Faking Injuries?

Yep, my pug groans and moans like she has the worst arthritis in the world everytime I ask her to go downstairs and into her crate.  As soon as I get her favortie treat out (carrot stick) she'll just run down the stairs like a kid on XMas.

Teenie has a sympathy limp. It's just a way of getting attention[]

I don't think the dog has any ulterior motives - simply has learned that attention follows the limp.  Perhaps she was truly hurt once, and her owner gave her all kinds of attention.  Hmmmm..let's see - that worked before, why not try again?  And, of course she was probably rewarded with concern and attention the second time, too.  For some dogs, that lesson might not stick - for most Aussies that's all it would have taken.[]

I have a horse that is bothered by invisible flies, even in the dead of winter.  Does that count?  []

HaHa!  What a wonderfully creative (and smart) dog.
 
I can't say that Xerxes has faked an injury, but he is or at least used to be, quite the drama-queen.  He had a dog bump into him one time...not even a hard bump- he limped around the park.  A tiny little bit of attention later, he was running at almost full speed, no sign of injury or ailment.  Every now and then he'll do the same thing.  Smart dogs figure out ways to get what they want.

A few months back I remember reading on a greyhound forum about how a woman was getting dinner ready for the pups and they kept getting in her way in the kitchen. Anyway, she used the ceramic type bowls to feed them and as she picked them up to turn around and put them on the floor she accidentally hit one of her greys in the head with the hard ceramic bowl![]  

 [sm=blush.gif] She immediately stopped and looking shocked something like “oh my gosh…are you OK??” to which the greyhound replied by whining and lifting its paw and limping![8D]  

Talk about a drama queen![]  Dogs sure are something else aren't they!

She immediately stopped and looking shocked something like “oh my gosh…are you OK??” to which the greyhound replied by whining and lifting its paw and limping!

That is *funny*! She hit that poor dog so hard, it made him limp!

That is *funny*! She hit that poor dog so hard, it made him limp!

Yep...I suspect there was serious nuerological damage that was done by the ceramic bowl![]  Let this be a "warning" to all ceramic bowl feeders![]

Oh this thread erminds me of when I had to pick up my sister's it bull from the vet after he had hip surgery. He was a littel groggy but he was wagging his tail adn was fine. I sat with him for two hours until she got home. He had drank water and was settled real nice and cozy, that is until my sister walked in.
She rushed over to him cooing and coddling and he ate it up, the lil brat. He started whinning, howling, looking all pathetic and tried to get up and follow her around the house. She was like "how come you wernt holding him"? She laid right there on his dog bed and cuddled, oh spoiled rotten I tell you!

Totally!  My parents rottweiller, sometimes hobbles around on three legs and when we would sit down and put her "injured" paw in our lap giving us the biggest cutest puppy eyes EVER.  Nothing to cause her limp just a spontanious...I'm injured, love me moment.  Of course once any form of food comes out she's been miraculously cured!
I think it was because one time she did really hurt her foot and my mom bandaged it up and we gave her all the attention she loved so much.
SO CUTE![]

“oh my gosh…are you OK??”

 
Haha! This reaction always sparks the foot up against the chest move from my dog, and the sad eyebrows, and the cuddles. Seconds later she's fine and running around.
 
 

When my sister worked a the vet clinc, there was this obnoxious rat terrier that came in as a stray and cried and whined constantly in her kennel. So sis started letting her out to get her to shut up. The terrier would follow her all over the clinic and was quiet as a mouse. Sis wasn't fond of little rat dogs, but felt sorry for this one and took her home over thanksgiving weekend. Well, the dog jumped up on the couch - the cat said "I don't think so" and threw her off the couch. Little rat dog ended up with a broken leg. Since the rule is "you break it, you bought it" Sparky is now a permanent member of the household. The terrier that got her leg broken by a cat now bosses around two Danes. But she will still pull that limp from her broken leg out of her bag of tricks if she thinks it will get attention - usually at family gatherings.

We also had a little terrier that would shiver if he knew you were watchcing. We'd let him out and watch from the back window while he sniffed around and did doggie stuff. If we tapped the window so he would notice us, he would immediately sit and and shiver like he was freezing to death, even picking up each paw like it hurt to put them on the icy ground. Even if it was 80 degrees out.

ha ha ha ha
 
this entire post made me crack up!
 
it'll be a hoot to see!  lol
 
just like when coco just got home from getting her shots... every time i would even go NEAR her rear legs, she would whimper and cry...but still didnt stop her from running around and attacking your toes like a maniac.

When I was growing up, we had a dog that would run away occassionally. We would drive around the neighborhood looking for him. The minute he spotted the car he would do one of two things... either bolt and keep on running... or hit the ground like he had broken legs. I mean to tell you - he would go dead weight. It would take two of us to pick him up and get him in the car.
 
The times when we didn't find him and he would come home on his own... he would drag his legs behind him when he hit the edge of the yard.
 
That dog, Buzzy, was too much.