My dog tiptoes at night

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She's a boisterous heavy pawed noisy thing by day.

At night we let her up to our room for a bit whilst we watch tv before bed.

She's seen that we tiptoe upstairs because of the baby being asleep and she creeps ever so quietly up the stairs and past the babies room.

Just had to share.

I love dogs

Ha ha ha. I need you as my full time editor Tinty!

Tinty that gave me the best laugh I have had in ages, thank you!

As for the OP's tiptoeing dog, that is delightful, and really warmed my heart ❤ Dogs really are the best, I can't help preferring them to so many famous humans!

Awwwwwwww 😍

Dog's don't do ballet

My dog does.

Whenever she does a wee or poo in the garden, instead of kicking back like most dogs she stretches each back leg out in turn, completely straight, almost high enough to be on a straight level with her back.

She never does more that a couple of kicks for each leg and it's done slowly and held each time so that it definitely looks like some sort of balletic movement; it's very graceful.

It makes me smile every time I see her do it.

Loving these stories and hoping for more. I don’t have any tip-toeing dog stories.

I’ve always had adult rescued dogs some with quite a traumatic past and love it when they eventually begin to trust me by stretching out on my bed while I sleep. Sometimes they stay on the bed all night or get up from their bed on the floor during the night to snuggle close to me.

My little rescue dog does a sort of handstand (if you think of her front legs as hands) when she wees. She lifts her whole back end up in the air and kind of hovers while she wees. Not quite every time, but more often than not. And she climbs trees. (after squirrels and higher than our heads).
But...she would be VERY bad with a baby as she barks at the slightest noise at night (and during the day) and would most definitely bark if she heard a baby cry in the night, or a swan pass (we live on a boat) or even ducks dabbling outside the boat, a car passing, someone outside our boat (good guard dog). She'd be a nightmare if we had a baby.

Ah, love it - that's so sweet!
We used to have an Old English Sheepdog as I was growing up. He couldn't sleep until he knew his flock was safe and accounted for, so every night when we were asleep he would make his rounds of the bedrooms - a quick nuzzle of my face at around midnight, followed by the sounds of him checking out the other rooms. Then, when he was satisfied all was well, he'd sleep lying across the top of the stairs so he could guard us all.

When I started staying out late during my teens, he would wait downstairs by the front door for me and then see me safely into position before assuming his position at the top of the stairs.

Dogs are bloody awesome.

My schnauzer tap dances at night - which is a bit noisy we have hard floors in the bedrooms and she moves around in the night from bed to bed, tap tap tapping with her nails! They don’t need trimming she just likes tapping with them! Oh and she likes to tap on doors too.

Dogs are so precious and our lives are so much better with them in it.

Oh my what beautiful stories on here.
LOVE the idea of being rounded up by the sheepdog at night! And the handstand

How adorable - and clever! What breed is she?

I love the fact that your DDog tiptoes. It reminded me of "Dogs Don't Do Ballet" fir some reason as well

We have a sulked if I dont go to bed by ten. Or if she dosnt get the special peanut butter biscuits she likes. She also stands by the door and cries if its not WIDE open for her to go though. Or if its raining she looks out through the glass and cries.

But sulking us her favourite thing to do as you can see here. I'm just so cruel. But don't eat your dinner you don't get a biscuit im afraid

@Ellmau she's a poodle

No wonder she's clever then.

We used to live in a hot climate and had dogs that weren’t allowed in the house - ever. But, we had a dog that used to somehow sneak in and steal items - shoes, balls of wool, children’s toys - and hide them under her special plant in the garden where she liked to hang out. She managed this without us noticing, even though she had to get through our kitchen and up the stairs - and through a door which was habitually kept shut - to get the stuff. Her favourite trick, though, was to sneak in through the verandah doors and leopard crawl across the floor to the settee in our tv room, crawl up onto in and lie there with her eyes closed. Her reasoning was that if she couldn’t see us, we couldn’t see her either.

We had a big (rescue) Labrador who wasn't allowed upstairs and for a good while he didn't even know that there was an upstairs (you had to go through two doors to get to the stairs).

Anyway one night we were sitting up in bed and we heard him coming up the stairs. He headbutted the door open and stood there grinning as if to declare "Tis I!" before throwing himself on the bed which was his for evermore.

These are all so adorable. Dogs are the best.

Our little old dog has taken to putting himself to bed at about 10.30pm. He's arthritic so is usually carried like a Prince up and down the stairs, but if we're not retiring promptly enough for him, he'll sneak up the stairs, silently, one at a time, with some covert glancing to make sure he hadn't been spotted. (We pretend we haven't.)

This has to be the best thread I've read in ages

70kg rottweiler Winnie used to creep creep creep up onto my bed, stealthily slowly carefully shove me over, move into my space and then instantly commence an earth shattering snore to make sure I understood he was deeply asleep and incapable of hearing me protesting from somewhere underneath him. Best dog I ever had the honour of knowing.

Winnie also used to wake me in the morning by standing at the side of the bed with his chin resting on my pillow and huffing gently into my face. I would open my eyes straight into his kindly curranty brown ones.

We let ours sleep in the bedroom and as soon as she's let in she is SO quiet! Lays perfectly still with her eyes closed being ever such a good girl, for fear of being kicked out of her little bit of bliss 🥰

How lovely

@StCharlotte

We had a big (rescue) Labrador who wasn't allowed upstairs and for a good while he didn't even know that there was an upstairs (you had to go through two doors to get to the stairs).

Anyway one night we were sitting up in bed and we heard him coming up the stairs. He headbutted the door open and stood there grinning as if to declare "Tis I!" before throwing himself on the bed which was his for evermore.

This cracked me up!

Our rescue boy isn't allowed upstairs at home (we have to feed him and the cat desperately otherwise she'd never eat) but when we stayed at my mums the other weekend she woke up with breakfast in bed accompanied by the dog. He was DELIGHTED with himself for being upstairs and pawed me incessantly until I stopped eating and told him what a clever boy he was for convincing Granny he was allowed upstairs after all

Aww that's adorable!!

I had a Labrador x growing up. We got her when I was 2 so I was like her little baby and she would always protect me from the big kids and look after me. She was not allowed upstairs and would never ever go there (even though the stairs were open plan and no physical barrier was put there). Me and my sister used to spend hours trying to coax her up with dog biscuits but she wouldn't go further than the bottom step. When I was about 9 I developed epilepsy and started having seizures. Always in bed at night. After a while, one night I looked down out of my cabin bed to see her curled up in the corner of my bedroom. She took to sleeping in there (coming up once everyone was asleep and going down again before everyone woke in the morning) every night to look after me. She just knew I needed her. She had to be put down when I was 16 and I still miss her