Being cross with your dog

Valdali, I chuckled when I read your post. We had a beagle with no sense of right or wrong! She would steal food, run away when you told her to come, she was found on furniture when she knew she shouldn't... but she was a sweet girl for always being in trouble!

Meanwhile now we have an Aussie shepherd, and she is a very obedient dog. If anything, she is too eager to please and sometimes gets in trouble for getting underfoot. She will slink off to her stool with sad eyes until we give the word and a rub on her ears.

My two never look guilty either Iam64 to be fair they are usually good. Recall can be a problem when they are out in the fields but they amble back like 'well we are here now' absolutely no apology

valdali

I must have a very brazen dog - if I catch him doing something wrong & get cross,his tail goes 10 to the dozen & he laps it up. If I shout at him for getting in the pond,he leaps about like a porpoise & splashes twice as hard.He does occassionally look - not quite guilty but slightly worried - when he's chewed something really spectacular, but in general he seems to find making me cross a huge joke. He is still very young, & getting better all the time but I think he's always going to have a bit of attitude. Totally good-natured at the same time.

Is he a Parson Terrier? May be same litter to ours.

Oh gosh yes, Iam64 , nearly every day I have to restuff the bed and sew up a new hole on the under side!

I keep everything high up out of reach - so if things get stolen/eaten/destroyed it's usually my fault. If I answer the door I have to take my sandwich with me - she's so quick!

I've solved the sandwich problem in my newly fitted kitchen by asking for a worktop type shelf in a larder cupboard so I can shut the doors, turn round to the sink without my lunch disappearing! 🥪

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When our friends moved to France we took on their middle aged and frighteningly intelligent Border Collie. I got very worried one day when I realised that he had spent the whole day lying at the top of the garden. I was imagining phoning our friends and telling them he was seriously ill, or worse! In the end I remembered that I had shouted at him that morning and he was sulking! He was far too superior a dog to put up with being shouted at by vulgar humans!

Dogs are so much more eager to please. When I tell off my cat she gives me a look of withering defiance and would stick two fingers up if she could. 😹

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My dog is getting deaf with old age, so no point in moaning at him. But tbh he has been an exemplary behaved dog all his life, the only thing he does do is work at a hole in the garden which drives me mad, but he is an “earth” dog - terrier and is following his instinct so I let him get on with his project.

AussieGran59

From a very early age we taught our puppies never to take food from kitchen benches or tables as it’s very dangerous for them. Imagine if they took grapes or onions or chocolate! I think it’s very important that they only eat what you give them. For their own safety.

You’ve obviously never had a sighthound. I never understood the term ‘ thieving hound’ till I had one. I could leave food on coffee tables and my spaniels, food obsessed as they are, wouldn’t touch it. I then got a Whippet….

You’ve obviously never had a sighthound. I never understood the term ‘ thieving hound’ till I had one. I could leave food on coffee tables and my spaniels, food obsessed as they are, wouldn’t touch it. I then got a Whippet …..

And if it’s even bigger like a greyhound… there’s not a lot they can’t reach up on their back legs…
But you learn to keep things out of reach or never turn your back

I fostered a huge labradoodle aged about 18 months. She’d had a tough start, spent a lot of time in kennels, so she’d little idea about manners. My resident dogs were excellent role models, my own big labradoodle looked tiny next to this leggy girl.
I left a big apple pie on the window sill, behind the sink, thinking it was out of the way. Came back minutes later, the pie dish was in the same place but every scrap of pie had gone. Another time, she ate 12 eggs I’d brought in from the hen run. Empty bowl, in its original (out the way I thought) spot, not a tiny sliver of egg shell left.
In fairness, she arrived skin and bone and like one of my own rescues, in the early days, grabbed any opportunity to eat 💖.

MawtheMerrier

Will you post a pic of her when she arrives please Fleurpepper ?

I am pretty useless at posting photos- but I will try.

My mother used to put the butter on the hearth to warm before getting tea ready. When we stayed once, the butter dish was empty when she went to get it.
Our spaniel was licking his lips and looking very pleased with himself, not a bit guilty having devoured half a pound of Anchor.
He wasn't sick either.

Spaniels seem to have a capacity for fat that far exceeds their size

And food of any kind! He demolished sandwiches and cakes set out on the bottom layer of a tea trolley once (my own fault).

My first spaniel ate all the savouries on the table mum set for my sisters 18th birthday. She ignored the other half where deserts were laid. Mum had left the spaniel in the kitchen with the food aaarrgh

AussieGran59

From a very early age we taught our puppies never to take food from kitchen benches or tables as it’s very dangerous for them. Imagine if they took grapes or onions or chocolate! I think it’s very important that they only eat what you give them. For their own safety.

You may come round and teach our dogs. They give absolutely no thought to most anything we've ever tried to teach them.

Lovely manners, when they wish.

Deedaa

When our friends moved to France we took on their middle aged and frighteningly intelligent Border Collie. I got very worried one day when I realised that he had spent the whole day lying at the top of the garden. I was imagining phoning our friends and telling them he was seriously ill, or worse! In the end I remembered that I had shouted at him that morning and he was sulking! He was far too superior a dog to put up with being shouted at by vulgar humans!

Why on earth didn't they take the dog with them? So so simple.

I've been in the doghouse all week. My poor girl has had colitis so no treats or long walks. She waits at her treat cupboard with that hang dog look and I stand apologising to her that she's not getting anything until she's better. I just get the look and then she huff's for ages in her bed. She makes me feel awful and she bloomin knows it 🐕

And this was my bum bag totally destroyed last week while I left it full of treats in the hall.
Yes, my fault, but we were away and I kind of forgot the routine.

I am probably overthinking this but Rosie spent the night curled up beside me in bed (well, she was ON the bed) so maybe she was a bit shaken by being shouted at? Or reasserting her position as VID (very Important Dog)