There is a new one... a dog that ate itself blind after climbing a ladder. Thanks for that. Unfortunately I don't have any super dog stories for you in return.
As far as personality- Lola packs her food bowl around the house with her reminding you when it is feeding time. If you ignore her first thing in the morning she will go get her bowl and repeatedly drop it at your feet, and if she does forget her bowl you just have to remind her. Fetch your bowl... she will tear around the house and come back with it excited of course. That is as close to begging as she gets.
Like I said she closes doors. If you tell her to kennel she runs into her kennel turns around and noses the wire door inside of the hinge and closes herself in. I didn't teach her that.
There is no question that she is smarter than I am capable of training.