Is there anything about your dog that really irritates you?

[Gypsydals]

And they all scream in the car. Winston started it, then Keira learned from him, then Dance learned from her, and Ripley learned from both girls. It's an endless, evil cycle. When they were little we took plenty of 1:1 car rides to try and avoid anybody feeding off another dog's bad behaviour, but it obviously didn't work. Even if they're alone now they'll whine... which is still better than all 3 screeching I suppose.

This is SOOOOOOOOoo good to know. LOL It reminds me NOt to do any "together" trips when I get the new puppy. One screaming/whining dog in the car is enough.


Things that Ivan does that drives me nuts.
Screams/whines/makes all sorts of weird noises in the car. It doesn't matter how long or short the trip is. Ever travel 9 hours in a car with a dog that does that?? So much fun when out of every hour hes only quiet for about 15 to 20 minutes. Any change you do, starts him up again.
Whining when ever I open the garage door, move a crate out there, move the x-pens or anything that pertains to us going somewhere. Everyone else can open that door and hes quiet, BUT me.
His dislike of people in the house and his dislike of the son.
His lack of wanting to be outside.
Thinking that if I grab anything besides my purse, he has to go with me when I leave.
But for all his quirks, I do love him.

 

[Cheza]

Ugh the Dane lip-licking blerggggh yuck. They all do that. At night. All night.

Cheza - Whines. Slow leak type of whine. In the car, at home, whenever one of us is out of her sight. Also sings the blues obnoxiously when we leave her home alone. Growls when any other dog so much as touches her when she's laying down and then walks away in a huff. Barks at nothing, loudly. Barks like an insane maniac at the door.

Lyra - Excessive derp. She really is just an idiot. Runs away off leash, is well aware of me signing to her to "come", doesn't care. Loves everything that moves. Grunts like a pig but it's better than whining.

Nel - She freaks out at the smallest thing and then becomes a 135lb ping pong ball. Somehow does fantastic in the show ring, she's a perfect ambassador in public, sleeps in the car like a champ. Home? Not so much. Licks excessively and makes my skin crawl (huge jowls).

 

[StillandSilent]

I forgot to mention that Gambit has a shriek that could shatter glass. He usually saves it for when we drive past the daycare or he sees his favorite people but can't get to them, but it is horrible! Think someone yanking out his toenails horrible.

Unfortunatly, I've heard the coyotes at the nature center make that exact noise to express excitement, so I'm pretty sure it's not a behavior I can do much about.

 

[Shai]

Kim has First Dog Prerogative -- she can do no wrong

Mira actually never annoys me either. Her extreme excitement and bounciness occasionally drives hubby a little nuts though.

Webster...I just really wish he would cut out the constant food surfing. If it's out, it's his. If it's in a bag in another bag in a tuperware in a backpack hanging from a hook, it's his (not an exaggeration, he must've stood on his hind legs on the bench nearby to reach, but he chewed out the bottom of the backpack til the contents spilled to the floor, then got into the containers and ate the food). If he's left alone in the house he will have the trashcan unblocked, tipped, and emptied within 10 minutes. If the girls are with him he will not do this...presumably either Kim the Rulemaster prevents it or he just knows the girls will steal his spoils. It doesn't even need to be food...he will tunnel through anything to get to anything that may have at some time or another come in contact with food. We mostly just manage it but last week he climbed onto my desk to reach the top of the fish tank and ate the new fish flake food...I mean come on! I have to laugh but at the same time it just gets old too.

 

[Toller_08]

Ugh the Dane lip-licking blerggggh yuck. They all do that. At night. All night.

This!! Obviously the Dobes don't have quite as much lip as a Dane, but they're both pretty sloppy. Especially Ripley. He often wakes me up in the middle of the night licking. I don't know why, but there is just something about that particular noise that drives me nuts.

 

[Red.Apricot]

Elsie constantly comes up with new things to do that irritate me. Currently, she's decided that if I'm eating something, she's allowed to poke it. WHY? That has NEVER been allowed. No one has EVER caved because she touched their pizza.

Then she barks when you tell her to go do something else.

 

[Shai]

No one has EVER caved because she touched their pizza.

The way you said that cracked me up for some reason lol

 

[Red.Apricot]

The way you said that cracked me up for some reason lol

I'm glad. She's such a toad sometimes--she isn't actually trying to take the food, she just wants to touch it, and then she steps back and grins like she's done something really great.

I wonder, now that I've written this, if it's because we've been working with the target stick a lot lately.

 

[Ratboy]

King-
1. Obsessed with going over the fence to the next door neighbor's. He waited until he was almost 10 to decide to start doing this. If the neighbor's dogs aren't there, or (rarely) the doggy door into the house is closed, he will go over the fence again, and take off. He might come back to me, he might not. Depends on his mood. He's not trustworthy at all outside, climbing or jumping the fence is a certainty, and yes, he's 2 months away from 13 years old, and he can still jump the fence!
2. His grabbing food. He grabs food out of my hand, hard! This started with his Cushing's disease, but even after he became symptom free, he hasn't stopped with his counter surfing, trash diving, and eating stuff that for over 10 years he wouldn't touch, like oranges, carrots, and snow peas. He loves oranges.
3. His totally catlike "I don't care what you want, I'm done with you!" habit of just walking away from someone once he decides to. He comes up and wants to have his chin rubbed, and will push, woodpecker, and sometimes "talk" at you to make you do it. At a certain point, he just leaves. He will not come back, no matter how you call him. He just walks off, and plops down, usually about 10-15 feet away, with his back to you and sigh if you call him.

Molly-
1. Her total inability to ever really relax. She never sleeps more than a couple of hours at a time, and walks the house in between naps, licking her lips and panting. She does sleep a lot better than when she was young, back then she rarely slept at all, and King used to get even angrier at her than I did when she would come into the bedroom and stare at me and pant. King on the other hand, was a dream come true as a pup, he would sleep all night from the day we got them, 8-10 hours straight, if Molly would leave him alone.

 

[Specsy]

Bella- She's a general pain in the butt. She has an urge to kill EVERYTHING. Other dog? Kill. Chicken? Kill. Human baby? Kill. Lizard? Kill. She is kill, kill, kill and once she see's the thing and I remove her from the situation, for example, she sees a chicken in a chicken hock, I walk her away from it and we are AGES away from it, she will whine and pant and pull on the leash or turn around in circles if she isn't on leash. She is annoying, it pisses me off SO much.

Leo- He pokes all the food he can reach with his nose. WHAT THE HECK?! I like his *nose poke* MINE! He doesn't get whatever he pokes his nose onto so I don't know what the fascination is.

Felda- She walks into a room and just whines or cries... Just random. No reason at all. WHY?

 

[Hillside]

Saga has a total inability to focus on pooping once we get outside of there are squirrels. Or birds. Or neighborhood cats. It doesn't matter how long we stand out there either, once the distraction has been sighted, there is no chance of pooping. Also, she is a spot thief. She will be all pacey and not settled and I will tell her to cram it, but no, she will just stand and stare at me. Once I get up to go to the other room/outside/whatever, she will settle oh so comfortably into MY spot. Bitch.

 

[Cinnamon00]

The whinning and yappin when she wants attention... oh and also on car rides when she knows where she's going and she freaks out lol, hates to go to the groomers and it's a headache to calm her down on the way. Once she's picked up ,though she either sleeps like a log on the car ride back or enjoys the ride lol.

 

[JessLough]

The whining. OH MY GOD THE WHINING.

Also, the fact that she stares at you until you put the pillow the way she likes it and jumps on the couch. Staring is SO RUDE.