Some dogs can classify their toys by function

arstechnica.com

28 points by pseudolus 2 days ago


throwaway422432 - a day ago

Our German Shepherd is as particular about her toys as her food.

She mainly likes squeaky plush toys, doesn't like rope toys at all. She also likes tennis balls which is a completely different game to the ones she plays with the plushies.

The smell factor might explain why she initially turns completely off a favourite toy after it goes through the wash.

mielioort - 2 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_(science_fiction) ?

jtokoph - 2 days ago

Our golden retriever knows the difference between her tug toys, plushie toys and chew toys. When we ask her to put her toys away she used to only collect the plushies and put them in the basket. We had to do extra training to get her to associate clean up with all types.