Maybe your dog is paranoid? When the cat survives a nibble, he knows it's safe to eat! ha ha

I taught my cat how to roll over. Does that count? Not sure if that's a good example of a stupid pet trick or a stupid owner trick. ha ha

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.