I see this a lot on youtube. Dogs and cats pretending to be crippled or hard to walk begging for food. Once they get it, they take off. Usually to their babies they have hidden away from people. There are a couple I have watched where a dog was watching people handing the shop keepers money and in return they get food. So, the dogs pick up leaves and other things to bring it to the shop keepers to pay for some food. Of course they usually do. Who said, animals can't think and don't have feelings? Just remember when GOD opened (not spoke through) the donkey that Balaam was beating.