Taking Orders

Today Treacle and I were talking about dogs.

"They must be particularly stupid," she was saying, "To have to learn how to sit and lie down and roll over."

"It's not the actions themselves," I told her, "It's the skill of performing them on demand."

"But that's not a skill at all," she said, confused, "That's just making the decision to listen."

"And here was I wondering why cats cannot be trained.." I muttered.