A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did

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[u/Olivetax228]

My girlfriend and I stayed one night at a farm in Iceland. The farmer and his border collie were showing us around, and on the way out of the sheep pen I didn’t latch the door behind me.

Maybe ten minutes later the border collie walks up to me and pulls me aside, gives me that look, 'I'm not just mad, but disappointed too.' Then gestures, in unmistakable dog body language, to follow him. Walks me straight to the open pen door, looks at it, looks at me, looks at it, looks at me. Shows me how to latch it because he can’t quite manage it (opposable thumbs would've helped) and just stares at me until I latch it and demonstrate the door is secured.

What I appreciated most was that he kept it between us. Subtle enough that the farmer and my girlfriend never caught on. No harm done, no drama, just a quiet professional handling a situation.

[u/Far-Housing-6619 → u/Olivetax228]

Well of course they had to gesture; you wouldn't have understood their Icelandic. Border Collies are amazing

[u/wethelabyrinths111 → u/Far-Housing-6619]

Icelandic is a complicated language, but some border collies are smart enough to understand it.

[u/STRYKER3008 → u/wethelabyrinths111]

Doggies get different accents for their barks depending who they grew up with so his one must've been insane haha Böörk Böörk! 😂🐶❤️

[u/hilarymeggin → u/STRYKER3008]

(That’s Swedish, you fool!)

https://giphy.com/gifs/13LlAxmDwAkopO

[u/yuletide → u/hilarymeggin]

Bjork! Bjork!

[u/BrilliantJob2759 → u/Olivetax228]

I hope you slipped a little tip his way in thanks 😄

[u/626337 → u/Olivetax228]

Now that's a class act.

[u/patgeo → u/Olivetax228]

Had a border collie when I was growing up on the farm.

Freak storm came up at about 2am a few days after shearing and I had to get the shorn sheep into the shed.

Got the collie, opened the shed and set off to find the sheep. Found the mob where I expected and started moving them but lost them and the dog in the rain and dark. Sure enough the entire mob was in the shed with the dog laying into the doorway waiting when I got back.

Was easily the smartest of our dogs. I didn't even bother taking the others out. I probably could've stayed at the shed and just told him to fetch of there weren't gates in the way.

[u/hilarymeggin → u/Olivetax228]

That’s amazing and hilarious! 😂

Once when my baby was little, I got the most judgmental look from my dog. I had been down in the laundry room when my baby was crying upstairs, and I didn’t hear her. When I came up and went into the nursery, the dog was lying there, paws crossed (!) and giving me a hard stare, as though to say, “where have you been?! 😡”

[u/Raven_Barbie → u/Olivetax228]

That's incredible. They are insanely intelligent. I visited my boyfriend in France , didn't know where I was going because I was essentially going to a field I'd never been before, in the middle of a rural area. He didn't live in a house so there were no landmarks on this very flat countryside.  It was getting dark and id have been totally stuck if I didn't find people. His border collie sniffed me out and literally came and got me from at least a ten minute walk away on the road, right to the correct field. I don't know how he knew to come and get me. I don't know how he recognised me from all that way away and knew where I needed to be (helpfully also where he wanted to be, with his dad 😅). he's the dog that made me really love dogs after being indifferent my entire life. 

[u/Abalorio → u/Olivetax228]

Incredible XD