Think maybe he was missed? (Callie *grin*)

    • Gold Top Dog

    Think maybe he was missed? (Callie *grin*)

     Not sure if I can make this be a hyperlink:

     Guy has been gone for 6 months.  It's hysterical -- she tells him ALL about it and trust me -- you almost don't have to use your imagination to hear "words".  My goodness -- she tells him exactly how she feels!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL1LhyLehic&feature=share

    • Gold Top Dog

    Awwww, that's so sweet! 

    You wonder what really goes on in their heads.  I guess they don't really have a concept of time, but I doubt that's the same level of excitement the dog would show if the guy was gone only a night or two.  I've seen what Ruby does when DH has been gone no more than 3 nights; I can't imagine what she'd do if came back after being gone 6 months!

    It's funny to think about dogs reacting more enthusiastically than humans do when someone returns.  Speaking for myself, I don't exhibit nearly the same behavior as Ruby does when DH comes home from a weekend away!  Tongue Tied  In fact, sometimes he'll point that out.  I tell him I don't have a tail, so it's harder for me to demonstrate my joy.  I suppose I could jump up and down, shriek with glee, and clap my hands . . . or not!

    • Gold Top Dog

     Oh my! I got teary eyed, that doggie is SO excited and happy!!

     

    • Gold Top Dog

     Once upon a time, long long ago when I was in college ... we had gotten a dog JUST before I graduated (I'm an only chld, I'd **always** wanted a dog and he and I were thicker than thieves!!). When I went away to school I missed NOTHING from home ... except Pip.  And oh my gosh I missed him. 

     When I came home at Thanksgivng, my mother told me a story.  He missed me as badly as I missed him ... and Mom told him that I would be home after he saw the turkey for Thanksgiving!!  That he didn't need to sit and stare a hole thru the window ... when the turkey came, I'd   be home soon after.  (You gotta know how pragmatic my mother is -- you don't worry, if you KNOW what's going to happen!)

    She says she gave it nearly no thot at all -- But she went to pick up the turkey two days before Thanksgivng ... and suddenly .... guess who was GLUED to the window.  Yep ... Pip.   Mom reinforced it and told him "Yep -- turkey's here ... Sissy will be home soon!"

     Since then I have always tied "events" to "time" for my dogs.  It works.  They even learn to recognize "full moon" (big round ball of light??) and things like Firecracker Day and Christmas.  I just "name" them before I need them ... but it teaches them to keep track of 'events' which are nothing more than "frames of reference" for them.  It's just commands of another type. 

    heck when I send them to boarding, when I pack the cans of dogfood I'll say "We'll be home when the food is gone!!" (and I'll count as I pack them).  They don't have to know "words" ... but they get the "concepts" or the events.  

    That dog ALMOST showed a painful amount of worry.  But then ... I would have loved to have known if the guy talked to the dog via cell phone ... or if she showed the dog his letters (with his scent) -- they do NOT forget.  But boy ... if you knew all that dog said, I'd betcha you would be drowned in guilt!!  Because boy she laid it on!!!!  She was a talker wasn't she??

    • Gold Top Dog
    That is so sweet.
    • Gold Top Dog

    OMG that made me cry!

    • Gold Top Dog

     That's adorable! I imagine some of what she said was, "Don't ever leave me again!"

    • Moderators
    • Gold Top Dog
    love it

    janobonano
    I imagine some of what she said was, "Don't ever leave me again!"

    true!

    • Gold Top Dog
    Sweet!