(UPI) — A Missouri dog trainer’s clever canine earned a Guinness World Record for her ability to manipulate clothes pins with her mouth.
Java, a 5-year-old black Labrador belonging to Lisa Rickards, 46, earned the record for the most clothes pegs put on a washing line by a dog in one minute.
Rickards and Java took on the challenge March 21 in Kansas City and the dexterous dog managed to put eight clothes pins on the line in the allotted time.
Rickards said Java first came into her life as a trainee service dog for Canine Companions.
“For the first 18 months of Java’s life, my job was to raise and socialize her with the goal of preparing her to become a service dog,” Rickards told Guinness World Records. “She went on to advanced training, but ultimately she was determined not to be a good fit for the program. I was then incredibly fortunate to be able to adopt her back as my pet.”
The duo ended up pivoting their training to canine sports and tricks.
“I joke that Java is fully caffeinated and absolutely lives up to her name. She has an enormous amount of enthusiasm for life and, more importantly, she genuinely loves learning. She is especially good at what I think of as ‘social learning’ — watching another dog or person do something and then figuring out how to do it herself,” Rickards said.
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