Samantha James wrote:
I don't think so. Dogs are smart but I'm not sure they have the planning skills to pull off a fake injury in a consistent manner. I could be wrong, though.


I don't think they so much know how to plan and act out an illness so much as know which triggers get them attention. If she hurt her foot before and everyone fawned over her she may have connected "foot in air=human fawning"

Or it could be a physical problem. You really cannot tell and I wouldn't chance it.