Strange things your pets do...

[Jstpssng]

I'll repeat a story about our German Shepherd from 2015. He was only about 6 months old at the time. We were sitting in the house in the evening when we thought someone was outside with a flashlight. We saw it moving passed our front window and around to the end of the house. Upon further investigation, we discovered that it was our Shepherd running around with a solar light in his mouth.

This one dezerves more than a FB thumbsup.

 

[NoTrespassing]

I'm sure many of you will find this story hard to believe but I assure you it's 100% true and actually happened to me.

It was the early 1990s and I was living in a small house with a live-in girlfriend in town. We purchased an Amazon parrot together named Freeway.

One day while I was at work, I received a phone call from the city police department. It was the dispatcher and she tells me there is a squad car at my house and wants to know if anyone is home.

It seems one of my girlfriends housekeeping clients had called my house trying to reach her and "someone" had "picked up" the phone and was screaming, so she called the police.

We had just purchased a voice activated answering machine and the damned parrot answered the phone. My girlfriend wasn't home and the client knew where I worked so they called me! I did my best to explain what was going and the dispatcher explained to the patrol man that it had something to do with an answering machine and parrot lmao.

Needless to say, we turned off the voice answering feature immediately.

I submitted the story to readers digest but I doubt they believed it.

 

[John0829]

Here's one I am trying to figure out... Our Chihuahua/Beagle mix in the mornings, AFTER we wake up and are laying there for just a bit longer, most but not everyday, will try to climb up on my chest to sit and stick her nose in my face. If I do not push her off she sits down on me, smells and sneezes in my face until I get up. Sometimes when I stop her she purposely goes to the end of the bed and attempts to walks up my body trying to get up to my chest. Also does it with my wife but not nearly as often, usually it's just me.

Otherwise a good dog and follows commands, most of the time until, "squirrel".

 

[kenmbz]

We had a russian grey cat that was pretty smart and acted like a dog.
Would play fetch etc.
Acted like a cat thought when trying to give pills, needed body armor for that.

He would follow my kid around when he was a baby and play with his toys, opening and closing the doors and generally doing what my son was doing.
He would open compartments, take out what the kid put in and then close the compartment.

 

[Runner]

Here's one I am trying to figure out... Our Chihuahua/Beagle mix in the mornings, AFTER we wake up and are laying there for just a bit longer, most but not everyday, will try to climb up on my chest to sit and stick her nose in my face. If I do not push her off she sits down on me, smells and sneezes in my face until I get up. Sometimes when I stop her she purposely goes to the end of the bed and attempts to walks up my body trying to get up to my chest. Also does it with my wife but not nearly as often, usually it's just me.

Otherwise a good dog and follows commands, most of the time until, "squirrel".

Need a piccy of this dog.

 

[John0829]

Need a piccy of this dog.

Wife had DNA testing done on her, as she does every dog since it became available. It has been interesting seeing what the blend is and how the different dogs turned out/looked. Some you can see breed traits and others not so much.

 

[Runner]

Wife had DNA testing done on her, as she does every dog since it became available. It has been interesting seeing what the blend is and how the different dogs turned out/looked. Some you can see breed traits and others not so much. View attachment 3775970
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She is a cutie. Thanks.

Sure don't see any Shih Tzu in there....

 

[masseyrider]

Wife had DNA testing done on her, as she does every dog since it became available. It has been interesting seeing what the blend is and how the different dogs turned out/looked. Some you can see breed traits and others not so much. View attachment 3775970
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Looks like my Lilly did. She was Chihuahua and Manchester Terrier mix.
I miss my little Piglet (her nickname).

 

[WinterDeere]

Anyone who has lived with a Lab will recognize this behavior. Those dogs live for food.

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[Dftodd]

We have my wife's sister living with us at the moment. So the door to the bunk room usually stays closed. The door is a sliding barn door for the bunk room.

My sister in law went to bed and my wife and I were still up. I'm in the bathroom just finished taking a shower when I hear a ruckus from the living room and binkroom area.

Well gypsy's ball rolled under the door and into the bunk room.

What we found out was Gypsy knows how to open that door.

So she slid the bunkroom door open and was getting her ball

 

[JRH02]

Our 9 month old Catahoula puppy HATES anything up in the sky that makes noise. A raven, helicopter, plane and especially the night hawks when they dive. I'm wondering at this point if she'll grow out of it. Neither of our adult Catahoula dogs do this so the pup didn't learn it from them.

 

[MossRoad]

Our 9 month old Catahoula puppy HATES anything up in the sky that makes noise. A raven, helicopter, plane and especially the night hawks when they dive. I'm wondering at this point if she'll grow out of it. Neither of our adult Catahoula dogs do this so the pup didn't learn it from them.

Is she scared of them or does she bark at them?

We had a male Cairn Terrier that would stand on his hind legs and bark at lighting and thunder, jets, and oh boy if a hot air balloon goes over!

 

[Dftodd]

Is she scared of them or does she bark at them?

We had a male Cairn Terrier that would stand on his hind legs and bark at lighting and thunder, jets, and oh boy if a hot air balloon goes over!

Drones will freak out my German shepherd.

I kept hearing a buzzing sound but couldn't see it at first.

Boy the hackles stood up on gypsy's back, and she was looking at it and growling.

Thats when I looked up and realized it was a drone.

Then we were off!!!! I got dragged back home. She was having none of that mess

 

[JRH02]

Is she scared of them or does she bark at them?

We had a male Cairn Terrier that would stand on his hind legs and bark at lighting and thunder, jets, and oh boy if a hot air balloon goes over!

She barks, howls and growls for sure. But at her age she is definitely a chicken ****. If the big dogs tear off to investigate something the pup has to be involved but she hangs well back and barks from a safe place. It's really kind of funny.

 

[orezok]

Anyone who has lived with a Lab will recognize this behavior. Those dogs live for food.

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My dog eats laying down all the time.

 

[Hay Dude]

My dog eats laying down all the time.

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You may want to look at that as a hint from your dog to raise your dog’s feeding bowl onto a platform.
Dogs need to eat at a height that’s healthy for swallowing and good digestion.

 

[Eagle1]

You may want to look at that as a hint from your dog to raise your dog’s feeding bowl onto a platform.
Dogs need to eat at a height that’s healthy for swallowing and good digestion.


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I'm not teaching mine to eat at table or counter height. They can but know better. I'd rather them lay down to eat.
All of them can reach the back of the stove with 4 paws on the ground or the top of the fridge with 2 on the floor.

 

[masseyrider]

Ma had a small terror pup who always had to back his bum up to something when he pooped.
Until he got house broken you would find puppy poop stuck to different surfaces at his bum level.
His favorite was doors and winter boots.
He was spotless after being house broke.
But even outside he would back into bushes, tree trunks, car tires...
Years later he had a daughter that was the same way.

 

[WinterDeere]

Question for you fellow terror owners: we have a Boston Terrier, 2 years old, that wants to play more hours per day than we have time to entertain it, or at times we’re just not available. It seems a second dog is in order, so she has a playmate.

We’ve done the dual dog thing before, we had two mini Pinschers at the same time previously, but although they just passed two years ago, it has been too many years since they were young pups for me to remember how advantageous or painful that was.

We have two adoption candidates, both 2 - 4 years old, one being another female Boston terrier and the other a French bulldog. The frenchie is a true couch potato, just wants to sleep or cuddle all day, the Boston terrier is the typical terror.

So, the question is, which would be a better playmate for our dog, and either have an overall calming effect on her, or give her someone to play with when we cannot?

I’m leaning toward the second Boston, but worry it might increase rather than decrease our overall time commitment. On the flip side, the couch potato may displace our present dog’s evening cuddle time with the kids, which could have a detrimental effect.

 

[orezok]

You may want to look at that as a hint from your dog to raise your dog’s feeding bowl onto a platform.
Dogs need to eat at a height that’s healthy for swallowing and good digestion.


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I don’t know. She seems to swallow just fine and then goes and lies down while digesting. Should I make her stand up for a couple of hours after eating?