A VERY clever boy! Border Collie who can identify his 80 toys by name and fetch beer from the fridge stuns This Morning viewers with his intelligence
- Border Collie Bear correctly identifies names of his soft toys during memory test
- Owner Sophie Gloss, 27, from Guernsey, can teach a new toy in three minutes
- Appeared on This Morning where the animal impressed viewers with his skills
- Animal is able to fetch beer for guests from the fridge and understand FaceTime
A Border Collie whose astonishing memory skills made him an internet sensation has stunned This Morning viewers with his very impressive intelligence.
Owner Sophie Gloss, 27, from Guernsey, appeared on the show with six-year-old pet dog Bear, who went viral last month after she shared a clip of the animal rapidly identifying 11 of his toys by name.
Since then, the dog has learned to recognise 80 toys, and Sophie says that it only takes Bear three minutes to learn a new name, and that his ‘party trick’ is fetching guests a beer from the fridge.
Viewers were delighted after his appearance today, where he was able to quickly identify and fetch five of his toys, with several hailing the animal ‘amazing’ and ‘adorable’.
Six-year-old Border Collie Bear appeared on This Morning today to show off his astonishing memory skills and identified five of his toys by name
Owner Sophie Gloss, 27, from Guernsey, appeared on the show with Bear after the pair went viral earlier this year
Bear became an online star in January when Sophie posted a video of her dog picking out 11 of his toys – which has since racked up over 5,000 views and hundreds of likes.
‘I just put it up for fun and the next thing I knew I was getting messages from friends, and all around the world’, said Sophie.
‘He was fetching his toys in the living room and I had laid them out just spontaneously, saying different toys and he was picking them out.’
Viewers were delighted after his appearance today, where he was able to quickly identify and fetch five of his toys, with several hailing the animal ‘amazing’ and ‘adorable’
Learning the name of one of his toys takes Bear around three minutes, and Sophie teaches her pet by repeating the name during a came of fetch.
‘They [Border Collies] hang on to every word,’ said Sophie. ‘It’s like having a really small child listening to everything.
‘He can feel when you’re upset and he will come and cuddle you and if you’re excited he’s like “Oh what are we excited for?”.’
Sophie said that Bear can understand the concept of video calls, and will answer the commands of her family while she speaks to them over FaceTime.
Bear became an online star in January when Sophie posted a video of her dog picking out 11 of his toys, including a dinosaur and caterpillar – which has since racked up over 5,000 views and hundreds of likes
Sophie said on the show that it only takes Bear three minutes to learn a new name, and that his ‘party trick’ is fetching guests a beer from the fridge
She says Bear can understand the concept of video calls, and will answer the commands of her family while she speaks to them over FaceTime
‘She [mum] can give him a command on FaceTime and he’ll do it and most dogs aren’t interested in other people on FaceTime, even on the laptop, he’ll do it’.
Sophie says and that she and Bear are aiming to reach 100 toys and viewers were quick to praise the intelligence of the animal.
One viewer gushed: ‘Oh wow! That dog on #ThisMorning is amazing! So, so clever!’
‘Currently crying over the dog on This Morning!”, wrote another.
While a third teased: ‘I wish my cat was this smart’.