How does your dog ask for attention?

Tootsie, is a nudger which doesn't get her any attention because its pushy and rude. She is also a big time talker, which sounds like a baby dinosaur and as hard as I try to ignore it, I always end up smiling and usually laughing. Very effective for her.

Beauty will just sit and stare when she wants something - usually when I've been on the computer too long. If that doesn't work, she'll give me her paw, or try nudging/pawing any moveable object nearby. She knows that will get me to come over and stop her. 

If she needs to wake me up to go outside, she "talks", grumbles, whines, and even throws herself against the bed hard enough to shake the frame.

My two full goldens will work and work at getting their head under your hand.  The do the nudge, push, and actual "nose shove' if you keep ignoring them.  now our golden mix also does the nose bit, but she is extremely vocal.  i have never known a dog with so many differnt sounds as she can  make.  She really appears to be trying to talk.

Flem is the nudger expert in the evening when I am on the computer at food time. She will first come and sit by me then try the stare and finally, if I do not get it, nudge so that I absolutely cannot go on typing. Since it is pretty rude, I turn my back on her and ignore her until she is back into the sit and stare mode (works most of the time). When she feels she needs some petting, she either talks, rolls around on her back with legs and tail flailing or, if outside, starts doing some tumbling head over tail.
 
Spip is the high-pitch one-woof caller. She lets us know where she is and that she would like some company. The only one she usually gets is Flem's who then comes and reports to us about Spip whereabouts.
 
For going outside to take care of business, Spip will go to the door and bark once (pretty convenient); Flem will pace from the door to wherever we are (much less clear if we cannot see the door).
 
All in all, they keep the attention getting behaviors pretty low. Probably because they know that they will get attention regularly during the day without having to ask for it.

Conrad tries to force a pet by placing his head directly under your hand and pushing upwards. It's so unobtrusive that sometimes you don't even realize what's going on until you look down and you notice that somehow you seem to be petting a dog. I try not to give in to it when he does it because it goes against our general house NILIF policy, but he can be really sneaky about it, like when you're in the middle of a conversation and paying attention to other things. He's also really pawsy. When he gets really worked up he'll start with the smacking. Which absolutely is unacceptable and generally gets his banished from the area.

Marlowe just climbs up in to your lap like it's totally the most natural thing in the world for a 55 lb. dog to be sitting in your lap. Also with the staring and the groaning.

Wolfgang steals things then shakes them, especially for strangers. Sofa cushions, gloves, underwear, you name it.
 
If I'm not consistent with ignoring it, Floyd nudges. Otherwise he paces.
 
Tasha barks and does her play growls. She also play bows.

Baby will jump on us, or in our laps then does a butt wiggle, meaning , "Give a good scratch!"  Rex just plants his paw on one of our feet.

Pharaohs refuse to be ignored so it usually begins (yes begins) with one of them climbing into my lap.  This then progresses into perching on my legs with their front paws and standing as straightly as possible so that whatever I was looking at is not completely obscured from my vision. 
 
The next step is the ear molestation.  One or both dogs will begin licking and nibbling the ears.  When that is ignored I get the whine.  Xerxes will sit next to me and place his paw on my leg and begin the whine.  Gaia goes into a play bow and barks, and barks...and barks... and barks.
 
If for some reason none of these garner my attention Xerxes will do one of the following:  He will get disgusted and begin rubbing his head on the carpet as if to say "this carpet doesn't smell like a predator."  If that doesn't work, he will find something to steal.  For instance:  A couple of weeks ago I'm sitting in my easy chair watching the hockey game-Xerxes runs into the room swinging something back and forth, he jumps on the bed and Gaia chases him, trying to get whatever it is in his mouth.  I look again after I see a glint of light.  In his mouth is one of my kitchen knives, not a paring knife, not a steak knive, but a 12 inch blade butcher knife.
 
To get it he had to jump over a 4 foot barrier to get into the kitchen, pull the knife out of the kitchen sink and jump back over the barrier and then run around with the knife.  Now THAT will grab your attention, won't it?

Oh my goodness, did anyone get cut???  I would definately pay attention to that![sm=no%20no%20smiley.gif]

ORIGINAL: rexandbaby

Oh my goodness, did anyone get cut???  I would definately pay attention to that![sm=no%20no%20smiley.gif]

 
No cuts or wounds...just me, standing in shock with two dogs that thought I took their favorite toy away from them.  Needless to say everything goes directly into the dishwasher now.

OMG Ed!!

OMG knife-wielding pharoh's!  That would most certaintly get my attention.  

Sam will grab a toy and ram it into your crotch or leg, but usually the crotch.  I have to warn everyone that comes over.  Sometimes he bites down on the toy to make it squeek while ramming it into the back of my legs and will sometimes pintch my skin. OUCH!

ORIGINAL: glenmar
Mine are masters of the stare....

 
I hate the stare.  Drizzle does that all the time.  Blizzard is the only one that is physical.  She noses under my hand and lift the hand up over her head.  I give her a head rub and when I pat her, she knows its over and goes away.  If she comes back, I raise my hands over my head and she gets the message and goes away.

   A few days ago I was some putting boxes in the basement for storage. When I started back up the stairs after taking the first box down, I saw Jessie's "lambie" about halfway down the stairs; she was standing at the top of the stairs loooking down. I gave her the toy and she wanted to go out but I didn't let her out because it was raining. I was on my way up after putting another box in the basement and lambie was on the stairs again. I gave it to Jessie and let her outside. She immediately spun around, facing the door, and did a play bow. I told her we couldn't play because it was raining. She did another play bow, so we played keep away for a little while; it wasn't raining that hard.
She also does the nudging with that cold wet nose. When DH or I am sitting in a chair, she will sit in front of us and firmly lean the side of her head against our legs; if we ignore that, she'll do it again only harder. Once we start petting her, she'll slide down to the floor and lay on our feet. She steals socks, slippers, hats, or gloves and prances around shaking them wanting us to chase her. If the "out" command doesn't work we say "corner" and she drops what she has immediately; she hates to sit in the corner. She also waves to be petted.