Geoff starting tying a short string onto some of her foot toys to fix them to her window perch (partly to stop her simply throwing them down for the exhausting game of 'pick-up'
) - and noticed that she very quickly learnt to pull the string to get the toy. He then tried with a much longer string and one of her favourite treats: it took her about 10 minutes to work out how to pull the string, stand on the bit she pulled, then pull the free-hanging string again.We've now tried with a really long piece of string - and posted the video to YouTube. Amazingly, this time she even worked out that she could hold the loop in one foot - which made the whole process of getting the treat even quicker and easier. Such a clever girl
and Marlies
