Our golden retriever knows the difference between her tug toys, plushie toys and chew toys. When we ask her to put her toys away she used to only collect the plushies and put them in the basket. We had to do extra training to get her to associate clean up with all types.
We had a shih tzu that knew all her toys by name. I would just sit on the couch start asking for toys and she would bring them.
Whenever we got a new toy for her we just had to throw it saying its name a few times and she would know it from then on.
We weren't able to train her on most stuff but her toy game was clutch.
How did you teach a dog to clean up their toys? I've never seen a dog trained beyond normal sit, lie down, heel sort of thing.
They can learn a lot but it's hard work. Also, "intelligence" and "obeying commands" are very orthogonal in dogs. In fact, sometimes a very intelligent dog is very difficult to train.
Yep, but try training a husky to do that. (I'm not a huge fan of either yippie or dramatic pets.)
Love the mental image of her doing selective cleanup like, "Plushies go in the basket, the rest? Not my problem."