dogs. (As in, the one that was quoted on the main trope page.) If I ever have a dog, (and that's a big "if") it will probably be one of the more intelligent breeds, like a border collie.

This Troper's dog, Rufus, fits this perfectly. Instead of whining or pawing to get attention, he'll poke whoever is closest to him in the bare leg with his cold, wet, nose. He tries to climb up onto the table to steal scraps even when he can see one of us watching him. Multiple times, he's gotten into the compost bucket in the kitchen and drug scraps all across the floor. He makes a mess with his food and water, to the point where we've joked about putting wet floor signs around his bowls. He's cute, but his brain capacity is definitely lower than many dogs that I've met.

This troper has also met many dogs at the kennel where she works. One was so desperate to break into a bag of food that he cut his nose trying to squeeze through the run door. Another dog that gets honorable mention for being an idiot was the dog who got out of his run and proceeded to slam into the glass doors leading to the store area of the kennel.

This troper was outside one day throwing a frisbee for her extremely enthusiastic chocolate lab. The frisbee happened to fly in the perfect angle to go over the garbage can. Unfortunately, frisbees are SeriousBusiness and there was no time to pause and go around the garbage can in this dog's mind. He instead slammed headlong into it, making an absolutely ''brilliant'' skull-fracturing-into-a-thousand-pieces-on-contact cracking sound. And of course he just keeps right on going afterwards. Of course.