My back yard is like a tortoise festival. There is one spot they can get in under the fence which is visible from the back door. My dog has made friends with one of them. Now when she sees them crawl under the fence she begs to go out. If it is not her friend she flips them over. I told her not to do that any more as it hurts them and it was becoming a full time job for me to flip them right side. She stopped flipping them over. I'm still shocked she understood.

We have to trick her to get her into the cat carrier, because she knows there’s a 99% chance she’s going to the vet.

And we can never use the same method to trick her twice.

I’ll be in the kitchen doing something and listen to the parakeets talking, and repeat something they’ve said, about the 2nd or 3rd time one of them will say either “You heard us” or “She hears us”....they know I am listening to them and they will tell each other or me.