Yesterday I was in the backyard with Tira when I noticed a leaf bug on the screen on our deck. It was about five feet up. I called Tira over to show her the new bug and when she saw it she put her front feet up on the railing and swatted the screen twice gently with her paw to get the bug to move. When she did it took off and fly into the yard where she went off to chase it.
She just thought of doing that all by herself. She does little things like that all the time. Another example is when she was little we taught her to go potty in the yard. When she grew up a bit she had to go potty but we weren't paying attention so she rustled the vertical blinds by the back door and looked at us. We'd let her out but she figured that out by herself. She does that all the time now so we don't have to worry about her but recently she'd sometimes rattle the blinds then go to her food bag to try to get a snack. That didn't get her much food but it's nice to see her thinking things through.
