What's the funniest communication you have with your dog? (kpwlee)

I'm going to rat David out on this one -- for all his staid/rugged Scot ways he has a wicked sense of humor.  He LOVES to tease the pug.

She's got this little place she likes to jump up on in the living room.  Right next to the wall.  Fawn pug/putty colored wall -- she blends in. David will come up, knowing full well where she is (after having actually not been able to SEE her a couple of times as camoflaged) and he will say loudly to me "Hmmm, where's Tink??  Isn't that strange -- that part of the wall is almost moving!  Breathing?"

She will look up at him in HUGE disgust.  "I'm right here and you KNOW it ... my puggy tail is rockin'  an you NO my face is black, so WHAT is the big deal Buster!!!!"

Then he has to bend down and make nice after yanking her chain.  But oh that LOOK she gives him, and she'll look at me to catch my eye almost verifying to herself that HE is the crazy one, not her!

The other is Charlie.  He really dislikes loud sounds.  He's come a LONG way in the year he's been with us and he's not traumatized by them any more.  But if he's sitting with David and David sneezes,  Charlie will just get up and silently come thru the house to where ever I am.  If he happens to be with me when *I* sneeze, he just quietly gets up and goes in search of David.  He's not afraid -- he's just going to remove himself from the vicinity of any noise THAT loud, thank you!!

 If DH is at the top of the stairs and makes a certain sound Dusty will come racing up the stairs to him.  He can send her back down and 3/4 of the way down if he makes that noise again she'll come racing back up.  They'll do this 6-7 times in a row.  No idea why she started responding to that, or why its pretty much only the stairs, or why its just her. 

I always laugh at DH and Co-Co when they "argue".  He'll start talking to her and she'll shake her head and grumble back.  The more he keeps going the more vocal she gets.  It can last several minutes at a time and to me it is hilarious.

I'm almost afraid to admit this but for some reason when Twister was a puppy I taught him to hunt when I said "kitty, kitty, kitty".  No, I never let him chase or harass our cats or any cat for that matter.  The first time I took him to a JRT event and was getting ready to send him in a tunnel after a rat (caged and not in danger) I was saying this to him to get him ramped up. When I saw some of the looks I was getting I thought I maybe should have trained a different cue word. lol 

Jackie, that's funny! 

I can't think of any funny communication methods we have with Ruby.  I'm going to try a whisper and see what she does.  

When Tonka was a puppy, we learned early that he loved fresh veggies.  If we were cutting some at the kitchen counter, he parked himself at your feet waiting for a bite.  If he was in another room and you yelled, "Tonka, want some broccoli?" he'd come running.  After a time, we realized it didn't matter what word you said -- it was the tone and inflection of your voice and pacing of the words.  So, we'd use nonsense words, like, "Tonka, want some blabbity-blah?" and amuse ourselves watching him make a bee-line for us (don't worry -- we gave him treats instead!).

Lol Jackie! Bad owner!

Neiko and I have this thing that if I stick my tongue out at him and blow (you know what I am talking about? Like neener neener neener!" He will charge and act like he is trying to bite my tongue. He doesn't of course, it is all a play thing and he loves it. My nieces do it with him too. It is a total crack up. You would have to see it to really get it.

Abbie communicates with me through total puppy dog looks. Seriously, she has it perfected. If she wants to come up on the bed, she will plop her head on the bed in a dramatic fashion and give me a look that is nothing but pure puppy dog begging. If she is laying on me on the couch and I stop petting her, she will flop sideways on my and plaster her head against me the give those puppy dog eyes. Its a riot and completely irresistible.

Lily and I roooh roooh at each other when she has stuffies in her mouth (which is 99% of the time ) :)

 When I'm sitting in the living room, Jessie will sit by my feet, lean against my legs, and bump my knees with her head. If I don't pet her, she'll do it again, but harder, until I pet her. She also does this to DH.

 

Jewlieee

Abbie communicates with me through total puppy dog looks. Seriously, she has it perfected.

  Jessie does this too, and lifts her paw at the same time. Always works to get her attention.

 Jackie!! tsk tsk :)

All of these are great!

Well, I tried whispering to Ruby tonight.  She was lounging on the bed and I was putting some laundry away.  I whispered her name a couple times, but she either didn't hear me or didn't want to respond (I was across the room).  I got closer to the bed and bent down more to her level and tried again.  She looked up, then came right over and poked me in the mouth with her nose.  Not sure what that meant!

 I accidentally trained my dogs to seek out a cat when I say "Here Kitty kitty kitty"  I whisper to Dodger and he gives me a confused head tilt.. The other two look at me like I'm nuts. Oh and heaven forbid someone says "Go to work?!" cuz then there's 4 dogs at the front door spazzing. And I only work 3 of them! Lol.

 When we're in bed I whisper Tootsies name and smile. Never fails for her to start roo-rooing and snuggling as close as possible to me.

Lucky has bonded to me like glue since Princess died I can't do anything without her knowing. I swear she understands every word I say. So I just give her a look and a nod with my head and she knows exactly I'm telling her to go into my room. Lucky has become a BIG BABY since Miley is here so when it's time for Miley to be out in the living room and if I put Lucky in the other room she will whine and carry on which then gets Daisy started.

My springer spaniel was a talker. And, before she got her supper every night, she would "sing" grace. Sinbad and Mozey aren't talkers. But, Mozey will do a great (and really loud) hound alert if she sees a critter in her yard!  Sinbad likes to sleep upside down and if I say, "Are you upside down again?" and he'll start wagging his tail.

 

Rupert has a thousand nicknames, one of them being Pooper. So I frequently say things like, "I love my Pooper" and when I come home, "Where's my Pooper!?" and "You're the best Pooper!"

Good thing we don't have close neighbors.  

OK here's another one

If you say "I love you" to Bugsy he wags his tail