What quirks does your dog have?

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Few of Talas little oddities...
We tend to let her pick the route for her walks and 95% of the time she will choose streets and car parks, sometimes we have spent nearly an hour going round the car parks at Asda!
If I give her a chew like a pigs ear or something she won't eat it in the house but will wait until I let her in the garden to eat it out there.
She won't eat anything that isn't mostly meat with the exception of shreddies, she goes nuts for shreddies.
What unusual things does yours do or like?
 
It's sad really, but my dog doesn't eat most things. The only dog treats she eats are those that my old dog showed her how to eat. If you give her, say a pigs ear, she just buries it and never goes back to it. If you gave her human food that's not meat she'd point blank refuse it, unless it's egg or cheese, which she loves. Her absolute favourite is scotch eggs! I don't think she'd ever had a dog treat before she came to me at 6 :(

My old JRT used to love the local shopping centre too. Current dog just likes to get in the car to the yard and back again. What I do find funny/annoying depending on my mood, is how she gets so excited when we get near the yard and again when we pull into my road to come home. She does the same thing twice a day, every day, but never fails to bark and start jumping around in the boot, as though it's the best thing that's ever happened!
 
meleeka said:
It's sad really, but my dog doesn't eat most things. The only dog treats she eats are those that my old dog showed her how to eat. If you give her, say a pigs ear, she just buries it and never goes back to it. If you gave her human food that's not meat she'd point blank refuse it, unless it's egg or cheese, which she loves. Her absolute favourite is scotch eggs! I don't think she'd ever had a dog treat before she came to me at 6 :(

My old JRT used to love the local shopping centre too. Current dog just likes to get in the car to the yard and back again. What I do find funny/annoying depending on my mood, is how she gets so excited when we get near the yard and again when we pull into my road to come home. She does the same thing twice a day, every day, but never fails to bark and start jumping around in the boot, as though it's the best thing that's ever happened!
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Our 2nd malamute (RSPCA rescue) just wouldn't ever play with toys, we tried attaching them to a piece of string so we could move them from a distance, leaving him alone with them, letting him win tug of war and making a big fuss etc but he always seemed stressed by them, when we got our 3rd he would bark at her to tell her off for chewing her toys. We assumed that he'd been beaten as a puppy for chewing and was so stressed that he couldn't understand that he was ALLOWED to chew things we gave him ( his owners were prosecuted for cruelty by the RSPCA, so he'd had a pretty tough time), it always made me sad that he never got over that 😢
 
My dog, who was banned from antlers and yak chews when our old dog was around as she would get mean possessive… doesn’t like either of those chews now he’s gone!
 
Mine's pretty easy but a bit OCD, GSD X. Most annoying habit is obsessive drinking, my daughter and I share dog care for each other when working. When I pick mine up, she insists on drinking for at least a minute when we get home, usually emptying her bowl. Clearly the poor animal isn't offered a drink at my daughter's :rolleyes:
 
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When very excited she will only spin in right hand circles. She accidentally went left once, stopped, and corrected herself. Also has a worrying love of carrots and an amazing ability to find a bit of you not covered in clothes to lick, no sock is pulled high enough to defeat her.
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Dogs can often be left or right pawed...you can see it in retrieves, how they go round a pole or how they turn in a crate etc.
 
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We have a small dog who, as all of them, is not allowed to beg for food at the table. This does apparently not apply to vegetables, which we usually eat after the main course. So, if you're here and decide to eat a cucumber or bell pepper, you'll get a small dog begging you give her a piece. She also loves getting it elsewhere, not only at the table. Despite really preferring meat generally, vegetables is the thing. When she was a puppy, she inhaled the raw meat she got and swallowed a chew stick almost as long as herself whole. She also killed a rat about her own size.
 
Mine are on a spectrum of weirdness from relatively straightforward but evidently a footman in a past life (announces you leaving a room with a single bark) through to something that’s not quite a dog but more akin to some sort of swamp creature who still yearns from the swamp and is often found outside, sat on a garden table looking up at the stars or catching rain in his mouth. Also, he likes to be in disguise. There’s a corrupt dictator in amongst them too.

None of ours have been without quirks. People often have blamed it on the breeds and cross of breeds we’ve had. I think it’s just they’re more reflective of us, as we’re also not without quirks.
 
Mine loves to watch tv and if a dog appears he rushes up barking at it! Funny and annoying wrapped up in one.

He likes to take a 💩 by backing up onto something spikey 😬

He will literally refuse to go outside if it’s pouring with rain. When I invariably force the issue and make him go out, if he is even slightly wet he flings himself at the sofa leg rubbing dry in disgust!
 
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Mine loves to watch tv and if a dog appears he rushes up barking at it! Funny and annoying wrapped up in one.

He likes to take a 💩 by backing up onto something spikey 😬

He will literally refuse to go outside if it’s pouring with rain. When I invariably force the issue and make him go out, if he is even slightly wet he flings himself at the sofa leg rubbing dry in disgust!
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His brother is also convinced rain is indeed acid rain and requires violent sofa drying tactics
 
Haha Ivy does the sofa drying thing too. She gets all snorty and cross when she is wet.

Greyhound Scream of Death. Not when something actually serious has happened. No no. Like if she has sniffed under a bush and part of the bush touches her back in an unexpected way.

Or today, a bit of rope got caught around her leg so she ran and screamed. Thankfully we have mastered that if this happens with the long line she needs to stay still and await assistance.

Or today when she screamed, not growled, not barked, screamed at a small fluffy dog that wanted to play with her. In fairness she was on the lead and it wasn't and it was being ott, but still. Freaked the poor guy right out 😂
 
Big dog sees ghosts - stares at something that isn't there quite regularly both at home and out. Playbows to every horse he sees even if they're at a distance. Will only wear one particular (manky) collar, freaks out when it's removed for cleaning - doesn't happen often - and gets hysterical if you put another, even an apparently identical collar on instead. Only barks when dreaming, awake he huffs viciously. Will only get in the car through one door but after 5 years, I can now persuade him to get out either door. Has to inspect the entire garden perimeter before his first pee every morning. He's very special :)

Little dog - nothing really except a complete lack of brain power. Only his expectation, then dejection to realise that not everyone he sees will want to fuss him.
 
Mine has a few weird things but my friends German short haired pointer now 10 can’t bear it when my friend speaks to the smart speaker! She will run out to the garden and stay out in the rain! Very odd!
 
Sadly long gone but a cav me and ex once had was a scream. If he and other dog were given a chew, he would take his and hide under the coffee table with it. He would then come out, go up to the French doors to the garden, bark like mad until other dog left his chew to see what the fuss was, quick as lightening he would grab the discarded chew and take it to join his
under the coffee table. He would then guard the two chews, never chew them, and if the other dog approached to try and reclaim his, would shoot out from under the table ferociously and then shoot back to guard again. This happened most nights. Quite why the other dog always fell for it I don't know as he wasn't daft.
 
They don’t want to be touched when I come downstairs in the morning, they just want breakfast, but once they’ve been out to pee, they’re desperate for attention, wiggles, moaning til they get grabbed and petted, lots of bum action.
 
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Needing a nightlight but only in some places.

Previous two houses we lived in, fine. My mum's and OHs parents' houses, also fine. Holiday cottage last year, fine.

Current house not fine. OHs sister's house also not fine!
 
We taught Clover to ring a bell if she wants to go outside as she used to just stand by the door in silence until someone noticed her but now sometimes she will ring the bell as a distraction so she can try and sneak back in and steal food :D
Pepper also likes to sit in the window!
 
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