Border terrier Bramble learns Connect Four and plays against a Border Collie cross
dailystar.co.ukdog new tricks but Bramble is learning to play Connect Four at the grand age of 11. The adorable Border Terrier lives with dog trainer and behaviourist Jodie Forbes and has learned dozens of tricks, including playing the classic 1970s game.
Jodie plays with Bramble and Willow, an 11-month old Kelpie and Border Collie Cross having taught both dogs to pick up tokens and drop them in the grid.
Jodie, 25, from Bournemouth in Dorset, explained: “When I was a kid, I read that Border Terriers were ‘untrainable’, ‘not to be trusted off-lead’ and ‘highly stubborn’ and I vowed to prove that wrong. “Bramble has learned hundreds of tricks and her and Willow’s latest is to play Connect Four.
I started by using socks and a plastic tub and I’d get them use their nose-eye co-ordination to drop the sock in a tub. “Then I used smaller and smaller objects until we they were able to pick the Connect Four tokens up in their mouths and drop them in the top of the grid. “If a token falls on the floor or table, they know to pick it up and drop it in again.
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