Canine consumer

　　A dog walks into a butcher shop with a purse strapp ed around its neck. It walks up to the meat case and ca lmly sits there until it's his turn to be waited on. A man, who was already in the butcher's shop,finished his purchase and noticed the dog.

　　The butcher leaned over the counter and asked the d og what it wanted today. The dog put its paw on the gla ss case in front of the ground beef, and the butcher sa id, "how many pounds?"

　　The dog barked twice, so the butcher made a package of two pounds of ground beef.

　　He then said, anything else?

　　The dog pointed to the pork chops, and the butcher said," how many?"

　　The dog barked four times, and the butcher made up a package of four pork chops.

　　The dog then walked around behind the counter, so t he butcher could get at the purse. The butcher took out the appropriate amount of money and tied two packages o f meat around the dog's neck.

　　The man, who had been watching all of this, decided to follow the dog. It walked up to a house where it beg an to scratch the door to be let in. As the owner opene d the door, the man said to the owner, "That's a really smart dog you have there."

　　The owner said, "H'e's not really all that smart. T his is the second time this week he forgot his key."