Man, I wish I could describe what MoMo does. It is the funniest thing I've ever seen any animal do. We'll be eating dinner or whatever and you'll hear this "thud". You look over at him and he's lying on his side. It looks like he is having a seizure. It's really hard to explain what it looks like. He puts his front paws together, arches his back stretching his body out, and it looks like he is waving with both paws really fast. Anyway, everyone thought it was "cute", or funny. So...I taught him how to do it on command....almost.

When I have his full attention and say, "paws" he'll stand up on his hind legs and do "paws". I can also put my hand under the throw rug in the living room and move it around like it's a mouse. He pounces on my hind like a cat and tries to dig to my hand. I was in tears just last night playing with that idiot.
Aren't animals great? With that being said I have this to say about dogs, my wife saw a coffee cup one time and it said something like:

"If you've never owned a dog, it doesn't mean your boring, but your life might not be"

 

I have a 2 yr. old chocolate lab who thinks the best way to get our attention when she is ready to come back in is to throw herself into the sliding glass door. This behavior leads me to beleive she is dumb, yet whenever I mow the lawn, she knows exactly where to place her tennis ball on the ground so that I have to stop mowing and pick up the ball and throw it elsewhere. This rountine goes on for quite sometime. Sometimes I think I am the one getting trained.....

 

Sommersaults on the bed. Repeatedly. Weird.

 

Our Golden Retriever/Collie mix has a habit of unlocking the door. If the deadbolt is thrown, then it is a no go. Otherwise, she will open the regular door, and then hit the screen door latch with a paw and away she goes. This also applies to the sliding glass door. She will reach up with the paw, paw at the lock until it unlocks, then open it a little. Then the nose opens the door the rest of the way and away she goes…. I have had to put bars in the tracks of the sliders just to keep the dog in. We have been thinking about renaming her Houdini. She stays around our area so that is not a problem, but just like the kids, she will not close the door after her. Many times I have come home and the dog is laying on the front porch with the backdoor open. Our heating/AC bills have definitely gone up.

The other strange thing she will do is lay on the coffee table in the family room. Who knows why, but she does look comfortable.

Woof
Bowser

 

I had to put my cat down just before Christmas last year. She followed me everywhere, like a dog. She was constantly in my lap. She was clumsy, not very inteligent, drooled, drank out of the toilet, and came when you called "come here puppy". She was my dog.
Sure do miss her.

 

I hate that for you.

My wife and I each have a cat. I have Ben, and she has Jerry. We named em after the ice cream. I dont know what we'll do when they are gone.

 

Molly, my yellow lab LOVES to ride the golf cart. She will run from the house to the shop, just to ride back to the house. Then if we are in shop working, she will sleep on the seat of one of the golf carts so that she doesnt miss a ride. She will also sit right in front of the TV to get my attention if she wants to play, go out, or wants a treat. It doesnt matter how much I tell her to move she knows that if she gets in front of the TV, she will get my attention. Another thing she likes to do is if I am on the phone alot and she wants attention, as soon as I put it down, she will grab it and run off. She has never chewed one of them up, she just wants to be chased for it. She is so funny.

Here she is waiting for a ride:

 

Monkey, I have a question about your lab.

Was it a nightmare to house train her? I miss my Sadie, and I am thinking about getting another lab, but I remember what she did to my back yard, and I dont want that to happen to the inside of the house.

 

my dog gets scared when you change the channel on the tv. she runs away with her tail between her legs. she is also scared of the furnace vents and hardwood floors. if i throw hew tennis ball on hardwood or near a furnace vent she just cries untill you go get it for her.

 

That's actually cute.








I cant believe I am posting that.

 

No, she was no trouble to house train. She actually trained herself. She only pee'ed one time in the house and I spanked her and put her outside. She never did it again. She also never chewed anything up at my house (other than her toys) but until a few months ago (she will be 2 in November) she would chew up things at my dads house during the day. Water hoses, shrubs, UPS packages, you name it. She has since stopped that. I think one thing that is good for her is that we have 22 acres that she runs on with my dads dog. She is the best dog I have ever had and to think I didnt even want her. They say that pets chose their owners and she sure did.

 

That's awesome. I do miss Sadie. There isn't a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about her. I wont be able to replace her, but I can at least find another buddy. The next one I get will have to stay inside while we are at work.

 

My dog prior to this one had two crazy things she did. The first one was that she used to climb the ladder to the pool and just dive in at all times. All of a sudden you would hear this big splash and there she was. Swimming around like she owned the pool. The second weird thing she did was bite off your toenails. You couldn't clip your nails in front of her, she would just take over.

I miss her.

 

I need to take a pic of my dog Cissy (half lab and half pit)... She was hit by a car before I got her and now has joint problems in her back legs. She sits with her feet flung out BEHIND her (on her knees). I'll post up a pic when I get home from work. It's the weirdest thing you ever saw.

 

My parents have a dog (well three dogs) but the golden retriever loves to get the food scraps from supper in his breakfast bowl, but if there are green beans he will actually spit them back out and by the time he is done there is only a little pile of grean beans left at the bottom. He's not above eating s$!t but grean beans are out of the question.