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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #30 on: April 01, 2020, 04:11:00 pm »
YDD has been housetraining her puppy.  They've hung bells at the back door and let her out when she rattles the bells. 

Yesterday, when she sat down with the kids for lunch, she heard the bells ring and got up to let the puppy out. As she approached the door, puppy ran around her, got up on her chair at the table and was reaching for YDD's lunch (the kids stopped her). 

This process was repeated with GS trying to let the puppy out.  They did physically place her outside for the rest of lunchtime.

That is a scary smart dog!
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #31 on: April 01, 2020, 04:30:15 pm »
A while back my laberdoodle was coughing a lot. My husband was concerned until he took him out and noticed paper towels in his poop! Apparently they are very absorbent.  Notice a trend with my dog?
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #32 on: April 01, 2020, 04:37:22 pm »
You don't dare leave ANYthing on the floor or the coffee table!

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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #33 on: April 01, 2020, 07:08:18 pm »
I've been baking bread.  I had 6 loaves in a shopping bin on the table.  DH left his chair out (could have just as easily been me).  I noticed that there were only 5 loaves in the bin.  I went to ask DH if he'd given a loaf to anyone.  Nope.  Hmmm...  I'm sure there were 6 but maybe there were only 5.

Came back out, heard crinkle, crinkle.  And found one of the dogs had grabbed a loaf and had eaten at least 1/3 of it.  Same dog who ate the better part of 1/2 a cherry pie a while back.  You'd think we'd learn not to leave food on the table and make sure to push all the chairs in...
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #34 on: April 02, 2020, 01:26:06 pm »
YDD has been housetraining her puppy.  They've hung bells at the back door and let her out when she rattles the bells. 

Yesterday, when she sat down with the kids for lunch, she heard the bells ring and got up to let the puppy out. As she approached the door, puppy ran around her, got up on her chair at the table and was reaching for YDD's lunch (the kids stopped her). 

This process was repeated with GS trying to let the puppy out.  They did physically place her outside for the rest of lunchtime.

Oooh, this one's smart.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #35 on: April 02, 2020, 01:43:19 pm »
So our youngest cat, Marmalade, is very very smart and has been trained to ring a set of sleigh bells hanging on our back door to go out (as opposed to crying indiscriminately for food, water, pets, getting his favorite toy out from under yet another piece of furniture). The older cats have taken note of this and will also do it (but not terribly consistently).

This system works pretty well.... except for the middle of the night when he’s decided he’d like a snack and this is a good way to get one of the horizontal bodies vertical.

His modification works too, since I’m usually not awake enough to reason out what’s going on and get up to find out. I’m really not too sure just who has trained whom.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #36 on: April 02, 2020, 02:43:13 pm »
So our youngest cat, Marmalade, is very very smart and has been trained to ring a set of sleigh bells hanging on our back door to go out (as opposed to crying indiscriminately for food, water, pets, getting his favorite toy out from under yet another piece of furniture). The older cats have taken note of this and will also do it (but not terribly consistently).

This system works pretty well.... except for the middle of the night when he’s decided he’d like a snack and this is a good way to get one of the horizontal bodies vertical.

His modification works too, since I’m usually not awake enough to reason out what’s going on and get up to find out. I’m really not too sure just who has trained whom.

We started that with our pup. He could nose the bells and someone would get up to let him out. Now he's 16 months old, and has found out that if rings the bells, someone will get up and go to the door to open it. Half the time he dodges around them and steals their chair.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #37 on: April 02, 2020, 07:51:18 pm »
We went to Busch gardens  one year and our hotel was a revamped motor lodge. We brought our golden retriever.  Unfortunately he was smart enough to know how doors worked. He figured out if he jumped up and hit the door handle he could open the door.
  We were sitting in our car ready to start our day and was putting the address in our gps. Thankfully we did, because a minute later our dog trotted by our car window saw us and jumped up to the car window. 

 Fortunately the park had a kennel service!
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« Reply #38 on: April 02, 2020, 09:02:00 pm »

 ...   We were sitting in our car ready to start our day and was putting the address in our gps. Thankfully we did, because a minute later our dog trotted by our car window saw us and jumped up to the car window.  ...



"Hey, Mom and Dad!  You forgot ME!"

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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #39 on: April 04, 2020, 06:57:06 pm »
Had a Great Dane lab mix growing up. One night my brother, sister and I were eating popcorn, but not sharing with him. He sat up, looked out the picture window and barked a couple times. We all sat up to see what he was barking at, and he then drove into the popcorn bowl to help himself.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #40 on: April 04, 2020, 08:00:48 pm »
Our dogs get lots of outside time in the fenced in yard.  And we take them for at least one fairly long walk every day.  Without fail, Wolfie drops a load on the walk.  (He was also the bread thief.)  Take him to the vet?  Drops a load in the lobby before getting into the exam room.  Take him to the groomer?  He drops a load inside, before DH and I can even get out the door after leaving them with the groomer.  While it is good he does his thing on walks, we're starting to call him 'The Inappropriate Pooper'.   ;D

His other nickname is 'The Seat Stealer'.  As soon as you get up to do anything, he steals your seat on the couch.  He will move when you come back but you practically have to sit on him to get him out of the road.  And yet another nickname is 'The Insistent One'.  He insists on being petted sometimes.  You can be sitting, typing on the computer, and all of a sudden, you have a nose under your arm, followed by the puppy dog eyes.
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #41 on: July 02, 2020, 07:36:12 pm »
YDD has been housetraining her puppy.  They've hung bells at the back door and let her out when she rattles the bells. 

Yesterday, when she sat down with the kids for lunch, she heard the bells ring and got up to let the puppy out. As she approached the door, puppy ran around her, got up on her chair at the table and was reaching for YDD's lunch (the kids stopped her). 

This process was repeated with GS trying to let the puppy out.  They did physically place her outside for the rest of lunchtime.

What breed is the pup? She does sound scary smart!

As a teen I had a rat terrier given to me by a classmate. Freddie was stolen out of our yard by persons unknown (the dognapping was witnessed by the gent painting our house, who declined to do anything to help us find the dog, since he disliked dogs to start with.  >:( )

Some weeks later, Mom's boss gave us a puppy to make us feel better (Freddie was never found) House painter had gotten ill in the interim and had only recently returned to work. New pup was a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd, very smart, to the extent he got bored and started inventing ways to entertain himself.  ( I have several Johnny stories lol )

Painter had climbed up on the roof for some reason, and had left his ladder propped against the house with the base sitting inside the section of the yard that was fenced-where Johnny lived. We got back from school to discover that Johnny had knocked the ladder down and the painter had been stuck on the roof for a good hour. (Parents were both at work)

Painter was feeling very sheepish by this point and asked if we could prop his ladder back up. I said sure, just as soon as you apologise for letting my other dog get stolen. He did, we propped up the ladder and pointed out he might not want to set the base of it inside the fence again. Dude was so mortified he promptly knocked money off his fees and came back the next day with dog treats for Johnny. who mostly left him alone after that, save for knocking over a large bucket of paint. (I swear, I have no idea how he escaped the yard ;) )
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #42 on: July 02, 2020, 10:14:18 pm »
New pup was a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd, very smart, to the extent he got bored and started inventing ways to entertain himself.  ( I have several Johnny stories lol )

Please share them! ;D
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Re: Pet hi-jinks
« Reply #43 on: July 03, 2020, 08:52:44 am »
New pup was a mix of Lab and Aussie Shepherd, very smart, to the extent he got bored and started inventing ways to entertain himself.  ( I have several Johnny stories lol )

Please share them! ;D

Labs and Aussies are on the list of intelligent dogs who need lots of entertainment to keep themselves out of trouble IIRC.

XRogue

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« Reply #44 on: July 03, 2020, 06:04:32 pm »
Quite correct, Peony! With pleasure, more stories!

Johnny observed us picking up fallen limbs before mowing (2 silver maples, a sycamore, 2 oak trees and 2 pecan trees in his fenced area) so he started picking them all up for us and stacking them neatly next to his doghouse. Then he would gnaw the branches down to sawdust and I presume ate a lot of said sawdust as it did not accumulate. He also ate the corners off the back porch steps and gnawed the door in his wooden doghouse bigger as he grew taller. In very small amounts, done gradually as he grew.

One day we had a bad heat wave. Johnny let himself out of the back yard, did a belly flop in the 4 foot deep goldfish pond. climbed out once he'd cooled off and latched himself back into the yard. No casualties among the goldfish, fortunately. :)

We got a mole infestation. Visilble cat's cradle of tunnels thru the yard.  Johnny got annoyed because he sunk a foot into a tunnel dashing after a squirrel (dog did a frontward rolling flip and landed on his back with no injury except to his digniteh) and proceeded to spend the next 2 weeks digging up mole tunnels. We'd look out a window and see him, nose to the ground, digging with both front paws going to left and right, digging out the tunnel all along the line. Eventually he'd trot back to the house and deposit a deceased mole by the steps. Never tried to eat one.  Not sure why they expired, but they had. Dad used to wish Sis and I were that good about picking up our socks.

Johnny also ate his plastic food and water bowls the first day. We ended up getting a food grade plastic bucket out and putting water in it, with a metal weight to hold it down. (first time we put the bucket out there without the weight, doggo decided to pick it up by the edge and dump all the water straight into his face. Thought it was a wonderful game. :) If you left the weight out, he kept doing it, too. ) 

Visited the store to get a new food bowl and upon realizing the pet section was out of large size metal bowl, we went to automotive and got a (new, ofc) galvanized aluminum oil pan for a food bowl. Went home, served Johnny his dinner. He came tearing up to the deck and realized he had never seen a bowl like that but IT HAD HIS LUNCH!  Cue doggo circling around it and barking at the pan for a couple minutes till he got used to it. Food bowl became his new fave toy. Johnny would run round the yard with the bowl in his teeth, held by the bottom edge so he wouldn't trip on it. So it was up in front of his eyes. Never ran into anything.

Also, the back deck was made of bricks, so he took up the habit of raking the bowl across the deck to make a rattling noise when he was hungry. Generally at 3 am under my parent's bedroom window. :D Dad would ask, Why does he do that? Standard reply was, he wants to be let out of dog jail.

Then there was the time he dug up the septic tank. No idea how. The fun part about that was, we'd thought we were on a sewer line and had been paying a sewer bill. For 4 years. Dad called and got a refund. Part of this was used to buy steaks for dinner. 4 for us, one for the dog. :)
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