Strange things your pets do...

MossRoad · Sep 26, 2020

Jstpssng said:
This site really, REALLY needs a coffee spewing emoji!!! :laughing:

This was before the common home having video equipment, and the dog got too old to travel before David Letterman started doing Stupid Pet Tricks.

How I found out he could sneeze was I was trying to teach him to bark on the command SPEAK! I noticed that when I told him to speak, the first time he'd sneeze really hard, then start barking. If I told him to speak again, he'd just bark. I figured out that if he hadn't barked for several hours, he had to sneeze once or twice before he started barking, and then I guess his nose was cleared out, because he'd then just bark like a normal dog.

So I changed SPEAK to SNEEZE and I'd say "Dog, SNEEZE!" (his name was Dog) and he'd sneeze. :laughing: People would react so funny to that, some looking like they didn't see what they just saw. They'd ask me to have him do it again and I'd always say "He never does the same trick twice." and move on to his other tricks. Always good for a laugh.

I miss that dog. He was my first dog. I found him as a stray when I was maybe 18 years old. He was just so nice. I tried for several months to locate his owner, putting ad in the papers and posted FOUND signs around the neighborhood, but no one claimed him. I had him for 14 years before he passed away.

I named him after the dog in the John Wayne movie Big Jake.

CobyRupert · Sep 27, 2020

Growing up my first tractor driving experience was to rake fields of hay. Didn’t matter if the field took 45 minutes or 3 hours to rake, in sight, or out of sight from the house, our dog would come running out to the field when I was finishing the last windrow and escort me back to the house.

Whidbey · Sep 28, 2020

I have two Jack Russells and one is a hunter specializing in snakes. We brought him in one night and he was agitated and drooling a little bit. I went out with a flashlight and found a four foot copperhead he had torn to pieces. Apparently the snake had bitten him on the tongue. I gave him some pain medication and took him to the vet the next morning. I wish he would not do that!

bunyip · Oct 2, 2020

A Corgi we had used to lift HER leg to pee.

MossRoad · Oct 2, 2020

Was driving with my wife the other day and she sneezed. That made me recall we had a cat that would bless you if you sneezed.

You sneeze, the cat looks at you and did one of those quick stutter meows. He never made that noise at anything other than birds out the window, or when someone sneezed. He did it pretty much every time someone would sneeze. You could even do a fake sneeze and he'd do it. :laughing:

Dftodd · Oct 2, 2020

bunyip said:
A Corgi we had used to lift HER leg to pee.

Neighbors chihuahua would balance it self on it's front legs with it's back legs and bottom up over it's head to pee.

Apparently it's common when I witnessed another neighbors chihuahua doing the same thing.

Jstpssng · Oct 2, 2020

To the best of my knowledge Ruger is a full blooded lab, he apparently came from someplace which breeds therapy dogs and he flunked. (They can tell at 6 weeks if the puppy is what they want to spend time and money on.) Yet on the rare occasion that I leave him home he sounds just like a husky... about the time I get to the truck I start hearing "Aoooo. Aoooo", as he cries about being left behind.

Dftodd · Oct 2, 2020

Jstpssng said:
To the best of my knowledge Ruger is a full blooded lab, he apparently came from someplace which breeds therapy dogs and he flunked. (They can tell at 6 weeks if the puppy is what they want to spend time and money on.) Yet on the rare occasion that I leave him home he sounds just like a husky... about the time I get to the truck I start hearing "Aoooo. Aoooo", as he cries about being left behind.

Trainers can pick up on personalities pretty quickly.

Our shepherds trainer imports German shepherds from a breeder in Finland. He gets a litter at a time.

He was training for personal protection exclusively but ran into the issue that some weren't suited for it. So he branched out and got certified for service dogs as well.

He sells the pups with training included for around $1,800.

Jstpssng · Oct 5, 2020

Not to turn this into an "R" rated forum but I just went up to put the turkeys in, with my 9 1/2 YO dog who I had neutered when I got him at 1 YO. I was rather shocked and dismayed went he tried to mount not one, but several of my 25 lb birds.