Nero, a stray dog adopted by the staff at the Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare in Colombia, noticed something about the students. First, he noticed that by befriending the students, he could get them to buy him cookies at the local store.
He also noticed the students
were purchasing the treats by handing over money to clerks at the store.
After watching enough of this,
Nero decided to try an exchange for himself.
He picked up a leaf that had fallen from a tree, trotted it to the store
and offered it to a clerk while wagging his tail. The clerk immediately recognized Neo’s
intentions. She gave him a cookie.
Nero soon returned with another
leaf. And another.
He could buy his own cookies.
Nero now “purchases” cookies
every day. He happily pays with leaves. Given his endless supply of leaves, the
store’s staff allow Nero to buy treats only a couple times a day.
NERO (Photo: A
Peña J David)
—Mitchell Hegman
Oops! Typo!
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