Perfect Dogs!

ORIGINAL: glenmar

I think they have company with Grady too!

 
Hahahahaha, ya think?  Actually he's growing out of that.  He's now only up my butt if I'm carrying food DOWNstairs.

Slick has horrible house manners..  He jumps up to greet everyone and he steals anything and everything that smells like one of us.  Oh and he hangs out ON the coffee table.  Exhibits A and B:
 

berserker cannot be left home alone, the neighbors complained about his incessant whining once already.

he is an extremely shameless beggar.

he barks when someone knocks on the door, and continues even after i've opened it.

whenever he goes to a new house he tries to pee on the furniture.

he bites me when i clip his nails. still.

im sure theres more i cannot think of right now.

Great idea for a thread!!
 
Where do I begin with this one?
 
Xerxes and/or Gaia
Loves to give the jump & bump greeting to people he knows and loves.
 
Can bark 24/7 if you let him/her.
 
X: Is so silly sometimes that he won't pay attention to training, he'd rather try to make me laugh.
 
G: Is so serious that even if I raise my voice on the phone she cringes and hides.
 
Eats the cats food constantly.
 
Knows that there is no trashcan, food bin, refrigerator, or pantry that he cannot gain access to.
 
Can open doors from inside or outside.
 
Can read signals from other dogs from hundreds of feet away and interprets them as if those signals were meant for him.
 
Did I mention he barks alot?
 
Will countersurf and steal entire meals if given the chance- or will work in concert with Gaia to distract me in order to steal food.
 
That's just a short list....I could probably come up with 100 more things too...

Oh how I needed a chuckle today, love this thread. []
 
Lucy will not jump up into the truck she'll just go half way with her front 2 paws up and then turn around and look at you to boost her in, but she jumps down with ease and she's such a light weight at 95lbs.
 
Zoe has a thing for toilet paper if you don't have a huge chunck taken out of the middle it it will be gone and hidden in the back of her crate. Doesn't work to just close the bathroom door because she can open it. So now we just have a bell on the door that gives the thief away.

Slick is SO SHINY! I need a  black dog.....

Emma has a trashcan habit. I'm cheap, so I refuse (for three years, now!) to buy one with a lid. The one I have is perfectly fine. We're working on it, but she still does it, on occasion. The other night, she stole food off of the table. In her defense, though, it was the end of her first 24 hour fast, and I was making dog food, so it was obviously time to eat.  Emma also likes boys (boy dogs, not boy people!). A lot. In public, on occasion. You should see the looks you get when your dog is standing UNDER a dog four times her size, licking and humping to her heart's content. LOL.

Teenie is horribly bitch aggressive. She also has a terribly uncontrolled prey drive. And she's not exactly house trained. Far from perfect, but absolutely adorable, and SO SWEET[] I don't know how to deal with her, most of the time, because she's just a great big pile of issues, but I love her dearly.

ETA: Both have developed the habit of HOWLING when I crate them. It's delightful, when there's friends over, and I crate them. They sing for us[]

This is way too much fun! 
 
I Love Slick on the coffee table.  It doesn't even look comfortable!

When the pom wants something, he will stare at me until he gets it.  A 5 hour stare is a bit discomforting. He has the bark from hell.  And he goes into weird circles and yapping when someone goes in or out a door.

Zeus is just a freak....I never know how he will act at any given moment.  Even after 12 years.

Now that I think about it...they are both freaks. The pom is just a predictable freak.

ORIGINAL: twelvepaws

This is way too much fun! 

I Love Slick on the coffee table.  It doesn't even look comfortable!

 
I know, right?  It can't be comfy.  I believe the appeal is the *naughty*, he lives to be naughty.   I think this is a great thread!  No-one has a perfect dog and confessing feels so good!  []

I love the picture of Slick on the coffee table. I know exactly how to change this bad habit. Start calling it a trick. Problem solved.

But wait, there's more!

Marlowe is an outrageous begger, which we're still trying to figure out becuase he has never, not once, recieved food from the table. He's fairly unobtrusive about it but he will sit next to you or lay next to you and make this sound: "eeeeeehhhhhhnnnnnnnn" the entire time you're eating. He can also hear a can or bag being opened up from anywhere in our three story house. He also is a little bit jumpy-uppy. Much improved from when he originally came home to us, but he will still try it with guests for a minute. He knows not to do it with me. DH actively encourages it by turning the jumping into a big "push around the doggies" game. [:@] He also has to smell every inch of your body, if you're a guest or if you've been out for a few hours. He particularily needs to smell your face. All parts of your face. He'll nudge my glasses aside so he can sniff my eyeballs. Ears, nostrils, mouth, top of your head. He must get a whiff of it all. Which is fine when we're snuggling and he wants to sniff a little. It's really not so great when guests come over, sit on the couch and are then confronted with a little back dog on his hind legs with his paws in their laps pressing his cold wet nose to every inch of their face. Well, at least he doesn't lick!

Conrad has pretentions of being a Ferocious Gaurd Dog. He has to bark and growl at every person who walks by the house, yet if they actually come into the house he's all friendly greetings and happy wags. If he doesn't hear the person coming in the front door, he won't even bother getting up to investigate. He's incredibly concerned about the things that happen in the street but totally blase about strangers trotting about inside his house. He enjoys laying on our bed in the evenings, which is fine except he has to push all the blankets aside so he's getting his ample hair on the fitted sheet and pillow cases.

My dogs are absolutely perfect!!!
 
Human reaction to their perfect DOG behavior is mixed.

ORIGINAL: bunni

I love the picture of Slick on the coffee table. I know exactly how to change this bad habit. Start calling it a trick. Problem solved.

 
You are correct my friend... I guess I should add STUBBORN to my list of imperfections.  He does what he wants, when he wants to do it.  He will NOT get on the coffee table when asked to.

Zeus is a closet alcoholic.

He is always "accidently" knocking his Daddy's beer over and lapping it up.

Then looking all surprised and innocent about it.

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This thread really has me LOL
Cressida you are lucky Bugsy must LICK people - has to happen
Slick that just ain't right

Another Bugsy habit is desk surfing for receipts loves to eat them. He is obsessed with DH's reading glasses, no matter where he hides them Bugsy finds them