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Dog Idiosyncrasies

I thought this might be an interesting/funny topic. I'll kick it off with two.

Right from when I got her my current Cavie has slept with me and every night about 9PM she she is on the bed watching me turn the blankets down and fluff the pillow. Nowadays early evenings she disappears from the lounge room on a mission. She gets on the bed and diligently/enthusiastically digs at the blankets "turning them down" except she digs everything out down to the bare mattress and into a messy heap. She also pummels the pillow and then turfs it on to the floor. It's a hoot to sneak up to the door way and watch her antics.

I once purchased an older, untrained Weimaraner because I saw huge potential in her. I'd put her on a 'sit and stay' and walk out in front of her for training her to respond to my left and right commands. If she didn't want to co-operate she would simply shut her eyes and refuse to open them...her theory being if she can't see me then she doesn't have to obey me. At other times she would simply turn around so again she couldn't see me so there was no no need to obey nor was there any disobedience. She would then very slowly slightly turn her head to se if I was still there and the instant she glimpsed me she'd snap her head back around to where I wasn't visible. Frustrating but very funny.

So what idiosyncrasies does your dog have/do?
 
Our sprocker spaniel has always been fascinated by the shrew that lives behind out skirting board in the lounge. Most evenings he will crawl behind the sofa and spend a happy evening licking the small hole in the skirting from where it pops out. If he is unsuccessful (which he always is), he will return and stare at you for the rest of the evening until you go and tell him to hunt it again.
He has been doing this for 11 years :rofl:.

Now, any time you mention a ward with "sh" in, he will go tearing down the back of the sofa to lick the skirting board for another happy half hour.

Very strange animal.......
 
Sandy25 said:
Our sprocker spaniel has always been fascinated by the shrew that lives behind out skirting board in the lounge. Most evenings he will crawl behind the sofa and spend a happy evening licking the small hole in the skirting from where it pops out. If he is unsuccessful (which he always is), he will return and stare at you for the rest of the evening until you go and tell him to hunt it again.
He has been doing this for 11 years :rofl:.

Now, any time you mention a ward with "sh" in, he will go tearing down the back of the sofa to lick the skirting board for another happy half hour.

Very strange animal.......
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That is an extremely long lived Shrew😆
 
My very good natured Golden Retriever Girl (6) won’t get in or out of the car: has to be lifted which is great when she’s been wallowing in mud on the game shoot. No treat or encouragement works. She just goes like a Just Stop Oil protester😂😂😂.

Other than that she’s a great all round dog.
 
Mrs BC does the feeding of our two Cockers the youngest coming up three sleeps in a cage arrangement, and is also fed in there, I have noticed when breakfast is coming he will dive into the cage to wait his feed then as it is being poured into his bowl
(dry food) he will give one loud bark as if to say thank you. does'nt bark at any other time unless playing with memtor.

BC.
 
Our Golden Retriever was petrified of the Nest smoke alarm. It would announce that there was "smoke detected in the kitchen" and he was so petrified of the voice that he now has extended that fear to a fear of cooking.

We have since replaced the nest alarms but now any whiff of cooking and he's off.

He'll either go and hide in the downstairs toilet (which I'll have to open for him), or go and sit in the back alley by the gate.

Once the cooking is done though, it's back to typical GR behaviour of being closer than your shadow, in the hopes of a crumb falling.

He also wees like a girl. Never cocked a leg.
 
My first GWP, if tied up outside a shop would chomp through her lead in one bite and just sit there waiting for me. Never moved, just objected to being tied up like a horse.

I also had a Labrador once, that absolutely hated border terriers. Never had a bad experience with them and got along famously with any other breed of dog but hated border terriers with a passion.
 
My GWP has an extensive collection of toys that she keeps hidden in various places around the house and garden.

Whenever someone she knows comes to door, she frantically gallops to get one of the toys, then rather forcefully presents it to the person. She even seems to have specific toys for specific people.

When I guide clients, she obviously has to do her job and find the carcass if/when the beast runs. So we usually get to the dead beast first. In her mind, this means it is my carcass. If the person who actually shot it approaches it (how dare they!), she gets very grumpy and defensive, hunches over it and growls at them.
 
Mungo said:
My GWP has an extensive collection of toys that she keeps hidden in various places around the house and garden.

Whenever someone she knows comes to door, she frantically gallops to get one of the toys, then rather forcefully presents it to the person. She even seems to have specific toys for specific people.

When I guide clients, she obviously has to do her job and find the carcass if/when the beast runs. So we usually get to the dead beast first. In her mind, this means it is my carcass. If the person who actually shot it approaches it (how dare they!), she gets very grumpy and defensive, hunches over it and growls at them.
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My GWP isn't allowed toys. The most recent one being stolen from the vet which he proceeded to try and physically eat after I squared up for the previous op where he ate something he shouldn't have 🙃. By the time the transaction had gone through, he'd had an ear and half of the toys head...
 
I had a black lab bitch years ago that used to play on sympathy. Had her at 8 weeks as usual,took her everywhere, usual stuff. Didn't see her on the rearing field one day and ran over her whilst moving my pickup. Resulting in broken rear leg which the vet pinned, she had a rod outside the leg for a while whilst it healed. Every visitor made a fuss of her, adorable little puppy with poorly leg.
Recovered fully but until the day she passed,if you shouted at or told her off, she'd limp for a while, exactly as she did as a pup.
Canny old girl remembered and played on it.
 
CAVHUNT said:
Dog Idiosyncrasies

I thought this might be an interesting/funny topic. I'll kick it off with two.

Right from when I got her my current Cavie has slept with me and every night about 9PM she she is on the bed watching me turn the blankets down and fluff the pillow. Nowadays early evenings she disappears from the lounge room on a mission. She gets on the bed and diligently/enthusiastically digs at the blankets "turning them down" except she digs everything out down to the bare mattress and into a messy heap. She also pummels the pillow and then turfs it on to the floor. It's a hoot to sneak up to the door way and watch her antics.

I once purchased an older, untrained Weimaraner because I saw huge potential in her. I'd put her on a 'sit and stay' and walk out in front of her for training her to respond to my left and right commands. If she didn't want to co-operate she would simply shut her eyes and refuse to open them...her theory being if she can't see me then she doesn't have to obey me. At other times she would simply turn around so again she couldn't see me so there was no no need to obey nor was there any disobedience. She would then very slowly slightly turn her head to se if I was still there and the instant she glimpsed me she'd snap her head back around to where I wasn't visible. Frustrating but very funny.

So what idiosyncrasies does your dog have/do?
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The Cavie 'nesting behaviour is a classic - something I've seen in GSPs and Labs. Frantic bed-making only to sleep comatosed with all 4 legs in the air! The behaviour from the Weimaraner sounds a bit more like an avoidance/appeasement behaviour, I wonder whether you know much about her treatment previous to coming to you?
 
My bitch is only interested in shooting, she’s 11. If I carry the rifle or tools snd take both dogs she’ll wait until a convenient moment and quietly slip away to wait back at the car, it’s clearly too boring for her when she could be lay asleep in the sun. If I carry a gun she will work on and on for hours, and would never dream of leaving.
 
Not mine but a friend's Curly Coat retriever Skeet. Friend in question often used the same rifle case for shotgun or stalking rifle. Skeet knew which was in the closed bag having not actually seen the gun go in. Rifle and he would do a sharp exit, shotgun and you would have to prise him off the bag just in case you left him behind.

My late Cocker used to lie on my gun bag before I'd even put the gun in. A you're not going without me.

Current Springer likes to hide under the recliner while we are eating.
 
My favorite black lab was an escape artist. She stayed in any from of confinement only as long as it suited her. Her other trait was she was steady as a rock, except for raccoons, some deep seated grudge or something. You could call her off, until that raccoon was dead.

This led to a very memorable morning one day. We boated in very early to some flood timber to make sure we got the spot on public land. Unbeknownst to us, the tiny island and tree we tied up to had a raccoon, that scurried up the tree at our approach. Once tied up, we all hunkered down and tried to nap for the 3 ours before shooting light. Somewhere in that quiet time the reaction decided to shimmy down the tree and make a break for it. This resulted in a full on dog fight within the confines of the boat, in the dark. Very memorable, and sort of terrifying….

My current BLF is channeling her predecessors escapist abilities .
 
Hi Steve.243

The Cavie 'nestingbehaviour is a classic - something I've seen in GSPs and Labs.Frantic bed-making only to sleep comatosed with all 4 legs in theair!

Before I got my currentCav – a tri-colour - I had a Blenheim, got him by accident as arescue dog at 3 years of age. He never “dug” on the bed, couch or anywhere else so the behaviour was new to me. I took him along with me and a Wei on hunting outings and it quickly became obvious that he was a natural Hunt/Point/Trackdog on sambar/wild dogs/foxes so that is how he spent the next 11years of his life. His passing just about broke me.

The behaviour fromthe Weimaraner sounds a bit more like an avoidance/appeasementbehaviour, I wonder whether you know much about her treatmentprevious to coming to you?

By closing her eyes orturning around she was simply justifying to herself that if she can'tsee me then I wasn't there so there was no compulsion to do anything. If I made noises such as whistling, stamping my foot, banging on a fence etc there was zero reaction from her. The simple cure on the day was to do a couple of minutes of 'fast pace figure of eights' on the lead heeling' – this reinforced my authority and her compliance – and then resume the left/ right training but at a very closedistance to her where my autho rity was strongest.

Her background. As a pup she was sold by the breeder into a show home but it didn't work out for them. She was returned because she wouldn't settle down when out, had a strong, independent personality, was constantly wanting to check out every smell in the air or on the ground so was for them uncontrollable. The instant I saw her belting around at the breedersyard working her nose I saw a dog which had a brain and just waned to work/hunt. She was a powerful, stocky sort of Wei and when I got her back home with me she quickly earned her nickname of 'the pocketbattleship'.

She went on to excel inthe Obedience Ring with all first places and more than fulfilled herrole as a HPR Tracking dog on foxes, rabbits, ducks, sambar deer and wild dogs. She also became the foundation stone of my kennel.
 
Our rehomed Lab Rua - allegedly Gaelic for Red but more likely an abbreviation of “Rua”nation ate everything in sight or smell when first she arrived including Lady FB’s new leather boots - on Xmas morning. Do you know what Christmas Day including dinner in total silence is like children? Ol Foxy does…
My socks were /are her favourite so lots of half pairs now adorn my drawer, yes I know but… Lady FB’s bras have fallen occasional victim too - strangely she doesn’t keep the one-boobed remains…
All this is as nothing however compared to her detestation of hard floors - we have had to put a rug “starting gate” in the kitchen as a sort of halfway island which also serves as Hussain Bolt-like starting blocks for her eventual sprint for the conservatory - invariably after much girlie whining.
Then there is her paranoia about the car, any car. Shivering, shaking, hyperventilating, singing, you name it - have to have her sedated for our trips to Perthshire. Then there is the hose, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher…..
Still, she is adorable, kinda….
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