Dog Ideosynchrasies.

[Donkey Basher]

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 old spaniel is approaching 15 & has never cocked his leg.

 

[Spear Chucker]

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?

I have fox reds. I usually give them a frozen deer foot to chew while I am having a stogie on the garden bench. The older one usually finishes first, eyes up No.2, slopes off down the garden and barks like mad at some imaginary intruder. No.2 comes roaring down to investigate, while No. 1 sneaks back and pinches her unfinished deer foot. You snooze, you lose.