Silly Dog

[Mairte]

I noticed that the dog had started blowing his coat and he gets extremely itchy when thats going on. I found his brush (he knows the word and gets beyond excited,lol) and proceeded. He, of course, thought that meant he got to sit in my lap while being brushed. Not an easy skill for a large dog!!
After I THOUGHT I was done, I set the brush on the crate. He made me LAUGH because he sat and STARED at it as if it was going to move back over by osmosis.
He is also the only dog I have ever had that LOVES to be hugged, which isnt difficult since he looks like a big teddy bear.
Just sharing because that little incident, however insignifigant to some, made me smile.
What silly things have your pets done?

[Merlin the Elder]

If I stand over my Akita and scratch her chest, her head falls back, her eyes roll into the back of her head, then close, and sometimes she'll fall over. You'd think she was having the big 'O!'

[Mairte]

LOL, Merlin, I totally see that because the dog I was talking about is a Chow and either Akita or Shiba Inu cross, he looks like a red Akita.
He has been known to fall over too and loves to be scratched or brushed on his chest.

[Taffy Saltwater]

My late Scotty used to love to ride in the passenger seat.  He'd sit on his butt, rear back so he was sitting with his back on the back of the seat, and then rest his front leg on the arm rest.  Just like a person.  He'd also do the same thing on the sofa.

[Rowan MacD]

My late Scotty used to love to ride in the passenger seat.  He'd sit on his butt, rear back so he was sitting with his back on the back of the seat, and then rest his front leg on the arm rest.  Just like a person.  He'd also do the same thing on the sofa.

Scotties are clowns, LOL.
My little brindle female has this drama thing that she does, I don't know where she learned it:  You blow gently into her face, she stares really hard at you and then...ever so slowly....wipes her nose with her paw and falls over, holding her paw straight up and out toward you.   Makes you laugh till you cry.
  She does this with everybody, no matter who, even if you just brushed your teeth. Bizarre.

[irish]

Mairte.......I can relate! My dog Brumus, who is a Newfoundland/Black Lab mix, loves to be brushed. One time I was walking with my hair brush, brushing my hair and he was following and looking at me as to say...."Excuse me! My turn!"

Oh and many years ago, we had a fox terrier mix, who loved Hershey kisses. (yes, we knew it was bad for her, but she got the tiniest of a speck of one and was happy).
Anyways our local store was having a giveaway on a 5 pound Hershey bar. So me being funny,  put her name in. The store called and asked for Koko R. I said who is this? They proceeded to tell me, she had won a 5 pound Hershey bar! I was like, 'well, ummmmm, Koko is a dog.' They still gave it to her along with the 'fake' one as she couldn't really eat the real one. 

[Lady Rebecca]

My dog (a miniature poodle) absolutely loves bananas. I swear, he has some sort of 6th sense when it comes to them, because he can be all the way across the house, but if someone takes a banana off the top of the fridge (which is where we keep them) he will come running and be in the room before you can even start to peel it.

[arbcoind]

When my late Cocker Spaniel was a young dog she started howling during a Cadbury Easter candy TV commercial.  A chicken would come out and cluck during the commercial...My dog would raise her snout in the air and let out a long beautiful howl.

I managed to teach her to howl by first clucking like a chicken.  I eventually taught her to howl on command by saying "where are the chickens". 

Gina

[LadyStitch]

My Boston Terrier Fenway has a thing about his blanket.  He will not sleep with out. If you forget to move it from his bed in the bedroom, to his beanbag chair in the living room, or vice versa you will get no peace what so ever. 
I forgot one night to bring it into the bed room.  He spent half the night sitting by the head of the bed, ever so slightly whining in a very high pitch until I got up to let him out. Instead of going outside he went to his blanket and drug it to my feet, then sat down and looked up at me as if it to say, "You forgot this madame."
If you forget it in the living room he will sit by you and whine until you go get it.  Once he has it, he will go laydown and be happy.  Drives us bonkers.
OK I have to add this one.  Until we got our house we had only ferrets.  One night I had cleaned the coffee table with pledge so it was nice and polished.  I even sat a nice placemat on it.  I went to go get a nice candy dish or something pretty to go on it.  As I was turning away I noticed our ferret Wally had crawled to the top of the couch.  Having that sense that something was about to happen, I watched as he jumped from the top of the couch, landed on the cushion, which bounced him onto the placemat on coffee table. He had so much momentum that he slid down the length of it, and off onto the the floor.   Wally had this look of, WTH, then Ooo that was fun, and started bouncing around.
The PP and I were laughing so hard.  Out of curiosity we put the placemat back on the same place.  Wouldn't you know it Wally climbed back up and did it again.  Boing.. boing ...weee.... He did this 3 times before we nearly peed ourselves laughing so hard.  He gave us a "humans are weird look" and went to go find a squeaky toy. From then on we never put anything decorative on the coffee table that couldn't be knocked to the floor.  We never knew when the daredevil would strike again. 

[Lady Christina de Pond]

I don't think there is a day that i don't laugh at s80 weather it's her burying under the covers or barking at the cat outside the door even though she knows him. my cat he was FURIOUS when i brought S80 home i remember telling him be nice she is ours. well in April it will be exactly 1 year but he didn't need that long to accept her he LOVES her. I was telling someone it's bad when the dog chases the cat but it's funny to see the cat chasing the dog so he can rub up against her. ofcourse he's fake attacked her too which if funny he will hide in the shurbs and wait for her to walk past then pounce out on her like he's going to attack her then he just walks off like ha got her.

[Mairte]

I love hearing these stories.
I got another laugh today when my miniature dachshund was having a case of the "zoomies". You know, where they rip around the house like they have gone mad? He looks so funny because he is such a low rider dog,lol.
On another note, I got informed I will be a new "mommy" of an Akita puppy. I have waited for this! My other dog is half Akita but I started wanting an Akita when I was TEN, so this has been a long time coming.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

yeah the zoomies is funny too S80 likes to bounce off the furniture when she zoomies around the living room ofcourse she doesn't do it much since she runns and chases my parents boxer outside a lot but they are friend and love each other

sunday afternoon i came home to find that my little s80 was naked. Grace(my parents boxer) finally acomplished what she's been trying to do for almost six months she got the harness off s80. ofcourse she destroyed it before i could get it away from her. i don't think she liked the color she hasn't tried to remove the red one i purchased monday ofcourse i also told her if she tears this one up i was going to get her.

Pebs my boxer that passed away a little over a year ago used to take her own collar off and then play with it. we used to play hide and seek she hid the collar i would find it and stick it back on her. then we started over again she would spend days trying to get the collar off sometimes it took a week but we played hide and go seek for a while

[Elennare]

I have a story about my cat.

Usually my husband feeds her, and we always feed her in the evening before we go to bed.  For some reason I was feeding her on this particular night.  I grabbed the bag of cat food and she came running over, like she always does.  Apparently she was really hungry, though, because instead of waiting for me to pick the bag up after pouring food into her bowl she started to reach for the food as soon as it stopped coming out of the bag.  I still haven't figured out exactly what I did, but I somehow managed to flip the edge of the bag in such a way the kibble went flying every where!  Some of it rained on the cat as well.

That was just unacceptable.  She immediately froze, backed up a bit, sat down, and stared at me disapprovingly until I had cleaned up all of the wayward food.  Once that was done, and the bag of food was put back in the cupboard, she went back to her dinner.

[LadyStitch]

Fenway get's the zoomies often.  He just tears around the house.  This is usually after he got a good scratch or a good brushing.  One time he was zooming around the house when I called his name. He turned his head to look at me, but didn't notice where he was heading until he turned back around to start heading back towards me.  Well when he turned back around he discovered he had was 6 inches from the wall.  He hit the wall full speed.  He was alright, a bit loopy for a couple minutes, but ok.  He had this look of 'I meant to do that...really I did.'   

[Merlin the Elder]

It's a dangerous situation if my 2 "kids" get the zoomies. When we first brought Abbe (Akita) home to see if she would get along okay with Denali (Malamute) [both these are rescues], they decided to play chase. As they came racing back into the living room, I failed to get out of the way fast enough, and was knocked arse-over-teakettle, or more accurately, arse-over-sofa.

When a 170 pound man (before I quit smoking) gets hit by 200 pounds, aggregate weight, of running dogs, man loses in all cases.