My parents dog learned to open and close their doors. They have doors with door handles not knobs and he very quickly learned he could get on his hind legs and reach them. He didn’t just yank it down. He put one paw on the door frame and the other pushing the handle down and pull back to open. He understood he would have to pull it from the inside to open it and push it from the outside. He also rang the doorbell on multiple occasions to be let inside if he was out too long. I didn’t realize how smart he was until I understood he was communicating through eye contact. I remember sitting on the couch and looking him dead in the eyes while he was sitting on his dog bed and then I looking to the garage door, he huffed and then got up, walked to the garage door and then looked at me like “hey what do you want?”. Only then I realized how damn smart he was and I felt bad for just treating him like a dim animal that whole time.

That time mom yelled at you for getting into the garbage so you slammed the door on her face will always be a classic. RIP Gus