First of all, all of you people giving your dogs your pizza crusts are crazy! That's the best part of a good pizza!
Reading some of these lists I feel like I have quite a few rules compared to a lot of you, but perhaps even those might be considered 'wrong'.
I do allow Journey to jump on the couch uninvited, because they way she does it is hilarious. I don't, however, allow her to take a flying leap from a stand still onto my head when I'm sitting somewhere anymore... ouch.
I have double standards. The hairy dogs get away with far more than the Dobermans do, because they're less conspicuous and not pushy about stuff. I don't purposely 'spoil' Dance and Journ in comparison to Keira and Ripley, but it's largely dependent on their personalities/temperaments as to how many and what rules must be followed.
I am like the NILIF police. I like my dogs to focus and do something before allowing them to have food or enter/exit the house. Otherwise the Dobermans turn into shaking, screeching, bug-eyed messes of chaos and I can't stand it. So, NILIF just makes life easier.
I don't care that Dance jumps on people anymore. She's six now, it's never going to stop, and she's not heavy or rude about it, so who cares.
I am also the 'one command only' police. I accidentally double command my dogs sometimes, but I try really hard not to. My biggest one is "Down. I said lay down. Right now! All the way." But that's just in every day life. When we're training, they get one chance... and somehow they seem to know this. If they don't do what I asked, I have no problem making them do it. Not in a mean way, but I don't mind giving a reminder.
I raise my voice too much sometimes. Not totally yelling, but louder than I probably need to be. But sometimes if I'm frustrated, getting loud with them works. It's quick and easy and gets the result I want without much effort.
I say "no" and "ah-ah" and "knock it off" and "don't even think about it" an awful lot, too haha. And "are you kidding me?!". "Seriously?!". I love my dogs, but they do drive me nuts on occassion.
I do correct my dogs. I train positively and try to do everything in a positive manner, but there are times when a correction is, IMO, warranted and necessary. It's never harsh or over the top, but it still happens. And again, is largely dependent on the dog. Dance and Journey are pretty easy and I don't know that Journey's really been corrected for anything other than a "no", and Dance very rarely has been either.
My dogs get a good run once a week, on a day off. During the work week, while I don't do nothing with them, I don't tend to do a whole lot with my dogs either. I've tried making myself get up extra early to do more with them, but that never lasts, and by the end of the work day, I'm exhausted and only have a couple of hours before bed. But my dogs don't seem to care.
And this seems weird to a lot of people, but I ignore my dogs when I get home. If I had just one or two dogs, I probably wouldn't, but three or four super crazy excited dogs overwhelms me and just feels like chaos. So I ignore everyone for 10 minutes and then go say hello.
When I'm playing with and training Journey, and I don't have a tug, I let her jump all over and 'bite' me. Probably not a good thing, but she doesn't leave holes and wrestling rough is like her biggest reward. She quits when I tell her enough and only does this with me, and only when I initiate it.
And yes, I too allow my dogs to tug on their leashes. It's the one 'toy' I always have available when I'm out. I want to be able to use it for rewards and play.
My dogs are not restrained in the car. I wish they were, but it's not my car. When I get my own car, they will be, but right now, they can't be.
I give my dogs leftovers and table scraps all the time as long as it's nothing dangerous.
I don't switch foods slowly either. I used to, but I've since found that switching immediately actually works better for us.
I don't panic if my dogs are throwing up or have diarrhea or something. Lots of people seem to rush to the vet for every little thing, and I just don't. I figure there'll be other signs and I usually know why they're sick anyway (eating too many leaves and grass, empty stomach, ate too much of something, fed a new treat that didn't agree, etc.).
Very rarely do I leash walk my dogs. It's just not much fun for me or the dogs and by the time I get home, the dogs don't act like they even had any exercise at all.
I take my dogs to dog parks. Calgary has some pretty large parks, and we tend to stay away from really busy areas within those parks. But if I want to run my dogs off leash, a dog park really is the only place to do so without risking a fine. Although there is at least one place you can drive out of the city to and pay to use for a while alone.