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After Seeing Students Use Money To Buy Food, Dog Uses Leaves To Get Some Too
After Seeing Students Use Money To Buy Food, Dog Uses Leaves To Get Some Too
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After Seeing Students Use Money To Buy Food, Dog Uses Leaves To Get Some Too

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There’s hardly anyone who can argue with the popular saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees,’ well, maybe except for this adorable dog. A clever canine named Negro managed to secure himself a seemingly endless supply of dog treats, by paying for them with leaves.

Negro lives at the Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare in Colombia. The stray dog was adopted by the staff and freely roam around the school’s yard. Students would sometimes buy Negro cookies at the local store, but one day the smart dog decided that it was time for him to stop begging for treats because he had a better plan. After careful observation, this dog did something unthinkable. “One day, spontaneously, he appeared with a leaf in his mouth, wagging his tail and letting it be known that he wanted a cookie,” teacher Angela Garcia Bernal told The Dodo.

The black dog offered ‘take it or leaf it’ deal for the store’s attendant. Astonished by the dog’s intelligence, she couldn’t help but ‘sell’ Negro a cookie. “He comes for cookies every day,” Gladys Barreto, a longtime store attendant, told The Dodo. “He always pays with a leaf. It is his daily purchase.” Since his fake money literally grows on trees, the store’s staff decided to allow Negro to buy treats only a couple times a day.

Smartest dog Negro left everyone speechless. “When you first see it, you almost want to cry. He’s found a way to make himself understood. He’s very intelligent,” Bernal said.

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    Meet Negro, a clever dog who lives at the Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare in Colombia

    Image credits: A Peña J David

    The dog was adopted by the school staff and freely roams around the school’s yard

    Image credits: Angela Garcia Bernal

    Negro managed to secure himself a seemingly endless supply of treats, by paying for them with leaves

    Image credits: A Peña J David

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    After seeing students giving something in exchange for cookies, he came up to the school’s store with a leaf in his mouth

    Image credits: A Peña J David

    The canine offered ‘take it or leaf it’ deal for the store’s attendant

    Astonished by the dog’s intelligence, she couldn’t help but ‘sell’ Negro a cookie

    Image credits: A Peña J David

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    Since his fortune literally grows on trees, the store’s staff decided to allow Negro to buy treats only couple times a day

    Image credits: A Peña J David

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    This clever dog left everyone completely speechless

    Image credits: A Peña J David

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    Cherie O
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So smart. I would sell him a treat. Sweetie pie.

    Space Nurd
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't for you Cherie so please don't get offended. It's for Lucy: YOU IDIOT. IF YOU WANT TO POST AN AD DO IT ON FACEBOOK OR YOU-TUBE OR LINKDEN! DON'T RUIN EVERYTHING!

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    Mo BC
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a clever Pup :)

    Sveta Smirnova
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Highly educated, staying in campus. Hopefully no exchange rate fluctuation on his currency :)

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    Llews Art
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is truly adorable ♥

    Diane Lloyd
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Finnish Spitz, TessaBell, used to trade dog money all the time for treats. Dog money could be anything that was dropped on the floor that didn't belong there...a piece of lint, a leaf, a button, pins that my grandmother dropped around her sewing area (yes, scared me to death that Tess might swallow one but I couldn't get her to stop bringing them to me when she found them). Her treats were switched from dog cookies to baby carrots when the doctor said she needed to go on a diet. Fine with her!

    Dian Ella Lillie
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many primate species have shown the spontaneous ability to use currency, and can easily be taught to do so, and crows have been known to bring gifts in exchange for treats. This is not to take anything from Negro - he's an impressinvely clever dog for watching how humans buy cookies, and deducing a way that he can emulate them. Clever boy!

    Dian Ella Lillie
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a sidebranch of this subject that people might be interested in, but I won't say too about about it here beyond that there's an interesting (if you're a biologist!) body of work on animals and 'transactional sex'.

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    DAMIEN GARZA
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well our parents lied to us, money does grow on trees. Money is made of paper and paper comes form trees, life is a lie

    earringnut
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that is some higher level thinking for a dog.

    diane a
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aww - beautiful clever dog - mine used to bring me laundry and expect a treat lol

    diane a
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2 T shirts and a bra got her a biscuit

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    Bored Bear
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So this doggo is basically selling leaves (which is totally useless to human) for cookies. A real salesdoggo.

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    Cherie O
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So smart. I would sell him a treat. Sweetie pie.

    Space Nurd
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't for you Cherie so please don't get offended. It's for Lucy: YOU IDIOT. IF YOU WANT TO POST AN AD DO IT ON FACEBOOK OR YOU-TUBE OR LINKDEN! DON'T RUIN EVERYTHING!

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    Mo BC
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What a clever Pup :)

    Sveta Smirnova
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Highly educated, staying in campus. Hopefully no exchange rate fluctuation on his currency :)

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    Llews Art
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is truly adorable ♥

    Diane Lloyd
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Finnish Spitz, TessaBell, used to trade dog money all the time for treats. Dog money could be anything that was dropped on the floor that didn't belong there...a piece of lint, a leaf, a button, pins that my grandmother dropped around her sewing area (yes, scared me to death that Tess might swallow one but I couldn't get her to stop bringing them to me when she found them). Her treats were switched from dog cookies to baby carrots when the doctor said she needed to go on a diet. Fine with her!

    Dian Ella Lillie
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many primate species have shown the spontaneous ability to use currency, and can easily be taught to do so, and crows have been known to bring gifts in exchange for treats. This is not to take anything from Negro - he's an impressinvely clever dog for watching how humans buy cookies, and deducing a way that he can emulate them. Clever boy!

    Dian Ella Lillie
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a sidebranch of this subject that people might be interested in, but I won't say too about about it here beyond that there's an interesting (if you're a biologist!) body of work on animals and 'transactional sex'.

    Load More Replies...
    DAMIEN GARZA
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well our parents lied to us, money does grow on trees. Money is made of paper and paper comes form trees, life is a lie

    earringnut
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that is some higher level thinking for a dog.

    diane a
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aww - beautiful clever dog - mine used to bring me laundry and expect a treat lol

    diane a
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    2 T shirts and a bra got her a biscuit

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    Bored Bear
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So this doggo is basically selling leaves (which is totally useless to human) for cookies. A real salesdoggo.

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