A black dog named Negro has spent most of his life at the Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare in Colombia. The sweet dog guards the students and teachers, and in return, the school feeds him and takes care of him.
The students at the school often bought Negro cookies from the campus store to show him how much they loved him. Little did the students know, Negro was watching them as they bought the cookies. The clever dog noticed that the students were exchanging green paper for delicious treats. Negro decided that he wanted to give this a try.
One day, Negro walked into the campus store holding a green leaf. He gave that leaf to the store attendant and patiently waited for her to give him a treat.
“He would go to the store and watch the children give money and receive something in exchange,” Angela Garcia Bernal, a teacher at the school, told The Dodo. “Then one day, spontaneous, he appeared with a leaf in his mouth, wagging his tail and letting it be known that he wanted a cookie.”
The woman working at the store was amazed by Negro’s creativity and cleverness. She happily accepted his leaf money and gave him a cookie.
Once Negro saw that his plan worked, he started bringing more and more leaves to the store.
“He comes for cookies every day,” Gladys Barreto, one of the store attendants, told The Dodo. “He always pays with a leaf. It is his daily purchase.”
The store attendants didn’t want Negro to get sick, so they started limiting him to a couple cookies per day. Negro happily accepted these terms.
Negro has now been ‘buying’ cookies for years. The dog never tires of the delicious cookies, and the staff is happy to provide him with his favorite treats.
In April 2018, one of the teachers at Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare shared a Facebook post about Negro. The post quickly went viral—people around the world were amazed at Negro’s cleverness.
“When you first see it, you almost want to cry,” Bernal said. “He’s found a way to make himself understood. He’s very intelligent.”
Negro is a clever pup who has come up with a creative way to get his favorite treats. This good boy is as smart as can be!
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