Does your dog have house hold duties?

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Jake is in charge of telling the village if Izzy even thinks of doing something naughty. He barks if she tries to dig up cat poop, if she chases the cats and if she tries to get onto the table :D

But the jobs he takes most seriously are yoghurt pot/lid cleaner and quality control officer :rolleyes::D
 
My rotti mouth hovers the floors;) and grasses any dog up that is doing something wrong, usually trying to nick cat food or trying to jump on benches/raid bins for food (whippets):rolleyes: she will bark out loud.

Bud the pointer is the household fly catcher:D

The whippets clean the cat litter trays often:rolleyes:
 
mine closes doors.... closes the washer.. closes draws etc....

she will also fetch me my shoes when she wants to go out and my wellies to

(im not kidding either ! lol)

shes a smart one.... i always said she would have been a cracking assistant dog :D
 
yeah, looking after my bed
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looking after my sons bed
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looking after my web site
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Mine has been taught to bark when someone knocks at the door as I don't always hear it. He also hoovers up all dropped food, and is responsible for keeping the spiders and flies at bay. At the yard he is the ratcatcher.

ETA: CNM I love your dobe she's gorgeous!
 
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Visual safety inspector of anything I'm eating, apparently for my own good

Occasionally mobile hot water bottle

Protector of the holy area also known as 'the sofa'
 
Hot water bottle, vacuum, quality control officer for carrots, glove holder, rabbit/magpie chaser (will leave wee birds be)

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Sanolly said:
Mine has been taught to bark when someone knocks at the door as I don't always hear it. He also hoovers up all dropped food, and is responsible for keeping the spiders and flies at bay. At the yard he is the ratcatcher.

ETA: CNM I love your dobe she's gorgeous!
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thanks she is am angel.
She is also the local cat police
noise abatement officer, she shouts at the other dogs in the area to shut up if they are noisy.
At the yard yesterday, i had a horse/fence problem and she ran and whined at my friend to tell her something was up, just like lassie :D
 
paisley said:
Visual safety inspector of anything I'm eating, apparently for my own good

Occasionally mobile hot water bottle

Protector of the holy area also known as 'the sofa'
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Pretty much sums up Harley too!

Although the 1st one I can usually make him do from his bed, and he's ALWAYS up for the 2nd one.

His best trait though is that he knows who should and should not be up the yard. It is fairly off the beaten track and if anyone strange appears he barks at them. He is all voice, but at least I then know there is someone there! It make me feel much more confident up there, esp in the dark!
 
Resident hoover, resident baby sitter, a Hot water bottle, sofa cushion and protects the garden from any stray cats. She is also a good vermin catcher and travelling head companion. She takes her role of looking after visitors very well giving them the best possible cuddle if they sit down on the sofa but best of all she will tell me who is a nice person and who is not.
I think she does her job very well!!
 
Our labs are official feed bucket cleaners at the stables. Also casserole dishes and pans in the house. Hoovering at meal times. Scrap disposal agents.

They like to lead the horses around given a chance, but tend to drag them off course.

One has taken up the role of gardener. We couldn't understand who or what was pulling up daffodil and tulip bulbs that had just started to sprout, until we discovered choc lab with one sticking out of her mouth like Ermintrude from Magic roundabout.

When the fire is lit they turn into rugs on the floor in front of it, and double up as foot rests.

Little lab does a pretty good trumpet voluntary with his hollow bone outside our bedroom door every morning when the alarm clock goes off. When we open the door he parades round "speaking" while displaying the socks that my husband didn't put in the laundry bin! He also gathers up any stray shoes and stores them in his basket for us.

If teenage stepson doesn't get up, they are very good at persuading him by bouncing on his bed both at once.
 
Apparently one day, burglars ransacked the lounge. Fortunately Alfie was there, to bravely defend the sofa from being stolen!
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Mobile hot water bottle, staving off his food provider's occasional bursts of hypothermia.:D

Meeter and greeter ('Come in! Wasn't expecting you! Have you had the tour? This is the sofa this is the floor this is the sofa this is the floor did I mention I can bounce level with your head this is the sofa this is the floor this is my toy no you can't actually have it...'):rolleyes:

Kitchen floor cleaner.:eek:

Excellent nurse when the need arises.:)

Personal trainer.;)

Interior designer if left in the house wet and unsupervised:mad:
 
Dakota has recently decided to start emptying some of the rubbish bin for us. This is particularly handy as we are only allowed to put out one bag of non-recycling rubbish every week before we have to pay extra so I know he's just doing it to help us keep it under control bless him.

They are all deputised as hot water bottles and vacuums as well as hand washers and wildlife control officers.
 
ours replace the prewash on the dishwasher, replace the doorbell, hoover the kitchen. tell off loose horses on the yard until an owner appears with a head collar. Official guard of honour to all the horses being turned out providing escort duty to the field. Cat squashing, rat catching, carrot tasting. Chief bed warmers. Travel hotwater bottles for Badminton. and they both have their own specialities.
 
Evie tells me if anyone is at our gate, or the neighbours :o She also clears the garden of rabbits and birds, and she and Buffy are chief gardeners, or think they are, they just dig the holes in the hope I might plant something in them. They also take their poo picking duties very seriously when they are in the horses field. :( When my children were babies my dogs at the time were in charge of keeping their faces clean of food (I know, disgustingly unhealthy but the kids survived).:D
 
Stan pre-washes dishes for the dishwasher,cleans up the cat food the cats have dropped on the floor, answers the door (loudly), and wakes up my lazy OH on command ;) :) He also manages to deal effectively with the local hooligan cat - we have had years of that cat beating up our cats, trying to get in our house (it did get in once and sprayed in our living room - we had to take the carpet up, scrub the concrete underneath, and replace it all with laminate flooring) - horrible cat, but hardly seen anything of it since Stan decided that it's not allowed in our garden!
At the yard he decides to be guard dog, helps with mucking out (by eating the poo), and does quality control on Murphy's dinner.

The yard dog decided to help me fetch my pony in a few weeks ago, I was having trouble getting my pony out of the field whilst keeping his rather pushy little pony friend in - yard dog charged down to the field, herded little pony friend back, and held him there until I had got Murphy out of the field :)
 
My 3 operate a shift/flexi time system. Between them they cover all bed warming duties, sofa sitting, guarding the perimeter fence against any cat that isnt theirs, clearing any food items from any area which may encourage mice into the house dont you know!, tidying stray gloves, socks, pants from anywhere they may have been dropped. The old boy is an excellent nursemaid, the two young springers are good entertainment (who needs a telly) and oddly enough all three are brilliant food tasters/quality control officers! Now just imagine if I had to pay someone to do all that for me, cheap at half the price I say!!
 
The poodle removes the post from the letter slot in the door, and then promptly puts it down again, full of tooth holes. Always handy when you don't really want to know how much the heating oil bill is...He is also very useful for dusting when I have allowed his tail to grow long.

The border terrier is the WATCH dog....not so much watching the burglers but watching the CLOCK. You can literally set your watch by him. He knows what time is breakfast. He certainly knows what time is dinner. Usually starts asking for either exactly 2 minutes before.

THe minpin is good for ensuring that I don't let the hallways become too cluttered (she's blind, so must make sure that I don't obstruct her pathways too much).
 
Dylan- official carrot eater, charcoal eater no burnt logs left in our fire, guinea pig watcher and slipper nicker but if you call him he comes over with them which is handy. he also picks up dropped knickers from when o have done a wash.

Will- sofa warmer, defender, foot warmer

Teal- helps Dylan with the charcoal logs, teaches Dylan the ropes....this is the hole in the hedge, this is how you kill the kitchen roll. And yesterday helped me with what to put on the shopping list....cheese, jam and eggs as he ate them!


But they are officially the worst guard dogs known to man, friends came over, knocked on the window all three of the dogs opened their eyes, gave out a massive humph that woke me up Nd went back to sleep. I can open my front door walk in and then they wake up and say hi! !
 
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Meeter and greeter ('Come in! Wasn't expecting you! Have you had the tour? This is the sofa this is the floor this is the sofa this is the floor did I mention I can bounce level with your head this is the sofa this is the floor this is my toy no you can't actually have it...'):rolleyes:

Yes, this is my dog's chief duty too. Also decorating the porch, entertaining the children and warming our feet.
 
MillieSadie said:
Meeter and greeter ('Come in! Wasn't expecting you! Have you had the tour? This is the sofa this is the floor this is the sofa this is the floor did I mention I can bounce level with your head this is the sofa this is the floor this is my toy no you can't actually have it...'):rolleyes:
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I love it! I can hear my Dougal saying those exact words too!
 
All mine have brought in wood in varying sizes very useful as I have 2 woodburners but cant get them to get the wheelbarrow & fill it.

Diesel would make a great hearing dog as when people come up the drive he comes and gets me to take to the window. He also does this if Im hoovering and the phone rings he comes and gets my attention. Darcy is a proper dog and just barks.
 
Molly has a variety of roles.....
- she provides lovely foot spa services if you take your socks off in the evening
- mentor to feral kitty. Kitty will let me stroke her if the dog is with her (kitty is besotted with pooch) and I can't get near her without the dog
- counselling & wellbeing services... Cuddles at bed time, great listener, and always there
- cat teller offer... When the cats claw furniture/carpets I no longer have to shout (don't have to say or do anything) She gallops off and sorts them out, she's very efficient at this
- she has also been known to clean up cat sick ahead of disinfectant ... Yuck
- she's also personal trainer to my my parents Bull Mastiff. He will mooch about at a snails pace when he's walked alone. She gets him fired up and hooning around. My parents love it when she visits.
She's such a clever girly
 
Skye cleans the frying pan when left on the hob.
Makes sure we haven't thrown anything edable away in the bin.
Clears away anything edable left on the work surfaces.
Will clean plates etc. when left anywhere in reach, which means just about anywhere!!!
 
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