How does your dog..

[mattilda]

let you know when they want to go out?
Matty stands looking at you wagging her tail like crazy and flappin her ears around. Hard to miss.
Dexter just looks at you, even if he is in a different room!! If you ignore him he shuffles abit closer til you get the message.
Sage doesn't really ask. She just waits til someone else asks and goes out with them. If nobody elses asks she cries.

 

[Puppy]

Popple - the sounds of the catflap crashing shut behind her

 

[kirstyhen]

If Otto wants something he sits in front of you and stares intently, as soon as you ask him what he wants he rushes to where it is - if he wants fed he goes to the foodbin, if he wants out he'll go to the door etc.
If you ignore him and he is desperate to go out he starts padding up and down the hall, staring at you everytime he passes and goes to the door.
Sometimes I am really freaked out by how well my dog can communicate with humans, the only way he could make things clearer is by actually talking

 

[Irishcobs]

Hallie stands at the door and barks. She also barks to come back in.
Amber stares at you, some times whinging, until you get what she means. She also does this if she wants attention or feeding. She doesn't ask to come back in so we have to remember to let her back in after a few minutes.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Sweep waits until you make him go out

- on the odd occasion he wants to go out he will bark at me

. Max bangs on the back door with his paw.

 

[CorvusCorax]

They're only really in once a week, so they never want to go out.

Me and Mum walk around looking confused saying: "Dog? What dog? Where's the dog? There's no dog in here! I heard there was a very good dog in here but I can't see him/her. Oh, where could they be?" while said dog becomes one with the hearthrug and pretends they are not there. It's hilarious

 

[Patches]

Jasper used to cry (but then Cocker's cry for any reason lol) and jump up on the arms of the chairs, with his front feet, or your knee to let you know. If you asked him "What's up puppy?" he would run to the door.....well he would spin in circles towards the door.

He would bark or scratch the door to come back in.

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Patches - when does your new boy come home?!

 

[CAYLA]

Oh....I can beat all that...our pointer opens the door himself and in the meantime lets the rest in and out......came in from night shift and he had let himself and my old girl out in the garden then they went back to bed, he can also open windows

, not sure if it's a good or bad thing.....he never attemts to open the fromt door, jsut the back door to the garden or the doggy room door to the dog run.........otherwise my dogs are lazy gits and will literally wait aslong as it takes for me to get of my arse and let them out

 

[mattilda]

Ah Cayla I did wonder if you would post on this!! Very handy to have such a useful dog when you have as many as you do!!

Does he close the door after him? Matty can open inside doors but never closes them and for some reason only I will do when it comes to opening outside doors!

 

[FestiveSpirit]

Mine dont let me know - they just wait until I take them out

Flick managed 45 minutes of our walk today before she would go because she was on a lead and she just CANT go on a lead you know...

Although having said that they do both give me an amazing greeting every time I come home, leaping up and down like idiots, I am never sure if that is because they are pleased to see me or they want to go out

I suppose they must be pleased to see me, they do it if I have only been gone 10 minutes

 

[Irishcobs]

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Although having said that they do both give me an amazing greeting every time I come home, leaping up and down like idiots, I am never sure if that is because they are pleased to see me or they want to go out

I suppose they must be pleased to see me, they do it if I have only been gone 10 minutes

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That must be a sight hound thing as ours do the same.

 

[Starbucks]

Mine don't seem to bother! They must have amazing bladders!! If we have a lie in they love in and don't really seem like they can be arsed to get up even when we do!

 

[GinaB]

She stands at the back door and if no-one notices she scratches at it (nails clicking on glass

) and if still nothing, she gives a little woof!

 

[RobinHood]

At home they have a dog flap (well it's actially just a hole in the wall) and I have my dog at uni with me so he's had to adjust to asking to go out. He tends to just stand by the door so you have to be on the ball.

We used to have a foxhound that could open all the doors, both knobs and handles and towards him or away from him. Unfortunatly he could also scale fences so he used to break into all our neighbours' houses and raid their fridges, so bad!

 

[MurphysMinder]

Evie goes back and forth from me to the door, and if I am foolish enough to ignore that she jumps on me. Buffy only goes out when I suggest it, and with her sight problem is not keen on going out after dark at all, I put her on a lead and walk her round the garden then, I think she feels more secure that way. Saffy only in house briefly so has never needed to ask to go out, although having said that she never really settles in the house anyway.

 

[2Greys]

Hector paces, circles by the exits and looks at you. If you ignore/don't realise then he'll usually come over and lay in a sphinx facing towards you with his head between his front paws, sulking. Its strange as he tends to vocalise his desires for everything else, he has us trained well so we know what each different whine means.
Throp will normally go to the exit and whine a bit, but he has a bladder of steel so he doesn't ask very often as Hector will usually want to go before him. Often you have to lift him out of bed in the evening as he won't go out if he feels he doesn't need to go.