Doonie the Rainbow Dog

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We looked over and he had made a LINE of the rainbow colors, all equally spaced! The last two toys had the most texture and were multicolored so did not fit in the rainbow order. We feel this is amazing and want to try to catch Sparky on video. He seems methodical the way he eats at times, an example would be banging the crate door twice before eating.

She always puts them back there too. The link contains a video as well. The article discusses Donny the Doberman, which was featured […]. Someone I work with sent me this article because I have a chihuahua that lines everything up. His dog food, toys, especially the small tennis balls that he plays with most of the time. When he is done he will push with his nose or paw any item that is not in a straight line into place.

Yesterday they stole potatoes I had just washed off of my kitchen counter and when we found them on their pillow they were lined up in a perfectly straight line with a bite out of each one! Amazing to find other dogs do this same kind of behavior. Wish I knew what was going through their minds! Barbara Smuts at the University of Michigan may have found an example of art-like behavior in a Doberman Pincher named Donnie. Donnie has a very unusual habit of arranging toys in geometric patterns, particularly triangles.

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From my experience seems that Donnie is autistic. The way you described his behaviour and his long adjustment time etc. Please feel free to contact me for more info. The oldest has been arranging her toys since she was a baby. Most of the time the pattern is a straight line or semi-circle. She stopped doing it for awhile, but the other day, she started it again. As for the five year old, she has imitated this behavior, I think and brings the toys up to my bed. The other day I found one in my bed, face up, head on the pillow, with covers pulled up to its chin, just like a child would be tucked in at night.

I am a life long shelter adopter and most that I have visited in search of the perfect Doberman are the typical layout of rows of interconnecting chain link kennels each with 1 dog. I, too, would love a Donnie update. We adopted him from a shelter when he was a puppy.

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We began to notice this behavior several years ago. He arranges his toys in parallel lines with the toys layed out parallel to each other. The distant between each toy is similar. At first I was sure my husband was doing this as a joke but it has occured when he is not at home. He does not appear to be a genius but he is very neurotic. It took us a long time to teach him to get out of the car.

He would get in but stepping down to get out on his own scared him. We finally conquered this but he still exits the car very slowly and carefully and only after several attempts. In spite of his fears he loves people and other animals. We have a 2 year old black labrador who has been doing this too. During the times we are out he is left with a number of chew bones he tends to shred any cuddly toys to pieces if not supervised! When we come back he has arranged them into either squares, triangles or straight rows. I have a Great Dane who is 2 years old now and has been lining up her toys and making different patterns with her toys.

I have asked several people; vets, dog trainers, and pet lovers if they have known any dog to do this and everyone has said no. The only comment that was made was that my vet said she had OCD ha ha. Anyway, I am so curious as to why she does this. If anyone has any info. I have an almost 9 yr old blue heeler that has recently been going through chemotherapy. I was cleaning house one afternoon and noticed 7 toys in a perfect line and spaced exactly 3 feet apart. I quicly went and got the wife to show her this. As I was showing her, my dog added her favorite toy on an end. The toys were aligned from one window to another.

We have rescue Chesapeake Bay retreivers at any one time. Ours run the gamut from dumb as dirt to Einstein dogs. Earl has unbelievable cognitive abilities. He problem solves and understands a huge vocabulary. He knows all the names of his toys and which are the newest. He takes extremely good care of his things and appreciates everything you give him. He just loves to be challenged by learning new things. My guess is that although he has no concept of time everything in the dog world is now , he has an intelligence level similar to a pre-schooler.

They are pack animals and social, they enjoy company and will keep each other company. They are WAY smarter than we think. My coworkers and I were watching this today.

In the clip, you can notice visible movement to two of the stuffed toys sitting on the window ledge behind the owner and Donnie while they are sitting on the white cushion seat. The movement is quite unexplained and there is also a shadow that seems to make the movement happen. I know this is a bit crazy and takes a bit of willingness to believe in the paranormal.

However, do you think it is possible that ghosts have as much fun playing with our pets as we do? Would it be too far fetched that Donnie is retrieving and placing items based on the commands of another member in the home that only he is aware of. Something to think about. Did anyone see the stuff animals moving on their own in the video? Around 40 seconds into the video 2 of the animals move. I had a little terrier that looked like Toto from the wizard of Oz who was born blind in his left eye.

Every stuffed animal that was given to him he would pluck the left eye out! I sure miss that little mutt! Long live Fidget aka Putzboy! So how does he know they belong together? In the original Nat Geo special, it showed him combining at least three different model frog toys, none of which looks alike. One of the most interesting questions is how he is recognizing that these particular toys even belong in the same category.

This type and level of ability has been thought a very unique human skill. She uses only her oldest toy,a foot high ball on a spring base,as the lead of her arrangement, usually at some point directly lined up with our front door. Then she will line up extremely tiny pieces of paper, equally distant from each other. The next morning a new one appears. So if anyone has any leads or shares please let me know.

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I have a four year old male boxer dog that has begun to arrange his toys and also gathers things from the household, socks, bathrobe ties, neckties, his chewy bones and makes arrangements in the dining room on a large rug that is just open space with no furniture on it. Like a blank canvas! He will not arrange if anyone is in the room or watching him. He changes the arrangements multiple times and when he is finished with one, he comes into the family room where I am for long periods of time due to a back injury. When I get to the dining room, sure enough, there is a new design.

He is delighted and excited that I came to see his work and liked it! This can go on for a long time. We plan to get a camera that can video tape this activity, motion activated if I can afford that. He also places items in sets of threes at the end of a linear design but never in random places, always at the end. I would like to know who to forward a copy of the video to and also will I get any feedback from the person receiving the tape? This just came to my attention recently, My dog has been coming in my room and staring at me and whimpering for a couple of weeks and I just did not know what he wanted, He did not give up on me and was delighted when I finally noticed.

He was 2 months old. He has been lining up his toys or putting them in circles since he was a pup. He is now 10 months old and still does it. Once they are lined up he does not play with them. I swear he uses a measuring tape for the distance between them. If they are in a circle he lays in the middle of them. I have tried moving them and he gives me a dirty look and puts it back where he had it. If I do that he takes it right back outside. If I watch him he stops in his tracks until L leave. I have pictures and have called my neighbors over to see this craziness.

He definitely has a mind of his own. My poodle, a puppy of 8 months, just started lining up her toys a couple weeks. She usually takes care of the dog, so maybe the trauma of her main squeeze has been a catalyst. Either that or I have a genius dog. My dog Rosey is a female golden retriever chow mix.

She is a rescue,and also a special-needs dog. She has canine epilepsy,anyway,for the first year we had her she would take her toys and arrange them either in a semi-circle,in front of the sofa I was sitting on,or in a straight line from me to her. She always seems to always have to be touching me in some way,whether holding hands,lying against me,or having a trail of toys from me to her.

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I love her so much,it is the most touching thing I have ever experienced. I was very touched by the show featuring Donnie the dog genius. It is my feeling that he is a very sensitive dog, and he expresses strong emotions— especially when he arranged the hugging animals after his human hugged him for the first time. He is so intelligent and loving. I foresee a long, happy and love-filled life for them both. We have a Dobi that my husband purchased for me from a breeder..

Shes very smart and its good to hear others sharing this experience. My husband surprised me with a black law. He purchased this precious pup from our hometown hardware store. She not only arranges her toys and chew toys, but she also takes drinks of water to one of our other dogs. No one would believe us until my sister and Hus and saw this occur with there own eyes in amazement. We have never known a dog that has performed this task. Is there a connection with the toy arranging and being a water drink dog?

I have pictures,it is so cute. Again, no idea what his story was before we got him. Oh my gosh my sanity is restored. Tried peering around the door a few times but when she saw me watching she did not start the task. I interpreted the hugging behavior of two toys a bit different: Since she is set on this being a privately arranged activity until I actually see her in action I will be in the dark.

However, the work of Donnie is so similar in many ways it is scary! Who knows what they could construct together. Honestly a month ago I would have thought you made it all up! If your dog or a dog you know arranges objects into patterns, I would like to hear from you. Please e-mail me at: I observed, admittingly with a expectancy bias, that the shapes that these dogs are creating are strikingly similar to the shapes attributed to the vast majority of UFO sightings: V-shaped, L-shaped, semi-circular and straight lines.

I adopted a cocker spaniel about 3 weeks ago. This morning she had a perfect line of 4 items. She had a bouncy ball, a chew item, a bouncy ball and a red bow in that order. I took pictures because it was so unusal. She has not moved anything and it has been 4 hours. She gets other balls around the house to play with. She rejected one right away put it away from the others. My Mom reported to me this morning, Last night Foxy arranded a line of shoes from the bedroom to the livingroom. In the living room was the circle of puppies 7 of them with her brush in the middle.

The one she did not like was in the other room. I ordered a camcorder to give to my Mom today. My Mom just adopted a puppy about 13 weeks old that came from a kill shelter in New Mexico. She looks like a fox so they named her Foxy. After just a few days, she started collecting all the shoes in the house and arranging them in a straight line, all right side up, all toes pointing the same way. She does not chew on anything, but bones. She was potty trained in a day. She does not bark. She is just the smartest dog I have ever seen..

You can look at her and just know she understands everything you say. Would love to have a animal behaviorist meet her while she is still so young. This is so amazing how Donnie arranges his toys and certainly cannot be explained as just a random act. Dogs are much smarter than people ever imagined. I have a Great Pyrenese and a Lab mix the Lab mix was acquired as a stray , both of whom occassionally get stuffed toys. They guard my 5 goats on 40 acres. They will take the toys and stash them somewhere on the property, then later the toys reappear again, but these dogs take care of them.

Perhaps they have strategic points where they stash and pick and choose which toys get to come back to the pen and when. But of course they go to Heaven. Donnie the Doberman Arranges Toys Dobermans Den unfortunately the video is blocked where I am, maybe others will see it. I did see the program […]. Check out this video about him. She does not arrange her toys in patterns, but does bring them to her bed at night. Recently she made very good friends with my parrot, Dakota. It was as if she brought his feather with her to keep her company and remind her of him.

I saw donnie on tv in tokyo tonight and just think he is beyond precious! Its so great to also read about other beautiful people who rescued their beloved pups. This might explain why the patterns are increasing in their complexity as the dog attempts to please the owner. Bringing in the researcher serves to increase the dogs reward for his behavior. But we have had to lock doors because she knows how to open the front door lever and the sliding doors. Awkward when we are not home and the heat or air-conditioning is on. She often seems to do it so the older dog can get into the heat!

Probably not that unusual, but she has proven to be extremely intelligent about many things. I have a year-old Lhasa Apso that I got when he was 1 year old as a second chance rescue. He was very sickly for a long time. He has always loved his stuffed squirrels and his toys were in as good a shape years later as when purchased new. He loved making them squeak.

The first time I saw him arrange them I was working at the computer. I turned around and he had lined them up all facing the same way, equi-distant from each other.

I told my grown daughter who laughed and thought I was nuts. One time she was visiting and we were laying on my bed watching a movie. Chucky had been busily going in and out of the room. When I leaned over the end of the bed he had been bringing in every squirrel of every size and they were all lined up the same way — and so was he! Napping along with them. I believe he was taken from his litter too soon and these were his littermates — when I first got him he would try to nurse and would burrow under my stomach if I lay on my side.

He still sleeps up against either my back or stomach. A year after I got him, we got a second Lhasa rescue — whose never been much of a player with toys. I think they were his surrogate puppies. Since ive adopted my long haired chihuahua shes been lineing up her toys and her balls in perfect straight lines, if one of her bones are horizontal the other must be if its vertical the same and mostly exactly 2 ft apart.

I noticed recently that he has been arranging them. Last night I took pictures because he had 3 bird toys and one other toy in a semi-circle around the grill, all facing up and all with their feet toward the grill while he was in the middle of the circle looking out over the yard.

I checked a little later when he came in and he had moved one, just simply turned it to face the door instead of the grill. She is also making V patterns, half circles and diamond patterns, most always with something in the center. Last week she made a complex V pattern which has 3 puppies arranged nose to nose in the center of the triangle.

Then, at one point of the triangle she put 3 puppies bottom to bottom. On another point there was 2 more objects touching at a 45 degree angle. She also brought out her dress to make another point plus a puppy to complete the triangle shape with 4 points. We have taken pictures of her creations but since she only does it when we are not in the room, tomorrow we are going to set up a camera to record her making these, sometimes, complex arrangements.

At first we thought it was a random coincidence but now she is making one every other day and they are very distinct patterns which leave no doubt that she is creating them on purpose, for what I have no idea. Luna, my 6 year old Golden-Border Collie mix. I am thrilled to learn she is not alone! I would love to learn more about dogs who create patterns with their toys. Perhaps it is more common than we realize!? I have a collie golden retriever mix that I got from the collie rescue in april.

I thought it was a hoot but also thought it was a random act. She treats each one like gold…very gentle with them. I will be paying closer attention to where Gracie places her babies. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Leave this field empty. Frog triangle Completed circle of toys More Posts: Alica L Salines said: My cat Posh arranges his toys and makes designs with his toys.

Hello, We are a modest couple with our only parent hood, is thru our precious, fur baby, Oreo. We became reclusive when I retired 9 yrs ago, goes everywhere with me. I would love to know what, if anything, it means. A study on doberman toy arranging - Doberman Forum: Epistles from a Time of Persecution:. My beloved children, I want to tell you that on the day after the departure of our brothers Kuntz and Michel, on a Friday, we saw three suns in the sky for a good long time, about an hour, as well as two rainbows. These had their backs turned toward each other, almost touching in the middle, and their ends pointed away from each other.

And this I, Jakob, saw with my own eyes, and many brothers and sisters saw it with me. After a while the two suns and rainbows disappeared, and only the one sun remained. Even though the other two suns were not as bright as the one, they were clearly visible. I feel this was no small miracle… [22]. The original was written in German and is from a letter originally sent in November from Auspitz in Moravia to the Adige Valley in Tyrol.

The Thursday after was October For two hours in the morning of April 20, , the skies over the city were filled with white circles and arcs crossing the sky, while additional suns i. The phenomenon quickly resulted in rumours of an omen of God's forthcoming revenge on King Gustav Vasa — for having introduced Protestantism during the s and for being heavy-handed with his enemies allied with the Danish king.

Hoping to end speculations, the Chancellor and Lutheran scholar Olaus Petri — ordered a painting to be produced documenting the event. When confronted with the painting, the king, however, interpreted it as a conspiracy — the real sun of course being himself threatened by competing fake suns, one being Olaus Petri and the other the clergyman and scholar Laurentius Andreae — , both thus accused of treachery, but eventually escaping capital punishment. The original painting is lost, but a copy from the s survives and can still be seen in the church Storkyrkan in central Stockholm.

A series of complex parhelia displays in Rome in , and again in , were described by Christoph Scheiner in his book Parhelia , one of the earliest works on the subject. On 20 February the people of Danzig witnessed a complex halo display , described by Georg Fehlau in a pamphlet, the Sevenfold Sun Miracle , and again the following year by Johannes Hevelius in his book, Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani. In , winter in the British Colony of Newfoundland was referred to as the 'Winter of Three Suns' and was unusually cold with 15 days of temperatures between degrees below zero.

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