Fred the Bulldozer

Okay, so the author did in fact own a dumb dog. Fred was very loyal and loving but he was not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. The author had just put in a brand new electric fence to keep the pig from getting into the garden and eating everything. After a quick brush up against the fence with the pig's ear, the pig decided that it no longer had any desire to go into the garden. Fred on the other hand, was not as smart. He ran into the fence with his head and rapidly decided that the fence was beyond doubt the enemy. Fred was known to be persistent and never gave up on any task, including defeating the fence. Fred continued to jump at the fence and bite it. The fur was sticking up everywhere and Fred's eyes were only showing the whites but eventually Fred snapped the wire and defeated the fence. Any other normal dog would not have gone through all that, but Fred was no normal dog. It looks like not all of Gary Paulsen's dogs were geniuses.