that use pedestrian crossings

Nice read - makes sense

Alas, however, none of my dogs ever came close to such skills. Well, I did have a dog who could open doors and drawers. That was related to her obsession with food, as she had been a stray, and, I suppose, had been starving. Still, probably the same process.

Very few were pets

Or do you mean they were rural working dogs?

Or am I completely confused. Yeah, I'm confused.

They just did what they saw others doing although I don't know how given that some folks cross the road anywhere they wanted and assume that traffic will stop. The theory is that all are owned and early in life they would be taken to some grass patch early in the morning and picked up at night - eventually they know their way home. I have seen these goats crossing. The dogs would walk with their owners for the days hustle and return home with them. They are not petted and feted, but they have owners who love and take care of them. They know the streets and are street smart.
I love to see it

I suspect that similar to what happened in BA.

http://www.read.gov/aesop/004.html

The Æsop for Children

The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse

A Town Mouse once visited a relative who lived in the country. For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink. The Town Mouse ate very sparingly, nibbling a little of this and a little of that, and by her manner making it very plain that she ate the simple food only to be polite.

After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened. They then went to bed in a cozy nest in the hedgerow and slept in quiet and comfort until morning. In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her. So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes.

When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet. There were sweetmeats and jellies, pastries, delicious cheeses, indeed, the most tempting foods that a Mouse can imagine. But just as the Country Mouse was about to nibble a dainty bit of pastry, she heard a Cat mew loudly and scratch at the door. In great fear the Mice scurried to a hiding place, where they lay quite still for a long time, hardly daring to breathe. When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog.

The Country Mouse stopped in the Town Mouse's den only long enough to pick up her carpet bag and umbrella.

"You may have luxuries and dainties that I have not," she said as she hurried away, "but I prefer my plain food and simple life in the country with the peace and security that go with it."

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

And, of course, there is a reason I feel most at ease with pack on my back in a Wilderness area.

At least that's what my high school biology teacher taught me.

SMART birds....Be Very Afraid!!!!!

You would thing the crows would rule everything with those talons.

Looking down on the rural birds.

Yes, I am channeling a certain favorite television program of rural '70s elites.