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A dog walks into a butcher shop with a purse strapped around his neck. He walks up to
the meat case and calmly sits there until it's his turn to be waited on.

A man, who was already in the butcher shop, finished his purchase and, noticing the dog, stayed
to watch what the dog might do.

The butcher leaned over the counter and asked the dog, "What'll it be today?"

The dog put its paw on the glass case in front of the ground beef.

The butcher asked, "How many pounds?"

The dog barked twice, so the butcher made a package of two pounds ground beef.

He then asked the dog, "Anything else?"

The dog put its paw on the glass case in front of the pork chops.

The butcher asked, "How many?"

The dog barked four times, and the butcher made up a package of four pork chops.

The dog then walked around behind the counter, so the butcher could get at the purse.
The butcher took out the appropriate amount of money and tied two packages of meat
around the dog's neck.

The man, who had been watching all of this, decided to follow the dog. It walked for
several blocks and then trotted up to a house where it began to scratch the door to be
let in.

As the owner opened the door, the man said to the owner, "That's an extremely smart
dog you have there."

The owner said, "He's not really all that smart. This is the second time this week that
he's forgotten his key."
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