speaking on behalf of your dog to get it some attention

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I have noticed this alot lately when I have been dealing with dogs with behavioural issues.

Example lady owners has a very disobedient little dog, he bites her, attacks her feet, scrounges food from her and steals it from her hand, takes not a blind bit of notice of her at all, basically it's a one way relationship, she worships him, he has no respect for her and basically she does not interest him at all.

I have had him here to board and he is very well behaved, I have also been in her company alot lately and this is how she talks

situation
Someone enters her house, they greet her but not the dog at first "aw dudley is aunty sara not taking any notice of you when you are saying hello"
the person then proceeds to make a fuss of him:rolleyes: and he goes wild, jumping up.
"Aw he loves you aunty sara, he wants a cuddley wuddley"
then the whole conversation is based around the dog:rolleyes:, she does this in all instances and I have found this to be a correlation between alot of badly behaved dogs recently, another lady does exactly the same with a little cocker, the cocker has not respect at all.

Both met my dogs the other week and commented on how they would love to have dogs like mine, as in well basically normally behaved, they think (angelic) Im arguing normal, as to be there dogs are highly ill trained, so mine are going to seem angelic:rolleyes:
so the other day one of them said "dudley behaves so well when you are here, he never bites or jumps up at you, I explained thats because I ignore her doggy talk and in turn ignore the dog until he is calm, he then realises no attention will be coming from me:rolleyes: she basically talks right over you and begins to talk about the bloody dog again:rolleyes:

Today, she said
"aw dudley is aunty cayla not saying hello to you today"
1, Im no fecking relation lady, I may look like a dog, but really....we are not related.:rolleyes:
2, Do you want a well behaved dog, or a spolit baby:confused:

She jokingly said, I could swap him for one of your dogs:confused: "that bedda be a friggin joke" I was thinking.

So basically Im observing alot of owners begging for attention on behalf of their dog.

Normal or abnormal:rolleyes
I know it's a pointess rant, but I jsut saw the same thing on cesar:rolleyes:
 
Whilst I adore my dogs they are just that....dogs not small people. They are not angels but are fairly well behaved (sometimes)!! I don't talk on their behalf although, disturbingly, do find myself having one sided conservations with them, the cats and the horses on occasions!!
 
I agree.
While i talk about my dogs like my children in the human world to them they are just that, my dogs.

I know that when they are not treated like dogs then it will result in bad behaviour.
 
Oh I do talk to mine at length, esp my rotti when we are at work:D im currently having a convo with a puppy asking if she want to go for walk, im not getting an answer though:D
But I never find myself saying "oh aunty blahh blahh, regan said can she have a cuddle, can u stroke her, can you give her a biscuit or a bit of your food pleaseeeeeeeeee:rolleyes:" all because they are not paying her any attention:rolleyes:
I think it more so irks me, because the dog is so ill mannered and this behaviour is heightening their already OTT behaviour:(
 
CAYLA said:
Oh I do talk to mine at length, esp my rotti when we are at work:D im currently having a convo with a puppy asking if she want to go for walk, im not getting an answer though:D
But I never find myself saying "oh aunty blahh blahh, regan said can she have a cuddle, can u stroke her, can you give her a biscuit or a bit of your food pleaseeeeeeeeee:rolleyes:" all because they are not paying her any attention:rolleyes:
I think it more so irks me, because the dog is so ill mannered and this behaviour is heightening their already OTT behaviour:(
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Oh i agree i talk to mine but I don't talk for them.
 
I have a confession to make :o OH and I quite often speak for the dog :o :o

However, we only do it because we reckon Otto has Tourettes and it's done in a funny way :D Otto doesn't benefit from it in any way! It started because one of us said 'Otto would you like...(I can't remember what it was, a bath or something)' and the other replied for Otto 'No I f****** don't, alright, now leave me in peace!'
So it's not done in a coo-ing 'Aww, ickle Otty Wotty wants a cuddle wuddle from his Daddy' way :D Honest!

Am I let off???? :o :D :D
 
No. Mine have plenty to say for themselves!!!
I don't say hi to mine or allow other people to say hi until I am ready, bit dictatorial that way unless it is someone like Col who is used to sheps.
I'll take them out in the field and if B is pissing about I'll tell them to turn away from him, not look or speak to him, then pat him when he has stopped jumping.

I know a bitch who is a total witch when she is with her owners - when I take her, if another dog comes near her, she wets herself, ho hum.....
 
Lol, you are let off, we often give the dog a voice for take the pish reason, like if we have a posh boarder in and we give them an accent or we give a goofy voice over "ah der where did that go" or we take the pish out of one dog for the other:D:D:D:D ok now Im giving away to much:o
It's more so for those desperate to get their dogs attention, they will beg on their behalf and look stupid in the meantime:rolleyes:
 
Aw, we do the same for the older dog and his disgust at the new wriggly puppy! He stares in utter dismay at the juvenile bouncing and then looks at you despairingly , so inevitably comments are - "I demand you remove this monstrosity" "my life is ruined and I blame you", "I will eat him as soon as its more than a mouthful".
 
*ahem* Confession - I talk for Henry...:o But not to get him attention, more because his expressions are so comical they need to be given a voice to go with them:o

Barney also had a voice... so it runs in the family:o
 
Actually my whole office does it, I've just realised... he will sneak off, I will notice and say something along the lines of 'Henry what are you doing, are you being a git?' and as he comes back round the corner looking like butter wouldn't melt inevitably someone will say 'Oh no mumsie, I'm being ever so good...'

Or he will go and plonk himself next to whoever is eating lunch, they will tell him to bugger off (that is a recognised command in our office:D) and someone will always say 'Oh but Aunty So-and-so, look at me, I'm wasting away...'

Oh dear:o

He never actually gets any food or anything mind you:rolleyes:
 
Oh, god, I would kill to have people available who greet me before the bloody dog and ignore her until she's displaying appropriate behaviour. Even briefing people before they come in doesn't help, as soon as they spy a wriggly fluffy wolfydog they can't help themselves.

My dad is the worst, I made him promise to do the whole no touch/talk/eye contact when he first came round - two minutes later they were both wrestling on the floor and he then encouraged her to jump up to see how far she could reach. :rolleyes:

I don't put words in her mouth, though for some reason I imagine her as having a combined Canadian/Scandiwegian accent. My horse speaks like Myfanwy from Little Britain. :D
 
The puppy doesnt need to be given a voice... she uses her own enough.
I do give my little old Border a voice though... particularly when he is mixing with Betsy. It's usually 'Mam.... whats that?!' or 'Can I eat it?' .
 
We used to get a little shih Tzu in to board and he belonged to a pensioner and she spolit him rotten, he used to talk and squeak on, and we used to take the p!sh and say things like when maxi goes home (cos he used to get her attention by making silly noises whilst we where talking to her), we put a voice on and would say "mammy, u dont understand, maxy had had no sausages and had to sleep on the floor, don't sent maxi back there mammy" in a little munchkin voice:D

It's good to take the Pish, jsut not to demand people pay your dog atention in a desperate voice over:rolleyes::D
 
I demand people to ignore 2 of my 3 dogs. The ridgy because she will take your hand off if you approach her before she has sussed you out ad the puppy because... well she is a spoilt hooligan.
 
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To be honest I know a couple who are always speaking for their dogs and yet their dogs (two wire haired dachsunds) are perfectly behaved, I think that an important part of that habit of theirs is not so much their relationship with the dogs, but just a way to break the ice in a conversation with the other human, initiate a conversation, and so forth.

In other words, at least in certain cases I think it's got more to do with human psychology / sociology than with the dog-owner relationship per se.
 
Visitors are always told to ignore Evie and turn their back on her if she starts leaping about, I'm sure she thinks visitors to our house all walk backwards!
If they did have voices, Saffy would now have a little old ladies voice, Buffy would be a female "time nice but dim" and Evie would be a typical teenager, with lots of "wotevers".:D
 
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