Can slinks do gardening if they are a high intelligence breed? I know they have trouble with some things but it sounds like something that could be done with a little assistance.
Depends on what level of gardening you’re talking about!
Slinks have difficulty remembering sequences more than… Let’s say two or three steps in length. I’m sure that if you were facilitating it, the slink could, for example, be taught to dig little holes, pop seeds in, and then cover them up again. Similarly you could teach them to pull up plants that look a specific way, so long as explaining how that plant actually looked was straight-forward and didn’t take much vocab (“slink pull out prickly short brown plant” is something they’d understand. “slink pull out brown plant with long leaves, short stem, and flowers with five petals” would be forgotten and leave them sad and frustrated).
Overall, I think a slink would be a better garden -helper- than an automatous gardener. The attention span of slinks is pretty short - too short for them to have a long-term plan to properly maintain a garden. Lotta’ steps involved with that! I’m sure they’d really enjoy attempting to give their owner a hand, though. <3