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Stupid Things Your Dog Does... (1 Viewer)

Stupid - tries to sleep in my spot at night only to be moved to the end of the bed in 1.5 nanoseconds like tonight is the night I give up my pillow.......... guess I can't blame him for trying. He is old and his eyesight is not great - it if is dark and he is not sure what something is, I have watched him successfully stalk and take down a random lawn or Christmas decoration and one time a plastic bag that the garbage men must have let loose by accident....

 
One of our dogs is part Chihuahua and gets the "Chihuahua shakes" for absolutely no reason..

Thunder.. fine.. Fireworks.. fine..
Turn on a Booklight at night to read... shake like the world is coming to an end.

The other one in this picture is about 7 months old and for whatever reason has decided that bringing in poop from the backyard and eating it in front of us is good entertainment.. :yucky:    

 
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snogger said:
One of our dogs is part Chihuahua and gets the "Chihuahua shakes" for absolutely no reason..

Thunder.. fine.. Fireworks.. fine..
Turn on a Booklight at night to read... shake like the world is coming to an end.

The other one in this picture is about 7 months old and for whatever reason has decided that bringing in poop from the backyard and eating it in front of us is good entertainment.. :yucky:    
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Our dog of 13 years passed away two weeks ago.

Little things keep happening during the day that remind me of her.  Gave me the idea for the thread so we could celebrate them.

Your post is another one.  

When it was windy out side, she would shake uncontrollably.  Was the strangest thing ever.  Afraid of the wind. 

 
really the only dumb thing she does is eat sticks like they're some sort of gourmet dish. big, small.. twigs.. whole branches.  she spends most of her time outside sniffing the lawn for sticks to eat.

vet says her breed has an iron constitution so it's not really a big deal unless she doesn't break them down enough, then it's going to hurt coming out.  and it's pretty obvious when she didn't do a good enough job chewing.  she mopes around the house likes she lost her best friend until she can pass her mistake.

 
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ChiefD said:
I have a Lab that doesn't swim and hates water. 
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My beagle/border collie mix is the same way. She’s also paranoid and thinks the newspaper delivery person is out to get her on walks even if there are no cars around whatsoever. 
 

ETA: if she sees something in the gutter like a bag or trash, she’ll stop and freak out like “that’s not normal”

 
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Everything, my dog is very dumb. She forgets how to use stairs. Eventually she will remember, but there could be a week where she just chirps at me to carry her up the stairs.

 
Our Mexico rescue can have a fly land on her ### now and will be biting, scratching, obsessing over it for the next week at least. 

I'm sure something got her at some point (she had fleas and ticks at the shelter before we got her) but it's like an every ten seconds thing, she has to check on the spot the bug was days ago. 

 
mr. furley said:
really the only dumb thing she does is eat sticks like they're some sort of gourmet dish. big, small.. twigs.. whole branches.  she spends most of her time outside sniffing the lawn for sticks to eat.

vet says her breed has an iron constitution so it's not really a big deal unless she doesn't break them down enough, then it's going to hurt coming out.  and it's pretty obvious when she didn't got a good enough job chewing.  she mopes around the house likes she lost her best friend until she can pass her mistake.
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Both of ours not only chew/eat sticks.. But lately they have been bringing in rocks to chew on them..

At least 20 bones all around the house/yard but hey,  let's chew on rocks :wall:  

 
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Getzlaf15 said:
Our dog of 13 years passed away two weeks ago.

Little things keep happening during the day that remind me of her.  Gave me the idea for the thread so we could celebrate them.

Your post is another one.  

When it was windy out side, she would shake uncontrollably.  Was the strangest thing ever.  Afraid of the wind. 
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Lost my lab of 12 years two and a half years ago. He would greet everyone with a big smile by baring all his teeth while wagging his tail, doing a play bow and snorting. You could tell the people who weren't used to dogs because they would think he was about to bite them. Still cracks me up thinking about some of the reactions he got from it.

 
today i took her for a ride to get a sandwich at the drive thru sandwich shop.

guy at the window had a skeleton mask on.  as soon as she got a glimpse at him she started snarling and growling. she never, ever, ever does it. this might be the first time i can recall seeing it.

guy dips back in the window, comes out without the mask on.. no growling.

we pull up to the window... mask on... cue snarling. he produces two scooby snacks and suddenly this guy is her best friend in the entire world.

so if you ever want to break in, just give my dog a wafer.

 
ChiefD said:
I have a Lab that doesn't swim and hates water. 
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I had a German Shorthaired Pointer that was the same way.  She had webbed feet since that breed is supposed to swim and retrieve.  She was otherwise completely fearless to the point of being stupid, but absolutely hated the rain and the sprinkler and any pool or a bath...

 
Another thing my GSP used to do - when we would go out to dinner or something we would sometimes get home to find her standing on the kitchen table.  I have no idea why she would want to climb up there in the first place.  She would climb on a chair and then to the table, but would be unable to get down.  IIRC she would only do this when we went out as a family for the night.  I don't remember ever coming home from school to find her on the table, even though we would all be out of the house during the day too.

 
My jack russell mix is deathly afraid of the toaster.  And we've replaced the "scary" one with a new, much quieter one 5 years ago.  All I have to do is open the cabinet where the loaf bread is and he's gone.  Our other dog used to go with him (4 years ago) but realized she'll get a bite of toast so she sticks around.  Doesn't bother her at all but if he sees me just open the cupboard... he flees.

He flees down the hall in our house and now he has a problem of getting stuck there.  For the last couple of years he'd go down there and just whine until someone goes back there and helps him back into the living room. 

There's something about the threshold of where the floor of the hall meets the floor of the living room.  Guy has issues.  He just can't cross back over unless he is escorted by one of us. 

 
Our terrier mix is now 14, still acts like a puppy most of the time but sleeps more. 

We walk him about 1.5 miles/day.  He annoys the crap out of my wife and I everyday until he gets his walk.  This WFH stuff is making him very spoiled.  

He gets scared and shakes at loud noises and thunderstorms and iPhone 'dings'.  The 'dings' can even be on TV and he'll shake for 30 mins.  Ugh.

He doesn't do a lot of stupid things, but he got a bath last weekend and as of yesterday he had grass stains and mulberry stains on him from the backyard.

 
Daisy watches more TV than a human.  She even knows some commercials, like the bounty paper towel one where the bulldog eats the wonton as it slides off the table.  She starts barking before the dog is even shown.  My wife has to clean the screen daily.  I put it on the Puppy Bowl and she scratched the hell out of it.

 
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Daisy watches more TV than a human.  She even knows some commercials, like the bounty paper towel one where the bulldog eats the wonton as it slides off the table.  She starts barking before the dog is even shown.  My wife has to clean the screen daily.  I put it on the Puppy Bowl and she scratched the hell out of it.
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If I scroll through my DVR and my doodle happens to see the picture for A Dog’s Purpose, he goes nuts.   Then I’ll tell him to “sit and watch” and he’ll jump on the couch and watch as long as I do. 

 
Had a dog growing up that was generally scared of adult men, but absolutely terrified of adult men wearing a suit and tie.

Dad would come home from the office wearing his suit, she hid behind the couch and barked at him, tail wagging the whole time.  He'd go upstairs, change into sweats, and she'd jump all over him.  Somehow, as I grew up, it didn't translate; she wasn't scared of me, even as an adult, even wearing a suit and tie.

She was a rescue.  We always assumed that she had once jumped on "the man of the house" and he knocked her across the room for dirtying his suit?

 
My Boston Terrier will try to hide and save any bones he gets by burying them with air.  He drops the bone in a corner, backs up a step or two, then noses the air over it for at least 30 seconds.  Then he'll get really frustrated when I walk over and grab it, like "How the heck did you find my bone so fast."

My old GSP (RIP Buck) loved the water and would obsessively stack rocks from the bottom.  If you threw a big rock into the stream, he would dive down for it, sniff it out, then grab it and take it to the bank.  Rinse and repeat till you had a giant pile of rocks.

We now have a 3-month old Spinone puppy.  So far he seems relatively smart and non-crazy, but who knows what the future holds.

 
We have a cockapoo 

He goes through periods where there's a line in the kitchen that he will not cross. Refuses to walk pass this line. Instead, he sits down and barks/cries. Same line every time. 

I call it "The Invisible Line of Death." Every time he gets stuck, I have to go over there and pick him up and bring him across "The Invisible Line of Death." Then all peace is restored. 

 
huthut said:
Next you will say it does not like food to further question if it is really a Lab...
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Oh, it likes food. But we can only feed her a certain diet. Costs us about a billion dollars a month.

If she eats scrap food she will crap all over the house. Its like one of those roombas that finds a turd and drags it all over the place.

To be fair, this dog was a rescue from what we believe was a Lab puppy mill. I think she was raised as a hunting dog, and they threw her in the water way too early and also shot a gun way too early, because she is incredibly gun shy.

On top of that they tried to breed her way too young from what we understand. 

Despite all of this, she is the best dog I've ever had. She is so chill. We got her at a year old and we've never had to put up a fence. Won't run away. She only poops in her yard. She will literally walk around the boundaries and just poop in our yard. Craziest thing I've ever seen. She never had the typical Lab looniness.

When I got her I was working a Home and Garden show for an HVAC company here in KC. The rescue group was there trying to get these dogs adopted. In the midst of all the chaos of people in there, tons of kids looking at the dogs..etc...this dog just sat there all chill - not disturbed by any of it. That's how I've always chosen my dogs from the pound or rescue groups.

Pick the one that is relaxed in those environments and you end up with a winner. We won the lottery with this one. Alas, she is about 12 now and nearing the end...but she is still going strong but a little slow in her movements. 

 
and we are off.. For no reason what so ever, our Chihuahua mutt is in a all out shake mood today..

Will run outside and just sit next to her dog door... can get her to come in for a few seconds and back out she goes shaking on the step.... maddening...   :wall:  

 
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My mutt is a "submissive pee'er."  That means she will pee for a multitude of reasons.  Someone comes to the house she knows (my stepdaughter stops by the visit, my son's girlfriend), she pees.  She thinks someone is mad at her, she pees.  Bites me on accident when we are playing, she pees.  I'm able to manage it most of the time, and it really is only a problem on the carpet, but it sure is annoying.

 
Rich Conway said:
Had a dog growing up that was generally scared of adult men, but absolutely terrified of adult men wearing a suit and tie.

Dad would come home from the office wearing his suit, she hid behind the couch and barked at him, tail wagging the whole time.  He'd go upstairs, change into sweats, and she'd jump all over him.  Somehow, as I grew up, it didn't translate; she wasn't scared of me, even as an adult, even wearing a suit and tie.

She was a rescue.  We always assumed that she had once jumped on "the man of the house" and he knocked her across the room for dirtying his suit?
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Sounds like the dog is pretty sharp. I'm terrified of adult men in suits and ties.

 
Our 14yr old yellow lab (RIP) used to eat bark straight off the tree.  Every tree in our back yard had a ring around it at his head height where he just would pick the bark clean off the tree.  He was a stick eater in his younger years and transitioned to fresh bark as he got older.

 
I used to have a Westie that was a PITA. It’s typical of the breed, but he had a big ole chip on his shoulder. He would eat every stick in sight and usually have issues passing them. Nothing like being a doggy proctologist for a dog who is pretty smug about it. 

 
Ned said:
Our 14yr old yellow lab (RIP) used to eat bark straight off the tree.  Every tree in our back yard had a ring around it at his head height where he just would pick the bark clean off the tree.  He was a stick eater in his younger years and transitioned to fresh bark as he got older.
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Maybe he needed fuel for his bark. 

 
My dogs don't like walking on grass, either of them. If I take them to a park, where there's 1% sidewalk and 99% grass, anytime I try to take them on the grass they pull towards the sidewalk.

We also have a runner (like a rug) going down the hallway with a little of the tile floor on either side, so the rug is not taking up the entire width. They don't walk on the runner - they tiptoe across the tile on either side of the runner instead, like a tightrope.

The girl dog takes anywhere from 4-10 food nuggets from the bowl at a time, then carries them somewhere else like the living room if I'm there, and drops them out of her mouth where she eats them 1 by 1. I counted once and she made 16 round-trips during one meal.

I could actually go on for hours about the weird stuff they do. I'm not sure what happened.

 
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The girl dog takes anywhere from 4-10 food nuggets from the bowl at a time, then carries them somewhere else like the living room if I'm there, and drops them out of her mouth where she eats them 1 by 1. I counted once and she made 16 round-trips during one meal.
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My dog does this eating thing as well, unless he's really hungry.  If he's really hungry he just stands there and chows down.  

Oh, and we free feed, so there's always food for the dog.  Lately, once he's done eating he lets us know his bowl is empty and will pester us until we give him food.  He won't eat it at that time but will stop pestering us.  It's like he's worried if there's not actually food in his bowl at all times.  

 
Poke_4_Life said:
My dog does this eating thing as well, unless he's really hungry.  If he's really hungry he just stands there and chows down.  

Oh, and we free feed, so there's always food for the dog.  Lately, once he's done eating he lets us know his bowl is empty and will pester us until we give him food.  He won't eat it at that time but will stop pestering us.  It's like he's worried if there's not actually food in his bowl at all times.  
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She does chow down sometimes, true.

We free feed, too. We have a bowl in the kitchen which is behind the living room, one in the hallway, one in the office. They will only eat from the one where we are, so if one dog is eating, the other just stands there behind him/her waiting as if there aren't two other bowls in the house.

 
I have to add to my post earlier......... the cat - almost as big as the 25 pound rat terrier - is poly dactyl  - is a beast of a cat - just big boned and solid. Anyway, the cat will wait for the dog to come by and then swat at him and run. Of course, the dog chases him and the cat runs to my wife and meows like "Help me!". My wife always scolds the dog. I have told her countless times... UM, the cat picked that and tricked you. I am not sure she believes me. I have to record that one of these days.

The other bizarre thing my dog does..... will chase a tennis ball inside the house and play fetch etc. just like a normal dog.  Go outside, throw a ball, he will look at you like you are dumb. BUT, go outside and throw a snowball down the driveway or throw them in the yard... he will chase them, bring them back and eventually eat them for hours. You have to end the game before he gets too cold cause he will eat snow to the point he is shivering..... and he still wants to play. ( We live in NE ohio so there is plenty of snow) - I have gotten to the point of freezing snowballs at the end of the winter and throwing them for him randomly when it is not remotely winter time just because he has such a blast chasing them bringing them back, eating part of it and begging you to throw it again!

 
Getzlaf15 said:
Our dog of 13 years passed away two weeks ago.

Little things keep happening during the day that remind me of her.  Gave me the idea for the thread so we could celebrate them.

Your post is another one.  

When it was windy out side, she would shake uncontrollably.  Was the strangest thing ever.  Afraid of the wind. 
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RIP
My almost 15 year old black lab passed away on Feb 16th...which also happened to be my birthday. 

 
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We stumbled upon Rey's predilection for crushed ice. She loves the stuff, saves us a bunch of money on treats.

 
hagmania said:
We stumbled upon Rey's predilection for crushed ice. She loves the stuff, saves us a bunch of money on treats.
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If we had crushed or cubed spill out of the fridge dispenser onto the floor, our dog would race to eat it all up.  And then would puke her guts out 2 minutes later.  I guess it was like stomach freeze.

 
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