your dogs funny traits!

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just wondering if your dogs have any particular traits that you find quite amusing/disgusting! After my dog has had a drink/eaten he'll put his head in either my or my OH's lap and burp! (quite loudly) guaranteed after everytime he's consumed something!! :rolleyes:he's also quite partial to chewing glasses :eek: we've had a few pairs of sunglasses that have been snatched from the coffee table :cool:.

So, want to hear if any of your dogs do any thing to make you smile/scream :D
 
when my elder dog has finished eating he goes and wipes his mouth all over the sofa to clean it off (if i've not got him with the towel first, he's a messy bugger) He also drives me NUTS when it's dinner time as he stands and stares at me and barks until i give in. Like pavlov's dog, except i'm the one responding to the bell!!!!
 
Great thread!

Fred does this weird scooty thing - throws himself on the floor and propels himself forward, wiping his face on the carpet - right after he's eaten. He also wipes his feet, much like a cat, after he has peed or pood in the woods. Daisy has what we call her "sucky toy" . . . it's an almost shredded bear (that once belonged to my daughters) which she stuffs in her mouth, sucks and kneads with her front paws (we suspect she was taken away from her Mammy too young) . . . she does this before she goes to sleep. Daisy also has what we call "the whirly dance" . . . it's a very collie behaviour - spinning (first one way and then the other - only once in each direction before she changes over) and oofing (it's too soft and quiet to be a full-on woof) when she wants something . . . for a human to throw a ball, her dinner, to go out, a biscuit/treat, for a human to throw a stick.

Both dogs have the collie stare perfected - but that's not strange, that's just them being typical collie types.

Our old lurcher, Tilly, used to do what we called "frog dog" . . . she'd lay flat out on her stomach with both back legs splayed out like a frog . . . I always wondered how on earth that was comfortable but as Tilly liked her creature comforts it must have been. She also wouldn't go outside in the rain . . . she would ask to go out into the garden, stand and look out, harumph and then go and lie down again. Lastly, Tilly had a thing for butter . . . it was like a drug to her . . . most lurchers are champion counter surfers, but Tills could actually jump up onto the kitchen counter (she had springs in her feet) so we had to keep the butter in the plates cupboard.

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PolarSkye, some of those were hilarious! Georgie is a collie too and he does the whole wiping his feet dance after he's been to the loo! He reminds me of Scrat (the squirrel from Ice Age) when he finds a stick he likes out on a walk absolutely nothing will come between him and his stick!
 
LOL!!

Lola has a few :

She prefers to sleep with her head under or inside something .. just enclosed! So if she's sharing the bed with me its under my neck or arm or whatever.. but if shes in her own bed its pushed under her blanket or mattress which looks strange :)

She does the back leg wiping feet thing too!

She has to chase her tail in both directions and if you hold her.. she remembers and will chase her tail in the remaining direction afterwards!

She knows she's not allowed baby toys and so tries to sneak them into her crate for chomping on later when no-ones looking ;).

She cannot fall asleep in a regular position (see 'ridiculous sleeping positions' thread)

She taps on the door with her claws when she wants to come in from the garden :)

She likes to put a plantpot on her head and hoon round the garden =/

On walks she likes to acquire something she can hold in her mouth.. doesnt matter what this object is! dead things, sticks, paper, plastic bags ...
 
Sleeping on the sofa with his nose either under my arm or jammed up my dressing gown sleeve- must be a lurcher thing ;)

Telling the hoover off- its the little wheels, clearly up to no good. Ditto the wheely bin, and push lawn mower. No idea why the garden rake is also on the naughty step.

The sunday paper game- as my house is tiny, I can throw toys from the sofa out the front door. A bit of newspaper slowly scrunched into a ball and thrown into the garden is apparently the best game ever

And for being a super little dog when this year for me has been not-so-super. I've even nearly forgotten the laptop lead chewing incident!
 
Obi runs around the sitting room with the end of his leader in his mouth swinging the chain from side to side before a walk, then he'll grab the end of Harry's leader and pull him around the sitting room. When they get a bone they wont share the same bed to eat it so they spend an hour picking their bones up and swapping beds whilst eyeing each other up going around in circles. Harry normally gets sick of his first and comes into the sitting room for a cuddle at which point Obi will pick his bone up and go to the other bed and sit looking pleased with his two bones! Any furry cuddly toys are demolished and de stuffed in minutes. Obi dosent mind what the toy looks like, I once stuffed an old cushion with fluffy stuff from a toy and tied it in the middle. 5 minutes later he'd ripped a hole in it and spent the next 2 minutes carefully pulling all the stuffing out, once this is done he's no longer interested in it!
 
Toby does the most bizarre "thing" that I have never seen a dog do before.

Out on a walk he will pick up a stone, drop it and then frantically pull up the grass underneath it, shaking it to death. Then nudge the stone a bit further forward with his nose, pull up the grass and so it goes on - he does this every single day and always has, he never tires of it and I am damned sure he would do it for hours if I had the time to stand still with him!

Its been a bugger to stop him from doing it in the garden! When you walk around the moor where I live, you can see where Toby has been - it looks just like badgers have been there :eek:
 
I don't know so much about you or others dogs of you, I just knew that my dog has some funny and good traits. These are that which i like when I come hug with me like a man and also give me a sleepers to wear and put my shoes on place.
 
paisley said:
Telling the hoover off- its the little wheels, clearly up to no good. Ditto the wheely bin, and push lawn mower. No idea why the garden rake is also on the naughty step.
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Fred's the same . . . hoover, electric lawn mower, the dishwasher (we didn't have one in our old house) and (for a while at least) the printer. He was outraged when he came across a municipal worker cutting a patch of grass on one of our favourite walks - he was off-lead and before I could stop him he hot-footed it to offer his protection . . . he did his best collie/herding thing and nipped the man on the bottom . . . I was mortified!

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Barney does lots, but the best one is when my nans snoozing in her chair he creeps up to her very very slowly and quietly, gets his head in front of her face and does one very loud bark to wake her up and then bounds around the room looking very pleased with himself :D
 
montyforever said:
Barney does lots, but the best one is when my nans snoozing in her chair he creeps up to her very very slowly and quietly, gets his head in front of her face and does one very loud bark to wake her up and then bounds around the room looking very pleased with himself :D
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This made me LOL. Bless him. What breed is he?

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montyforever said:
Barney does lots, but the best one is when my nans snoozing in her chair he creeps up to her very very slowly and quietly, gets his head in front of her face and does one very loud bark to wake her up and then bounds around the room looking very pleased with himself :D
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PMSL :D

My lurcher does the burp thing too - gross.. He also steals butter and especially likes sugar, he managed to swipe the sugar bowl once which resulted in him spending all evening on his chair with his head up looking like ET and his eyes like saucers! :D

He doesn't 'do' toys, they're far too juvenile but likes telling fireworks off, he's not bothered by them in the slightest but if let out into the garden his barks once at each bang in his best "send em off" voice!

His best trick has to be when my terrier is in the kennel and won't let him in - Jasper (terrier) sits just inside the doorway snarling and sam (lurcher) stands outside with his head in the hole and howls till jasper gets sick of the noise and moves at which point sam climbs in - usually over the top of jasper causing more snarling!
 
lol.... just remembered this one...

My OH has a Malinois who has a thing for apples - he likes the ball shape and the taste is an added bonus :rollyseyes: after he'd demolished all the windfalls he clearly decided that the best way to get his apple fix was to run at the tree with his gaze firmly locked on to an apple, jump up - and boy can he jump! - grab said apple and pull it from the tree!!
This has recently morphed into grabbing and removing a branch, his logic? - 1 jump = multiple apples! Honestly he's too clever for his own good that one!
 
maggiesmum said:
lol.... just remembered this one...

My OH has a Malinois who has a thing for apples - he likes the ball shape and the taste is an added bonus :rollyseyes: after he'd demolished all the windfalls he clearly decided that the best way to get his apple fix was to run at the tree with his gaze firmly locked on to an apple, jump up - and boy can he jump! - grab said apple and pull it from the tree!!
This has recently morphed into grabbing and removing a branch, his logic? - 1 jump = multiple apples! Honestly he's too clever for his own good that one!
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What a clever boy! I'm amazed the apples don't give him the runs though ;)

Oh this reminds me of something Dinks (aka Daisy) did the other day - she climbed a tree! Probably got a good 25 feet up. She's got quite a jump on her and just hopped up into the first "Y" section of the big oak and then started scooting up the branches . . . she'd have gone higher if I hadn't started frantically calling her down . . . I was worried she'd lose her footing and fall out of the tree . . . perhaps she's part cat?

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maggiesmum said:
PMSL :D

My lurcher does the burp thing too - gross.. He also steals butter and especially likes sugar, he managed to swipe the sugar bowl once which resulted in him spending all evening on his chair with his head up looking like ET and his eyes like saucers! :D
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This also made me laugh . . . what is it about lurchers and food-nabbing? I can't even begin to imagine my two mad collie crosses high on sugar . . . shudder . . .

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Quila does 'frog legs' when lying down, but will also stay like that and drag herself along with get front feet if you tell her to get out of the way.

Jack answers back, if i tell him off of being on the sofa or something like that (not a 'proper' telling off) he grumbles back at me. He also grumbles to himself if he thinks hes getting less fuss/food etc. He then grabs all the bones and puts them in his bed lol.

Both of them herd the cats if they have the chance too but that very rarely happens.
 
there are some great ones lol!

Georgie also likes apples and carrots, if he has a carrot in his mouth he'll walk around very proud of himself showing everyone what he's got, he looks a bit like a snowman with it sticking out his mouth 'cos he's white and fluffy :rolleyes:
 
I'm enjoying reading this thread! Mine has some of the ones you've mentioed already...like the collie feet wiping dance...other ones -

She runs and shakes so hard that she has almost shaken herself off her feet

she has a ritual of shaking her ears every night at the same time when we tell her it's time to go outside

she does a kind of commando crawl across the floor when she is in a good mood,

when she is running towards a toy she particularly likes she does a giant leap in the air randomly a few paces out from the toy

she sometimes runs to her bowl, grabs a mouthful of biscuits and runs off to spit them out somewhere in the house, then she picks them up individually and throws them in the air and pounces after them ...like a cat or something!
 
Dylan:

Disgusting-farts and then smells it, kid you not.

-watches my fish tank for ages and ages he also watches TV animal documentary with birds are the best.

-sleeps upside and spreads out on all furniture, sometimes sits with his bum and back legs on sofa front legs on floor.

-enjoys sliding off the sofa

-Sleeps with his head on the bricks by the fire and then barks at the fire if it spits at him

-After I cook Dylan has to lick my oven front and cooker knobs clean......




Teal:

-Has to spin at least 3 times before settling for bed.

-After dinner rubs his head all over the rug infront of the fire, he must think its his personal napkin.

-Sleeps on the sofa with his nose pressed against it, and he makes some very weird noises



Buster:

-does a really annoying whiny thing (which I ignore) and then dances round the garden like a spring lamb (which I also ignore) until I put his lead on. He did run into the bramble bush doing this last week and took the brambles with him......


-eats for about 10minutes kibble, 5 seconds raw.
 
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The pup thinks I am covered in buttons judging by the way he slaps me on the knee, hand or up the face any time he wants something. Or that time he pressed our trainer hard right in the groin and right enough, the trainer did let go of that ball the pup wanted, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
He also loves having his paw held, awwww and having one paw always touching me.
He is also a bit of a talker and always has to be biting something or have something in his mouth, the latter being more annoying than anything if he decides it is soft furnishings he wants to have in his mouth.
(Maggiesmum, having a workydog in the house should know what I am going on about :p)

Big dog is a leeeaner, he loves to lean so hard he knocks you over. It is actually an insecurity thing so I try not to let him do it any more, he has to man up! :p
He is very snuffly as well, snuffles and grunts to communicate.
 
CaveCanem said:
Oh and I forgot the pup's tantrums, the big, bratty, Eric Cartman-style, throwing himself on the floor upside-down and screaming tantrums....
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mine did that when he when we first had him, also the first time I put a lead on him, I let it hang loose just so he could get used to the feel of it and oh my god he screamed the place down!! (the was no one holding the lead??!!!) I was worried the neighbours were going to come round thinking we were beating the poor creature :eek:
 
Hehe, loving this thread!

To share a few of mine:

T talks A LOT. Not including her 'normal' dog noises, e.g. the 'my house' bark when there's a knock at the door, and telling off A, she has a whole variety of conversational noises. She does a sort of half-whine, half-woof chatter when I come in the front door, which changes pitch and tone, almost as if she's asking about my day and sharing hers. She'll do this whenever I talk to her. She also has what we call her rumble-grumble, which happens if she's picked up, ignored for too long, she can't find a comfy spot to settle down in (which exactly suits her specifications at that moment), etc, etc. It's very like an old lady muttering under her breath, except she's also looking up at you from under her fringe as she does it - her straight, black fringe, which makes her seem kinda like an emo teenager instead. She also has a sound very very like an oath when she falls off the bed!

Her other endearing traits include secreting away her 'treasures' - a sock, a chew, whatever is flavour of the moment, then nipping out and snaking either her sister's (if we're visiting my folks) or A's (at home) and lying down on both of them. She also loves doing a chin-prop on...ahem...one's bust, whenever one of us is lying down. She clearly thinks certain parts of the female anatomy are only there to be pillows for dogs!

A has a few too. She loves to sleep buried down deep under the bed covers, particularly with her nose stuffed in an armpit. She curls up and mutual grooms with one of our cats. My favourite, though, is her reaction to the snow drifts that pile up along the drive at the yard. She charges at them, leaps, and then goes zooming along just under the surface like some sort of cartoon mole, before emerging in an explosion of the white stuff, wearing a silly spaniel grin!
 
JessHakner said:
mine did that when he when we first had him, also the first time I put a lead on him, I let it hang loose just so he could get used to the feel of it and oh my god he screamed the place down!! (the was no one holding the lead??!!!) I was worried the neighbours were going to come round thinking we were beating the poor creature :eek:
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Yeah, anytime he is being asked to do something he doesn't want to do, I've had people come running to see what the hell is wrong with him, when I'm just asking him to sit in one spot or holding him at arm's length so he does not bite my ankle, thanks very much.....
 
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