Dog Ideosynchrasies.

[CAVHUNT]

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?

 

[Sandy25]

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 .

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.......

 

[finnbear270]

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 .

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.......

That is an extremely long lived Shrew

 

[Koenig]

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.

 

[Sandy25]

That is an extremely long lived Shrew

Unfortunately for the dog, the shrew died years ago - he is still convinced it is there though

 

[bullet chucker]

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.

 

[Jh1986]

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.

 

[Shabz]

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.

 

[Mungo]

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.

 

[scoby270]

My Spaniel used to hate being in cars or any sort of vehicle, now he's quite old he's a proper passenger princess. Doesn't get off the Gator at the golf club when doing pest control unless he needs a wee or poo.

 

[hendrix's rifle]

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.

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...

 

[Rhodesianjess]

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.

 

[Sika98k]

Stands at the peg with me !