Before you buy your own pet pooch, you keep seeing the perfect dog walking down the street. Normally they're just being adorable, snuggling up to their owners, fetching sticks or performing tricks, that sort of thing.

After you get your own non-so-loyal hound, you quickly realise that most dogs don't intuitively do everything you ask of them and more often than not manage to make a mess where they wag their tails. That's the way it goes, you know? Dogs are just animals, sometimes.

One of the canine family that fits into the perfect pet camp is definitely Grace here, a golden retreiver who's been trained by her owner, YouTuber gotfameseekfortune, to tidy up after herself - and generally make the house look nice.

If you ever suffer from dog envy, prepare to suffer it again. Pretty badly. And to make yourself even more ashamed of your untrained best friend, here's a little video gallery of other dogs performing tricks. Damn it fido, play dead! Play dead, damn you! Oh, just take the treat...

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