Dog appreciation post

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Why are they so bloody lovely? We don’t deserve them do we? Loyalty like no other. Always happy to see you. People are great but dogs just go above and beyond.

I really appreciate when a cute dog has capable and down to earth owner who doesn't let them approach and bother others, who understands that not everyone loves their dogs and is ok with that, and who knows that dogs don't belong everywhere.
I appreciate when the owner is able to provide good conditions for the dog (garden, not just a flat), and is ready to pay for their needs (food, vet, dog sitting, ...) without moaning.

It is always a pleasure to meet a well behaved dog with their owner from respectful distance.

And that's the only way how the dog ownership should be.

@DoggusDomesticus I often get a very sarcastic down from my Dobermann, she lets all her legs together and forcefully flood on the floor! Like she's irritated we are practising training!

Dogs with their big huffs are hilarious.
If we stay up late (by his reckoning, at least) my dog will signal bedtime to us by repeatedly looking at us and then the stairs, whilst making big impatient huffs.
Never fails to crack me up!

Our bigger dog does this too. He takes himself off to his bed in the bedroom when he decides it's bedtime, and if we don't follow him, he'll come back and stand at the living room door just staring at us and huffing. 🤣

Dogs huff and sigh an awful lot for a being that does not know what a government is 😆

Betty, my St Bernard does that after a bath, she flops on the floor with a massive huffy sigh, and if I ignore it long enough she will come right up to my face just to huff through her nose at me, and then flop down dramatically again.

She cracks me up.

I bet a St Bernard huff is a lot more impressive than a Lhasa Apso one too.

Brilliant thanks. Stubborn lol, that's my retrievers middle name. One word from me or my partner and he does exactly what he wants and just walks away then looks back over his shoulder to tell us to fuck off 🤣

They are lovely, but I prefer cats and Guinea pigs

I don't know about impressive, but it's probably a lot more drooly 🤣🤣

I get huffing if I'm not fast enough taking her out when I get home from work. I get huffing at going to work..
I also get refusing to walk a route if she decides we are going another way. 😅

😅 funny! Oh, I forgot to mention he likes to ignore us when called. Sometimes I wonder if he is a cat.

I don’t understand why all these dog-haters have dogs endlessly running up to them, jumping up at them, etc. Do they douse themselves in Prime Pork Sausage Perfume, or what?

I walk very often in a big park where masses of dogs are off the lead, and in over 20 years I can barely even count on half a hand the times any dog has run up to me, let alone jumped up. They’re almost always too busy following so many enticing scents of rabbit, fox, etc.

I wonder this too! I positively encourage dogs to run up to me (when their owners allow) and it very seldom happens. Most dogs I meet just go straight past me pursuing their own interests.

Yes I wonder this too, occasionally one of my dogs will look vaguely interested in a passing dogless person and I always call them but it’s a very rare event.

Please, please keep those gorgeous dogs’ pictures coming.
Recently lost our lovely DDog and still reeling from it. This is the perfect balm (apart from getting a new dog when the time is right; whenever that will be).

The only time it happened to me, was because I was stupid enough to put fresh chicken in my pocket for treats 🤦‍♀️

There's something very sad about the word "dogless" 😅

Oops, before it kicks off “dogfree” 😃

It happened! A dog jumped up on me in John Lewis! But only because I encouraged him by making a huge fuss of him. It was lovely.

Mine goes into "standby mode" from about half nine where he dozes on the couch.
Bedtime is 11 and he has his own bed on the bottom of my bed with his own blanket.
If I move or turn over from that point onwards I am met with a gust of huff enough to sink a ship.
It's a proper loud and perfectly timed passive aggressive SIGH. God knows how he creates such an expulsion of air cos hes only small.

Not understanding what the dog is doing is a big part of it.

was in the grounds of a National Trust place a few years ago. Huge grounds and dogs are allowed of leads in certain areas of it. We were on a path with fields either side and came to a stone wall with a gap for the path to go through. So at that point people are funnelled a bit closer together.

Someone was coming the other way with her toddler and my dog was off the lead. She’d been chasing a ball but as we got to the wall I picked the ball up, realised there was someone coming and stopped to let them through. My dg stopped next to me. I didn’t make her sit but she was standing still, staring fixedly at the ball in my hand. The woman came through the gap and my dog turned her head to look, then looked back at her ball. Didn’t move apart from that. The woman lost it at me.
”You should keep your dog under control. There are children here - why isn’t it on a lead. You haven’t even called it” Etc etc. Picked her kid up and marched off.

I didn’t say anything because it took me totally by surprise. My dog was under control - she also wasn’t remotely interested in this woman. I didn’t call her because she was standing next to me. She literally only turned her head to see what the noise was - it was nothing worth paying attention to so she paid no attention and returned to the thing that was worth her attention, her ball.

Ive often wondered if the woman genuinely saw it as me failing to call my dog, therefore not being in control, and how she tells the story. Did she think my dog was about to jump at her, or knock her child over? Did she start a thread about out of control dogs and believe it?!

I can only think she knew absolutely nothing about dog behaviour and genuinely felt that having my dog off lead was the same as having no control and that the look the dog gave her meant the dog was interested in her and about to go and jump up.

We get told it's bedtime by both the dog and one of the cats.
Dog huffs, cat meaows persistently until we do. 9pm...so not even late.

We were in a cafe once and my dog started sneezing, over and over again. A woman at a table close told me I 'shouldn't have such an aggressive dog in public', before standing and leaving. No way on earth could his sneezing fit have been misconstrued as anything other than sneezing, but here was a woman telling me otherwise..