They are very smart dogs, and are easy to train.

"Pierre's a very smart dog and understands many words," read one.

He was a smart dog; he would get it.

He is a smart dog, though easily bribed with food.

"You engineered such a smart dog, but why did you make him so small, Levi?"

"He's one of the smartest dogs I've come across, but I got him."

It really hurt me to see them and I found the sight of the smart little dog's disfigurement particularly hard to bear.

"You're a smart dog," I said, to build up her confidence.

"I don't know why we couldn't have gotten a smart dog while we were at it," Boone was saying as he walked into the kitchen.

But it did not look like one of those smart dogs in the movies.