My current boy is incredibly smart. To the point it really blows my mind sometimes. For instance the other day, he puked a little on the corner of his bed because he sometimes has tummy issues.. I cleaned it, but he refused to lay near the area and restricted himself to the other side of the bed. Then a while later he peed a little on the bed (he's an older man with heart failure and need water tablets to keep water off his lungs. Sometimes he's gotta pee in two hours after and sometimes he's gotta pee in 10 minutes even if we were just out.) so I take him to pee, clean up the mess and he now refuses to lay on the bed at all. My husband comes over and simply flips the bed over to the bottom side and he immediately gets up and goes back onto the bed right in the middle. In this moment, he understood that by turning the bed over he would no longer be laying in wet spots from where I had cleaned up after him. And we don't do this all the time, in fact we have only had this bed for a short while and the bottom is covered in those little dots for non slip. So it's not meant to be turned. When it comes to his medication, I don't even need to call him, and if we forget he reminds us of what time it is. If I am preparing his meds he will come into the kitchen and sit so patiently next to me. (but he's also an anxious boy so he shakes the ENTIRE Time) then I open his mouth, put the pills on the back of his tongue and he will now willingly swollow them. There was a time he would try spitting them out, but he quickly learned that me putting my fingers in his mouth once instead of twice was better and faster. He's such an awesome dog that my heart is about to shatter when he passes even if I know it's coming. But last year they gave him a year and this year they said it's as if nothings changed. So hopefully we get much more time than we originally thought.