Your Dog's Worst Habit/Trait?

[Taz1212]

Mine is a poo eater. I've never had a poo eater before. Dog poo, cat poo, fox poo, horse poo, rabbit poo, you name it, he eats it. You'd think we starve him. Disgusting creature!

He's also dog obsessed. He's worked out that if he lies flat down and smushes himself from chin to tail onto the path, there's nothing I can do to make him budge until the approaching dog gets close enough for him to say HI. He radiates disappointment should that dog have absolutely no interest in him.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig she's a Malamute cross. Their whole reason to live is digging and pulling apparently.

Here she is. She's beautiful, but yeah the digging drives me mad.

I might have to be greedy and have 3.

1. Eating his own poo - I've even caught him with on hanging out of his mouth like a sausage before (bleurghh)
2. Pretending to be interested in other people until they bend down to stroke him, then he puts his nose in the air and wide-berths them
3. Sock thief, but only ever my socks

Another poo eater here. Her own poo and our other dogs poo. Dirty, dirty witch.

Sock stealer - only worn ones though and she likes to take them to her bed and suck them.
Slipper/flip flops stealer but only the leather ones - Dh and I both wear gnawed at indoor footwear, it's getting embarrassing now so I check what's on my feet before opening the door to anyone.
she's a hopeful pigeon chaser - she doesn't get it yet that she'll never catch one but has fun trying.
The slinking low to the ground thing then trying to pounce on other dogs to play.
She thinks that everyone who speaks, whether it be to each other or on mobiles, is talking to her.
No one dares breathe on a morning - God forbid you just want to change position and go back to sleep, you can't and won't because she's there in your face.
She takes offence to stupid things and behaves like a loon - we've had the hair on the back of her neck at snowmen, carrier bags, ongoing with those tarpaulin adverts that hang on the fence/railings - she hates them. The other day she seen flowers outside for the first time and there was temporary hell on.
She is a tree/shrub/bush sniffer and WILL spend ages until she's finished regardless of my command to 'lets go'.

I honestly can't answer which is the worst :)

Aww GoooRooo how could you ever be angry with that face?

Ddog1 - labrador - another poo eater. Steals food/food wrappings if they aren't out of reach. Toxic farts. Thick as mince - at age 6 has mastered chasing a ball, but just stands there with a dim look on her face and the ball in her mouth - no concept of bringing it back so I can throw it again.

Has, in the past 'played' with knitting yarn, so I have had to send hours disentangling it. Chewed the end off my favourite crochet hook and my favourite hairbrush.

Ddog2 barks like the Hound of the Bloody Baskervilles at anyone who has the temerity to walk past our house in the pavement or walk up their own drive, or who come to our front door.

They both pull like trains at the start of a walk - they have made me pull muscles between Te bones of my left hand, and the doctor thinks it will take weeks to heal.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig I'll let her dig up your garden and see if you can manage to not mutter "you bastard, bastard dog, AGAIN" at her ;)

My 2 have a list...

Staffy- Pilfers shoes. Preferably my slippers or DPs trainers. He'll take them off the shoe rack when your back is turned. He just collects them and gives you a look of innocence when you catch him.
Any guest through the front door has to be greeted with a present. Not for guest. You can't have it. Just something in the mouth.
Begging of food by sitting as closely as humanly/dogly(?) possible and then placing a paw on you. The international signal for 'I am here. I require an offering'.
Loves to charge though people's flower beds. Will turn round and go back through if he deems a good one.

Fluppy-Having to rub his face in whatever he is laying on, then turning upside down and stretching out to take up all the room.
Hiding from any and all other dogs and then letting out one deep woof from behind my legs
Thick as 2 short planks. I'm almost convinced that there is just fluff between the ears.

Dafty dog is a velcro dog but really I'm 42 I don't need a dog to still by my side when I go for a wee also she doesn't do puddles and will avoid them at any cost so walking along the path she suddenly drags me to the side of stops dead or bangs into me plus she never walks in a straight line and zigzags ( even when no puddles about)

CarbeDiem - Not a collie perchance? Because I think we own your dog's twin.

GoooRooo - Our old fella was a digger. I tried to plant several apple trees during his lifetime, he dug them up and returned them to me via the cat flap. He was such a helpful creature. Mind you, I had the last laugh, in the garden now stands a cherry tree planted in his honour.

Hell We don't know what she is exactly but she's definitely got some collie traits.
Oh I forgot to add above - the nipping and herding at our legs when we aren't getting ready or moving quick enough for her liking.

Labrador considers goose poo a delicacy - we live by village pond aaagh.

Dog 1, a spaniel, a very smelly spaniel who likes to roll in anything, fox poo, horse poo, rotting fish, rotting birds, you name it, if it stinks he will roll. Also poo eater, only human, fisherman poo that the lazy bastards leave behind because they 're too f*ing lazy to walk to the loo.

Dog 2 a water seeking missile and the most noxious farts imaginable.

He eats poo - big bloody chunks of the stuff, he is like a poo seeking missile, he finds it whether he is on or off the lead, it's almost impossible to stop him. I'm surprised it doesn't make him ill.
I'm oddly reassured that other dogs like to have a good munch...at least he doesn't roll in it.

He like to dig holes in the lawn too, thankfully we are fairly relaxed about gardening.

oh, as well as his apache stripes of fox poo on his face, he bops you -

wet nose on back of bare legs - doesn't half give you a fright sometimes,

I can be at the sink in the kitchen - getting his dinner ready and he comes up right behind you and pokes you with a wet nose to say "I'm here - come onnnnnnn"

It can't be described as a habit, exactly, because she's only done it once - but it falls into the 'finding smelly stuff and rolling in it' catagory - ddog2 once found half a seal - half a rotting, manky, runny seal, to be exact - on the rocks by Stevenston beach. First she tried to bring it home with her, and when dh (most unreasonably, in her mind) refused to let her, she rolled luxuriously in it.

She smelt so awful that even ddog1 - a labrador, and therefore a connoisseur of foul odours - would not sit near her. And dh had gone to the beach on the train, so had to bring them home the same way! Luckily the carriage was empty.

When he got her home, his idiotic plan was to walk this runny-seal-stinky dog through the house, upstairs and through our bedroom to the en suite for a shower! He was surprised when I was not entirely happy with this idiotic plan, and insisted that she was washed in the garden, with the hose.

In the end, she was bathed twice in the garden - and still stunk, so had to have a shower. And we had run out of dog shampoo - but even teenager Lynx was better than Eau de Manky Seal!

VimesGirl

Yup. And she was so pleased with herself too!

They're just as confused as to why we don't like it.