Anyone train their dog to bring tools ?

[Hephaestus29]

I've seen dogs go the refridgerator & bring back beers etc. but never tools.

 

[rsanter]

if you have a small toolbox on the ground that would be fine, but how would they get the drawers open on a toolbox
plus would their slobber start to rust the tools?

bob

 

[HaroRider]

He comes back with a hammer..."I said a 17mm wrench"

lol I dont think it would work..I can barely get my little sister to remember the difference between a channel lock and a needle nose.

 

[OutLore]

Mine's ok with metric, but he really struggles with SAE wrench sizes....

 

[PETE14]

I had a neighbor years ago who was Mexican. Super nice guy. He had a dog and all of his commands were in Spanish. It was funny because I didn't have a clue what he was telling the dog to do, but the dog knew.

Pete

 

[jsaw]

We have the opposite problem, the dog steals tools and looses them.

 

[RECox286]

Reminds me of a dog I had in my "younger" days...

We got Spot when he was a puppy, and noticed that along with some normal

activities like chewing anything and everything, he sometimes would pee

on the rug. Not trying to be mean, just trying to let him know that was

not acceptable behavior, I would rub his nose in it, then toss him out the

window. Months passed, no change in "pee, rub, toss" routine, and I was

starting to think Spot was just not 'right in the head', and would never get

the idea...but I was wrong...one day, Spot peed on the rug, rubbed his

nose in it, then jumped out the window !

Uncle Bob

 

[NC-Fordguy]

This reminds me of the movie "used Cars" with Kurt Russel. The dog got fussed at by the mechanic when he fetched a flathead instead of a phillips screwdriver.

The dog later peed on the mechanic when the mechanic fell asleep with a lit torch in his hand. Never laughed so hard

 

[egnorant]

I once had an Australian Shepard that was very smart and would fetch just about anything.

One day I was frustrated with a control arm as I was persuading it to come off and launched a 5 pound sledge across the yard. I saw it land just short of the neighbors yard
and I tried the "stare at it with anger" method of car repair.

About 5 minutes later I here a noise and this small dog was dragging my sledge the final few feet on the sidewalk and happily and wearily lays it at my feet.

I was proud and impressed as my brother shows up and asks why Megan is huffing and puffing so hard.

"Watch this!" I hurl the sledge hammer again...not as much distance, but still a throw to be proud of.

Megan goes on alert, gives me a look that says "Fool me once....."
Then gets a drink and lays down under a bush.

Told you she was smart.

Bruce

 

[Hetman]

Forget dogs, training cats is the real deal :

 

[MrSnicks]

If I was under my Jeep I could get my old Chocolate Lab to bring me tools that were nearby on the ground. It was a hit or miss thing because I would point and tell her to bring. She understood the concept but it might take a few tries to get her to bring what I actually wanted.

Patrick

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

My Border Collie Aussie mix could easily learn different tools, she just doesn't go to work with me. She already brings in the newspaper, brings in the compost bucket and gets hers and the other dogs collars down from the counter. She also knows her toys by name. And she learned all of this with very little coaching by me or my wife.

 

[sfm1951]

They always told me you had to be smarter than the animal you were working with.Yeah never had any luck with the dog or kids But the chocolate Lab will sit on stool and watch me. Steve

 

[BD1]

Yea, mine keeps taking the ''DOG BONE WRENCH"

 

[rsanter]

When my daughters dog was younger i went into the back yard to fix a broken sprinkler. I dug out aroundnthe sprinkler to get to the pipe and all the time the dog was watching me intently. When I finally got to where I wanted to be I set the shovel aside. The dog having watched what I was doing must have thought ' hey, I know how to do that. Let me help' as he started digging in the same hole and then looked at me as if to say ' there, is that what you wanted?'

Bob

 

[Hephaestus29]

I used to have a dog that would go out in the yard with me & pick up sticks & branches that had fallen from storms etc. not just little ones either there were a few that weighed probably 10 lbs that she'd drag behind the house & then i'd burn them later.

 

[yjWrangler]

Wouldn't really want the dog getting any grease or oil in its mouth. Or anything else on the tools.

 

[turbowoodworker]

My dog told me he'd help with fetching tools when I start buying Snap On! Oh well for that trick.

 

[4x4gearhead]

Wouldnt that dog suffer from dental issues? I mean, Ive seen dogs with bad teeth from chewing rocks so chrome and steel cant be any better lol.

 

[chrisziem]

My dog told me he'd help with fetching tools when I start buying Snap On! Oh well for that trick.

Well it is alot tastier than Harbor Freight.....

 

[2oolhound]

Some buddies had a giant St Bernard dog which was well suited to the harsh Canadian winters up in the north. He wanted to go for a romp in the frozen night so they let him out. A while later he was barking to come back in and when they opened the door there he was with a big bucket of frozen lobster tails at his feet. Every one up there uses the back door as a second refrigerator in the winter and some neighbors must have set the bucket out on their back porch to keep till company came for their planned feast. The buddies' dog got wind of them though so HIS owners had the feast in the end.

 

[WVBrady]

No, but a friend's german shephard would carry off geasy nuts and bolts off my motorcycle while I was working on it. Yuk!