Things that annoy you (about your dogs).

Parading with toy ie ‘Sit down, I need to get on your knee and paddle myself to sleep’ then getting off then demanding to be back on my knee although I’d quite like a dog free moment.

Clambering onto my knee and sitting on Goose’s head because he’s decided the airfryer is scary despite having had it for years. Tried to get inside my sweatshirt.
 
DabDab said:
I have a dog flap. Beyond doing a sweep for poo I don't even think about if/when my dogs need to toilet.

Sorry op 😜
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Our puppy sussed out how to go through the cat flap about a week after we got him! He's just turned 6 months and somehow still fits 😳 It's a pain though as he loves the delicacy that is cat 💩 so will whizz through the flap after them to get it warm straight out of the oven 🤢

He's just had us convinced that he had massive worms despite being wormed religiously but then I realised it was rope from a rope toy he found and destroyed because nothing is safe from his jaws!
 
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I live at the back of the village green and people tend to wander round with their dogs which really winds my three up. If one of them spots a dog all three have to join in and bark… if it’s just people they don’t bother 😟 I expect it of the terriers but the lurcher has copied them …
 
Spiritedly said:
Our puppy sussed out how to go through the cat flap about a week after we got him! He's just turned 6 months and someone still fits 😳 It's a pain though as he loves the delicacy that is cat 💩 so will whizz through the flap after them to get it warm straight out of the oven 🤢

He's just had us convinced that he had massive worms despite being wormed religiously but then I realised it was rope from a rope toy he found and destroyed because nothing is safe from him jaws!
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Ah, we have dog flap out of back door and cat flap out of the front door - reduces that kind of shenanigans because the dogs are mainly air locked away from the front door.

Although I did have an idiot moment a couple of months ago when I went outside and forgot to shut the internal door that stops the dogs getting to the front door. Small dog merrily brought herself out the front to find me, and the Kelpie, full of 100% confidence and 0% self awareness merrily followed her. He did somehow manage to get himself through without getting stuck, but the flap was rather the worse for wear 😬
 
I love my Spaniel dearly but the two things he does to annoy me are :

When he’s rolling in something utterly disgusting and his hearing becomes ‘selective’ and I have to march over to grab him. The little git roles faster as I approach, really grinding himself in.

He looooooves people. All people, he’s not selective. He seems especially fond of those people who clearly aren’t great fans of dogs and if they seem nervous - what a great game! He wiggles up to them shaking his bum like a stripper working for that money. If that doesn’t work he does the meerkat, sitting on his haunches looking like he might leap on them (he never does as he had a lot of anti Jump training) but the unsuspecting person doesn’t know he won’t jump. When I go to retrieve him he adopts the dead possum pose. On his back, legs in the air, head to the side, tongue lulling out and look as cute as possible. He keeps completely floppy so moving him results in some ungainly manoeuvring from me to get him away from people.
 
The fact that I'm currently not allowed in the downstairs loo unaccompanied. There really isn't room for me and a german shepherd! If I do shut her out, she scrabbles, whinges and pesters at the door.

Upstairs is absolutely fine, apparently.
 
Spotherisk said:
Like this?! 🤣

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This has reminded me of another thing that annoys me. He doesn’t like being dressed up 🤣. He would rock a belly dancing outfit but he wouldn’t let me put it on if I had one 🤣.
I set him up an instagram in the hope of insta fame but he won’t wear cute jumpers or hats.
 
My daughter’s dog, drives me nuts!!
Has to be fed alone so I put him in the downstairs bathroom. He either eats up and comes out or will yap, I go to get him and he quickly starts eating, so I leave him, he yaps, I go open the door, he eats, I shut the door, he yaps, I go open the door, he eats….
FML
 
poiuytrewq said:
My daughter’s dog, drives me nuts!!
Has to be fed alone so I put him in the downstairs bathroom. He either eats up and comes out or will yap, I go to get him and he quickly starts eating, so I leave him, he yaps, I go open the door, he eats, I shut the door, he yaps, I go open the door, he eats….
FML
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Can’t you just leave him shut in there for 10 minutes? If he hasn’t eaten up then he’s lost his chance of eating until the next meal.
 
Unicorn said:
The fact that I'm currently not allowed in the downstairs loo unaccompanied. There really isn't room for me and a german shepherd! If I do shut her out, she scrabbles, whinges and pesters at the door.

Upstairs is absolutely fine, apparently.
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I have to go accompanied by 5 Labradors and sometimes a beagle. It’s very cosy.
 
I'm lost with all of this pooing stuff. Open back door, dog (any dog, all dogs we have ever had) goes out into the garden. After a while return to back door, open it and dog who has toileted himself or herself with whatever function it considers necessary comes back in. Why is that difficult?
 
paddy555 said:
I'm lost with all of this pooing stuff. Open back door, dog (any dog, all dogs we have ever had) goes out into the garden. After a while return to back door, open it and dog who has toileted himself or herself with whatever function it considers necessary comes back in. Why is that difficult?
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I wish! Poppy needs to be watched closely otherwise she eats the evidence 🤢
 
paddy555 said:
I'm lost with all of this pooing stuff. Open back door, dog (any dog, all dogs we have ever had) goes out into the garden. After a while return to back door, open it and dog who has toileted himself or herself with whatever function it considers necessary comes back in. Why is that difficult?
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Gundogs not left out unattended, ever. I don't need them learning to self employ chasing things in the garden.
 
Reminds me Puppy took it into her head to chase swallows. This was not long after I’d had surgery. By the time I’d headed her off I thought I had come undone again and was nearly dead. That was very annoying and she is not ever doing it again.
 
I don't mind that my dogs don't do number 2s in the garden, they are clean in kennels as well. My garden isn't big and I don't want to step in anything, if I'm out with them, at least I know exactly where they've gone, and if their stools are solid etc.
I also have the type of dog that would make Terrible Decisions if just let out to please themselves.
 
Lulling us into thinking she likes [insert gross bit of animal natural chew thing here] so we buy it again, then deciding she doesn't care for it anymore so we're stuck with [insert gross bit of animal natural chew thing here].
 
Although I did have an idiot moment a couple of months ago when I went outside and forgot to shut the internal door that stops the dogs getting to the front door. Small dog merrily brought herself out the front to find me, and the Kelpie, full of 100% confidence and 0% self awareness merrily followed her. He did somehow manage to get himself through without getting stuck, but the flap was rather the worse for wear 😬
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A previous malamute tried to get through the cat flap, can you guess how that ended up??
 
CorvusCorax said:
I don't mind that my dogs don't do number 2s in the garden, they are clean in kennels as well. My garden isn't big and I don't want to step in anything, if I'm out with them, at least I know exactly where they've gone, and if their stools are solid etc.
I also have the type of dog that would make Terrible Decisions if just let out to please themselves.
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I'm not sure what terrible decisions a dog could make in my garden. It is fenced to 6ft so any dog stays put. There is nothing to chase, if a bird flies past so be it. I don't think I have ever had a dog that chases swallows, the cat looks at them sometimes but never the dog. The flowers are fenced off. I walk round with a scoop clearing up that only takes a couple of minutes.

I am truly amazed that people are unhappy to let their dogs out into the garden on their own. Other than a small puppy that gets fenced into a smaller area I have never not just let them go. When the weather is fine they have the door open and can come in/go out as they wish.
My parents always just let our dog out in the garden when I was a child so I have spent nearly 70 years just letting dogs out into the back garden and never thinking it was odd. We have only ever had mongrels, GSDs and BCs. This is a whole new learning experience.
 
paddy555 said:
I'm not sure what terrible decisions a dog could make in my garden. It is fenced to 6ft so any dog stays put. There is nothing to chase, if a bird flies past so be it. I don't think I have ever had a dog that chases swallows, the cat looks at them sometimes but never the dog. The flowers are fenced off. I walk round with a scoop clearing up that only takes a couple of minutes.

I am truly amazed that people are unhappy to let their dogs out into the garden on their own. Other than a small puppy that gets fenced into a smaller area I have never not just let them go. When the weather is fine they have the door open and can come in/go out as they wish.
My parents always just let our dog out in the garden when I was a child so I have spent nearly 70 years just letting dogs out into the back garden and never thinking it was odd. We have only ever had mongrels, GSDs and BCs. This is a whole new learning experience.
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Mine came in with a half alive bird once when I turned my back for a minute. She gets watched like a hawk now, I hope to never wash bird innards off my floor again.
 
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