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My dog is a dickhead

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coeurnoir · 05/04/2023 20:40

He's nearly 13 with a myriad of health issues, including osteoarthritis....and yet the dickhead "forgot" his advanced years yesterday and ran around the garden 3 times chasing cats, went up several steps to the garden from the patio....then demanded a walk.

Today he can barely move and needed an extra dose of painkillers.

Is it just my old man who's a dickhead?

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Cherrysoup · 05/04/2023 20:43

No, mine, also nearly 13, decides very regularly to dick off in the woods and not come back for several minutes. He's been going there since he was a baby and knows to wait at the gate to the lane, but fgs, dog, act your age!

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coeurnoir · 05/04/2023 20:44

Ahh yes, the selective deafness....

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QueenSmartypants · 05/04/2023 20:46

Lol my old boy is the same - both with forgetting his arthritis and selective deafness which he seems to have developed because he just can't be bothered to obey anymore 😄

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/04/2023 20:51

No, last weekend our 14 year old (15 in december), blind, thought he would repeatedly bounce on the grunty Octopus toy that we got (for the bigger younger dogs. He got a small foxy thing).... and wang it around by its head, repeatedly crashing into things and boinking off things because he is blind... then tried to jump on the sofa from a distance and missed and splatted on the floor instead, then got up and did two more laps with the octopus...

The next day says he is stiff and would like a pain killer please and a jumper on and some cuddles.

He also insists on sitting behind closed doors in the hopes that whoever opens it will magically know he is there and not smash him in the head - either that or he likes being boinked on the head? (We do try... we don't just slam doors open willynilly... but sometimes... mm!)

We put him on vitofyllin thinking it might help his cognitive processes... it has stopped him standing in the middle of the room gormlessly staring into, well, nothing since he cant see... but no, its just letting him make poor decisions much faster!

Theunamedcat · 05/04/2023 20:55

My friends dog ridiculously stiff ran around rolling in the grass legging it around the field was too stiff to get back in the car to go home daft sod

fairgame84 · 05/04/2023 20:55

My 12 year old keeps charging across the laminate then slipping and falling.
He's currently limping after attempting to jump over the baby bouncer and landing on top of it.
Most of the time he sleeps but gets random bursts of energy where he forgets he's an old man.

bizzywiththefizzy · 05/04/2023 21:27

QueenSmartypants · 05/04/2023 20:46

Lol my old boy is the same - both with forgetting his arthritis and selective deafness which he seems to have developed because he just can't be bothered to obey anymore 😄

I find once the dog gets past the age of about ten they tend to take the piss . Forget everything they have learned and bank on everyone saying it doesn't matter she/he's old and they get away with everything 🙄

Furrydogmum · 05/04/2023 21:29

No, my old lady is 13 and she has bursts of energy that render her incapacitated! She's ace!!

MortimerTheCat · 05/04/2023 21:44

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/04/2023 20:51

No, last weekend our 14 year old (15 in december), blind, thought he would repeatedly bounce on the grunty Octopus toy that we got (for the bigger younger dogs. He got a small foxy thing).... and wang it around by its head, repeatedly crashing into things and boinking off things because he is blind... then tried to jump on the sofa from a distance and missed and splatted on the floor instead, then got up and did two more laps with the octopus...

The next day says he is stiff and would like a pain killer please and a jumper on and some cuddles.

He also insists on sitting behind closed doors in the hopes that whoever opens it will magically know he is there and not smash him in the head - either that or he likes being boinked on the head? (We do try... we don't just slam doors open willynilly... but sometimes... mm!)

We put him on vitofyllin thinking it might help his cognitive processes... it has stopped him standing in the middle of the room gormlessly staring into, well, nothing since he cant see... but no, its just letting him make poor decisions much faster!

Your dog sounds ace. 😂

user1471453601 · 05/04/2023 21:49

Your old dogs sound just like me, an old human. I sometimes "forget" I cannot do something, and try it anyway 😁

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/04/2023 23:00

Won't let him read this, he's not ace he's a total nob. Just had to send DP out to fetch him out of the passionflower AGAIN, he goes to sniff, twirls around a bit then gets trapped, then just stands there hoping someone notice that a small black dog is lost in the back yard, getting darked on.

He could woof, he knows how, he's a Tibetan Terrier for fucks sake... 'SHOUT' is his default mode. Except when stuck.

Then he snuggles up at night and wants me to keep my hand on him at all times so he knows he's safe.. and then the stinky little piss-paws is forgiven everything he has ever done (which is quite a lot!)

QueenSmartypants · 06/04/2023 00:43

bizzywiththefizzy · 05/04/2023 21:27

I find once the dog gets past the age of about ten they tend to take the piss . Forget everything they have learned and bank on everyone saying it doesn't matter she/he's old and they get away with everything 🙄

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So true! 😆 he pretty much does what he wants these days, when he wants - he is very spoiled.

I don't regret it one bit.

bizzywiththefizzy · 06/04/2023 02:01

@QueenSmartypants It is true pretty much all the dogs I have ever had tend to go like this when they are getting on a bit, and the whole family are just like well she likes sleeping on my bed and she 's old etc etc .😆

SinnerBoy · 06/04/2023 02:02

My old Lab does the mad five minutes thing every now and then. She'll meet a dog she gets on with, go down on her front paws, then scad around in circles. Next few days, it's short walks only.

She's been through the wars, 4 years ago, she had pymetria, (spelling?) so an emergency hysterectomy and last January, an operation to remove a breast tumour.

She really picked up for a few months, but by autumn, she was plodding along, miles behind again.

peppermintteagirl · 06/04/2023 05:57

Yeah, my nearly-13 year old refuses to act her age (which I secretly love). She's currently having a great time humping her bed...

GoTeamTired · 06/04/2023 06:03

My young dog, as soon as I got out of bed this morning, she ambled over, without so much of a hello, stretched and lay on my side of the bed.

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coeurnoir · 06/04/2023 10:21

I find once the dog gets past the age of about ten they tend to take the piss . Forget everything they have learned and bank on everyone saying it doesn't matter she/he's old and they get away with everything

Oh yes, mine is definitely trying it on all the time. He can trot across the patio and up to the garden to visit the hedgehog, but can't possibly walk across the room to where his food is......so has to have it out in front of him.

He nearly died a few years ago so gets away with it because we all love the dickhead to bits.

Glad I'm not the only one who has a geriatric thug.

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bizzywiththefizzy · 06/04/2023 14:25

peppermintteagirl · 06/04/2023 05:57

Yeah, my nearly-13 year old refuses to act her age (which I secretly love). She's currently having a great time humping her bed...

🤣🤣🤣 I did once have a dog who was so in love with her lead she used to hump it 😆

REP22 · 06/04/2023 14:31

Bless him. At least he's enjoying himself!

My late Staffie Jasper was similar in his later years. I think he would have been quite happy to have had "Puppy 'til I Die!" emblazoned on his furry little chest.

Twentypast · 06/04/2023 17:10

WiddlinDiddlin · 05/04/2023 23:00

Won't let him read this, he's not ace he's a total nob. Just had to send DP out to fetch him out of the passionflower AGAIN, he goes to sniff, twirls around a bit then gets trapped, then just stands there hoping someone notice that a small black dog is lost in the back yard, getting darked on.

He could woof, he knows how, he's a Tibetan Terrier for fucks sake... 'SHOUT' is his default mode. Except when stuck.

Then he snuggles up at night and wants me to keep my hand on him at all times so he knows he's safe.. and then the stinky little piss-paws is forgiven everything he has ever done (which is quite a lot!)

Awwww I have a Tibetan too. Fab dogs. Except the selective deafness, the stubbornness, the idea that they run the household and we’re here for his convenience 🙄

Eggseggseverywhere · 06/04/2023 17:16

One of mine still averts her eyes with shame after stealing a fresh baguette last week. . Maybe not shame but smugness tbh..

peppermintteagirl · 06/04/2023 18:12

bizzywiththefizzy · 06/04/2023 14:25

🤣🤣🤣 I did once have a dog who was so in love with her lead she used to hump it 😆

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She's never humped anything else in her life, but beds are fair game it seems!

WiddlinDiddlin · 07/04/2023 03:33

Twentypast · 06/04/2023 17:10

Awwww I have a Tibetan too. Fab dogs. Except the selective deafness, the stubbornness, the idea that they run the household and we’re here for his convenience 🙄

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He still has all that too - he can't levitate onto table tops/work surfaces any more or plot convoluted routes around the house to pilfer snacks based on some weird 'floor is lava' rules... but he's barely discernable from the puppy he was 14 years ago in every other way.

And clearly the absolute KING of our household!

Mollymalone123 · 07/04/2023 05:08

My half blind, deaf dog with dementia is food obsessed-mistook her own poop for food and legged it round the garden with dh chasing after her to drop it.she ate it ….

GoodChat · 07/04/2023 05:30

My little knobhead is only 5 but takes great joy in lying in the most inconvenient places just so he can have a go at your for stepping to close to him - for example right by the side on the bed or sofa. He's allowed on the furniture but he prefers to be an arse.