An 11-year-old dog whose owner was told she would be untrainable has learned to play the classic game Connect 4. Border Terrier Bramble lives with dog trainer and behaviourist Jodie Forbes and has learned dozens of tricks, including playing the game, reports DorsetLive.
Jodie, 25, plays the game with Bramble and 11-month-old Willow, a Kelpie and Border Collie Cross. Jodie, said: “When I was a kid, I read that Border Terriers were ‘untrainable’, ‘not to be trusted off-lead’ and ‘highly stubborn’ and I vowed to prove that wrong.
“Bramble has learned hundreds of tricks and her and Willow’s latest is to play Connect Four. I started by using socks and a plastic tub and I’d get them use their nose-eye co-ordination to drop the sock in a tub. Then I used smaller and smaller objects until we they were able to pick the Connect Four tokens up in their mouths and drop them in the top of the grid.
