That one thing your dog does that makes you smile .

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My darling dog always makes me smile when I give him his tea he will always come and find me in the house or garden to give me a kiss . I can only think he's thanking me for his meal .
It makes me smile every time .
What makes you smile 😃 with your dogs ?

Our irish wolf hounds sit with their front legs crossed, like a human, and twist themselves in to funny angles. Our rescue girl dances on her back legs when we come home, and they all sing together when getting ready to go for a walk.

The fact that when he's done (or is about to do) something appalling he grins like Quagmire from Family Guy.

My darling boy brings me a stray food nugget if he's hungry. As if to say 'come on Mum!!'
Also if I give him anything to eat that he hasn't tried before he throws it in the air onto the floor then dances around it on his hind legs - particularly amusing when dining in pubs.

My dog tries to bargain. If you have human food she wants she sometimes brings her toys and drops them at your feet. Thanks but no thanks dog.

My girl (32Kg of Labrador) cuddles up on the sofa with me and pushes so much to be close, that I am perched on the edge. If I move to get comfortable, she looks at me as though I’m the most unreasonable person alive.

@Mrskeats what type of dog is that?!

I adore our dog. He gets all his toys out his little battered cardboard box we moved them in when we moved house every night, lines them up and then chooses one to take upstairs to bed with him. Then the next night at around 9 ish he'll go upstairs and get the toy he took up there the night before and bring it down to start the line up again... it's bed time when he does that!
Destroys sticks with a ferocity like no other!

About 9pm when my dog is getting ready for his bed he will come into the living room where I am watching TV and put his face on my knee for a little cuddle then tootle off to bed. So cute.

The sweetest thing I've ever seen one of my dogs do is act as hearing dog for the other older dog. We realised that the eldest was really deaf all of a sudden (an infection, all sorted now) and the youngest took it on herself to be her ears. So if I called the eldest the youngest would nudge her and get her to follow, or find her on a walk. So clever and caring. The youngest also is the teddy bear dog eg every night my daughter has to have her sleep on the bed for a bit for company - I do the story etc, open the door and she's there for the bed shift! Dogs are amazing. You can't get a better pet!

Ah these are such lovely stories. My dog likes to be put into bed like a human and tucked up in his blankey. In the morning he wakes my children up - best alarm clock ever for kids. We love him to bits.

So nice that dogs give so much to our lives , I'm sure they understand so much more than we ever realise .
So many beautiful doggy photos .
This morning I was walking darling dog and usually turn off at a certain point but wanted longer walk today that we only ever do a few times a year as it's 7 miles but as we approached junction I was thinking long walk not shorter and darling dog moved to left off road and took the long option .
So how did he know that I had planned the 7 mile not the 3 mile .
He must have read my mind 😁

I was reminded of this thread when my dog was weeing in the garden this morning.

After she's weed she kicks out her back legs, as a lot of dogs do, but she does it as if she's performing a ballet movement. So instead of kicking like most dogs, she stretches each leg out in turn completely straight behind her as high as she can get it in a slow, controlled, elegant way with her toes nicely pointed.

Not sure it's very effective in spreading her scent behind her but it makes me smile every time she does it

I love how daft he is. He is a 7 month old 30kg Italian mastiff (Cane Corso), absolutely massive, but he cannot bear to be on his own for two seconds.

My silly boy ran up the stairs in the partner's office recently, and then squeak-cried pitifully because he could see us through the landing bannister and we were downstairs and he was upstairs. Despite the fact that he had run up there and could happily run down again.

I adore the fact that he knows he is not allowed on the bed (though he still tries his luck) so he gets as close as he can beside it on a box next to the bed so that he can be close.

I adore how cuddly he is. He's so big now but so loving. I struggle with mental health, and one of the most calming things for my head when he was a puppy was to have him on my lap. Or when he would lie on my chest with his paws and head on my shoulder for cuddles.

Softly woofing and big sighs in his sleep, its beyond cute.
All four paws doing their twitching running.

I even mute the tv so I can watch him.

He comes running into the kitchen every time the cheese dome comes out of the fridge, he positions himself between me and the kitchen cupboard to catch any bits of cheese. Always makes me smile.