What does your dog do when they don't want to do something?

 If my dogs are stressed, they avoid eye contact and yawn. 

 Ditto. Tootsie does this also.

 Emma flops. If I want to trim her nails, all four feet land underneath her. She's the Queen of Flop. If I want  her to go somewhere she doesn't want to be, she turns 19 lbs into 1900 lbs. FLOP! Sorry, Ma, not today. I'm not into force, much, myself, so I'll usually just tell her, "Sorry, you gotta do it, heel" for the not going flop. Then, I reward the heel heavily. For the nails, ears, whatever flop, I'll have her sit, then reward her  and do what I need to do.

Ena squiggles, squirms, spins, and leaps when she doesn't like something. We're struggling with this, right now. The other day, I picked her up to put her into the raised tub, and she leapt from my arms. This is DANGEROUS, and scary. Crested legs break, easily. I'm undecided, what to do for that one, besides the obvious hang on better, LOL. 

Generally the same thing as Liesje's dogs. Gaci will yawn, put her ears back, or avert her gaze. Shimmer in particular will lay down when she's confused or unsure about doing as I ask. Not much fazes Zipper, in truth, and I actually don't really ever ask much of him as I don't have to. His only thing, which I think is funnier than anything, is his aversion to putting his "boy parts" (he's intact) on cold surfaces. It's the funniest thing to watch him comply without actually doing it. He won't lay down on cement/cold tile/etc unless there is a mat or blanket.

In agility, for the first while when Gaci still found it quite stressful she would tell me when she was "done" and would go to her kennel on her own. I had to learn to read her to know when she was ready before she gave up so that I could then ask her to go to her bed so she didn't learn that she could just quit when she was ready, but at the same time acknowledging her stress. By pushing just a little longer each time, without going over, she now has not run to her kennel now in a couple of months while practicing agility.

    All dogs will do the "flop" if they think it's bath time. Each one needs to first be located (under bed, behind doors, under desk), then they will walk with me to the door of the grooming room where they flop. I have to carry them the final few steps to the tub!!

     Several will lie down and try to be invisible if I'm putting wet, muddy dogs in the runs to dry off. Fortunatley, the dogs that try the invisible BC look are usually the dogs that are clean and dry, and as soon as tthe run doors are shut they dash for the house.

Kim_MacMillan

Gaci will yawn, put her ears back, or avert her gaze.

Apollo does that, too.

Caleb's a brat- looks at something else and pretends he doesn't hear me.  A firm "Caleb Takoda" gets his attention, tho.

 If Ari doesn't want to do something because to her there's something else that's more fun, she'll turn her head and I swear she's saying "la la la I don't heaaaar youuuu!".  If she's stressed, she'll yawn and get fidgety. 

If it's just something she doesn't want to do, because she's bored - I'll work with her on being more excited and do something quick I know she thinks is fun, and then go back to what I actually want her to do.  If she's stressed, I remove her from the situation that I put her in (because it was too much for her obviously) and work on slowly getting her back to what I want her to do in a higher stress situation.

Jewlieee

Basically, that just reminds me that I haven't made the harness a positive thing and I get out treats.

For Nike, if he doesn't like something, he runs and hides.  Honor does the look away "I can't hear you thing", and Eli turns into a rock on the ground.  He'll lay there, glued to the ground.  Honor's the champion of selective hearing, especially when she's gotten into something she knows she shouldn't have.

corvus

he will often lie down and go limp.

Ha Noel does that too.Around here we call it "turning jelly blob".Turbo will run away and hide if he sees the towel to dry his feet or if he's not ready to come in from outside yet.Jewel will just do whatever I ask and give me the "How could you do this to me?" look.

Tena

 what I am the only one who's dog turns into a mule??  Oh yea he is a mule

The funniest is when he is too hyper with guests and you say - come on you're going upstairs - he will go near the guests and turn into a mule - no way you gonna move him becuase he will go somewhere where you can't reach him properly without bothering the guest and he turns into a mule.  It is very funny and not one person has ever done anything but laugh.

For baths he just stares at you like - you know I hate this, but I'll let you do it and then he stoically hops into the tub.

Can't think of anything else that bothers him LOL

the Danes know full well that no one can move them if they don't want to so they just stop moving and avoid eye contact. the herding dogs generally are eager to please so they don't ever seem to not-want to cooperate. Except about going home, when they are mysteriously slow to move towards the car and have to stop and smell all sorts of things.

kpwlee

 what I am the only one who's dog turns into a mule??  Oh yea he is a mule

My mom's boxer mix does that! If you want him to move he just stands there LOL.