My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he’s smart in pretty stupid ways.
One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That’s it, just sit there.
Now, he’s a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I’m sure there’s other times where he just gave up and we didn’t notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.
That and he likes to check if there’s anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles…