Here's this fortnight's top story as voted on our website - 5 November 2009

Chilli's secret

Chilli loves to impress Puppy School audiences with her "tricks" and enjoys coming along with me to "inspire new puppy owners". In addition to having lots of fun with their puppies, they learn basic commands for "polite and social behaviour".

Chilli is very clever but this is really made evident when time after time during a scent discrimination "trick", Chilli is able to select plastic alphabets thrown onto the floor in answer to a question I have asked her.

Unknown to our audience, I have handled and placed "my scent" on the alphabets to the "answer" word. However, what totally amazes me is that somehow, almost all of the time, she selects the letters in the correct order! I have not taught Chilli how to do this, and I don't know how she does it - I guess it's Chilli's secret!!!!!

True story by Julie Raverty from Australia 

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