¿Quién es un buen chico?

June 7, 2018 11:42 AM

There’s hardly anyone who can argue with the popular saying ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’, well, maybe except for this special canine. A clever [Colombian] dog named Negro managed to secure himself a seemingly endless supply of treats, by paying for them with leaves. (BoredPanda, and a few more pics at TheDodo)
posted by Johnny Wallflower (18 comments total)

1,234,094,993 out of 10.

He's the BEST DOG, Bront.
posted by cooker girl at 11:49 AM on June 7, 2018 [17 favorites]

If you're a dog it's cute. But try to pay for drinks at a bar with maple leaves and suddenly you're a "thief".
posted by Splunge at 11:51 AM on June 7, 2018 [17 favorites]

Good Boy the Fraudulent Capitalist should check his canine privilege. Where are the cries to send him into his kennel for counterfeiting?
posted by CynicalKnight at 11:59 AM on June 7, 2018 [4 favorites]

Porbably learned it from the crow who tried to buy a train ticket with someone else's credit card.
posted by briank at 12:00 PM on June 7, 2018 [13 favorites]

You fucked up a perfectly good wolf is what you did. Look at it. It's got capitalism.

posted by zamboni at 12:03 PM on June 7, 2018 [30 favorites]

a Very Good Boy
posted by poffin boffin at 12:19 PM on June 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

Teaching him to only do it once a day seems like the hardest challenge.

I read the twitter reactions to this expecting lots of Golgafrincham references. Instead, I found pro-market types saying things so silly, in the context of people happily giving away valuable things in "exchange" for leaves, that they're impossible to parody.
posted by eotvos at 12:20 PM on June 7, 2018 [8 favorites]

expecting lots of Golgafrincham reference

On the other hand, this totally feels like something the mice would’ve come up with as one of their science experiments on humans. “Make the dog pay with leaves and watch the primates hooting.”
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:25 PM on June 7, 2018 [11 favorites]

I used to walk my dog to the bank and the hardware store whenever I had to go, and both places give out treats at the counter, so now he's will jump up and put his front paws on any counter availabe (thankfully he is very cute). Counters=treats.
posted by Grandysaur at 12:27 PM on June 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

Paging HuronBob's leaf pup...
posted by MonkeyToes at 1:01 PM on June 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

Heya, ya beat me, you rapscallion!
posted by Samizdata at 1:56 PM on June 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

Oh, Bored Panda. You're like an American Daily Mail without the horrible parts.
posted by Nelson at 2:36 PM on June 7, 2018

and here my dad was telling me that money doesn't grow on trees all these years
posted by mwhybark at 3:03 PM on June 7, 2018

posted by mwhybark

I understand leaf, but why bark
I understand tail wag, but why bark
mm????
posted by otherchaz at 3:26 PM on June 7, 2018

Counters=treats

A seeing-eye dog once put his paws up on the Welcome Desk of the library where I volunteer, and his human immediately told him "Down, Joey! This isn't the bank. She doesn't have treats."
posted by ALeaflikeStructure at 3:51 PM on June 7, 2018 [10 favorites]

You SHOULD have treats...

Just sayin'
posted by Windopaene at 4:23 PM on June 7, 2018 [9 favorites]

When I read that this was in Columbia I immediately assumed that he was trading coca leaves as some part of a sophisticated micro-trafficking drug scheme.

I'm relieved, but also kind of disappointed.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:55 PM on June 7, 2018 [3 favorites]

"Down, Joey! This isn't the bank. She doesn't have treats."

Yep, I have definitely said that exact same thing to my dog, most recently at the brewery.
posted by Grandysaur at 10:33 PM on June 7, 2018 [1 favorite]