Being cross with your dog

MawtheMerrier

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)

My guess is reasserting her position as VID or Alpha female.

It could be she knows you are 'vulnerable' at the moment. You have been ill, struggling to get over it, and feeling under the weather (as per your recent posts)- and she wants you to know she is there for you, come what may, shout or not.

A true friend. Give her a big cuddle from me (go on, you too).

Oh, I know the feeling! I am currently trying to teach a nine month old cat with a mind of her own, not to scratch wallpaper of the hall wall!

She knows I disapprove because when I pick up a torn piece of wallpaper and waggle it in front of her nose and tell her I will not have this caper, she runs (offendedly) ofF to hide. for all of five minutes, but next day she is at it again.

The worst of it is - I applaud her taste, as I don't care for that wallpaper either, but I am not going to redecorate until I can be certain she will leave the wallpaper ALONE!

In a moment of madness I adopted a one-year-old puppy. She chews everything up, steals my shoes and buries my socks in the garden, comes in with a muddy nose and muddy feet, then stomps all over me and wants to give me kisses.

Just as well I love her to to bits - and she makes me laugh so much.

wow what a cutie. But ... put the shoes away, and more importantly, the socks. One of DDs ate one of sil's sock that he leaves all over the bedroom- on a Sunday. A VERY expensive trip to the VET, ad a VERY unpleasant and dangerous time for doggie- and all the upset.

The shoes were in the shoe rack!

Luckily she never actually seems to swallow what she chews - when she got the remote I spent hours gluing it together to check every little bit (including the battery) was there.

Phew!

Next door’s dachy pup actually eats socks so you’re right Fleur very dangerous. Happily her instinct is to bury things - in the garden, in her bed or under my pillow.

One of DD's dogs used to take shoes from the rack, he never chewed them but would carry them outside and leave them somewhere in the garden.
He only seemed to take the shoes of visitors 😀

She's gorgeous, Quokka 🙂

Thank you Calli - just a mongrel

My spaniel is in the doghouse yet again tonight. He’s just snuck upstairs into my son’s bedroom and eaten Gaviscon by opening a new packet. Cue Google, looks like it’s not dangerous, but oh the stress - he will eat absolutely anything that could remotely be edible.

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

One of DD's dogs managed to open the fridge and pinch chocolate. She's a very greedy dog.
She survived.

Oops! Have you noticed Casdon that if you ask ‘what have you got in your mouth?’ they start chewing faster.

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Callistemon21

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

She is ShinTzu x Yorkie x Chihuahua

Callistemon21

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Oh yes!

Quokka

Callistemon21

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

She is ShinTzu x Yorkie x Chihuahua

That is quite some pedigree!

Quokka

Callistemon21

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Oh yes!

Yes, I had to run my finger right down the side of his tongue, that’s where he hides things. Yuck. He does have fresh breath now though.

Is he burping a lot? 😀

Years ago we had two police dogs, one working, one retired plus a rescue German Shepherd girl. The boys were understandably very well behaved but the rescue girl was not. We had friends round and I’d bought a lovely M&S cheeseboard with seven or eight cheeses on it. I left it on the kitchen surface and went into the living room. All of a sudden I heard a loud crash. It took me no longer than five seconds to get back to the kitchen and in that time, rescue girl had eaten every bit of cheese, even one wrapped in foil. She was, as they say, as sick as a dog that night but I shall never know how she ate so much in just a few seconds. Meanwhile the two police dogs looked horrified at me shouting at the top of my voice. They took themselves upstairs away from the trouble lest they should be accused of being in on it.

I had a friend who was working in the Antarctic. One day he returned to his tent to find that one of the sledge dogs had destroyed the book he was reading, mainly the end of the book so he didn’t know what happened (and, back then you couldn’t Google things). He’d taken everything from inside the tent and moved it outside: the book was the only thing that had been damaged. He said the dog had to be told off but he was secretly quite impressed with him, albeit being annoyed about the book. Mentioning this many years later I question my memory of it ( eg why wasn’t the husky tied up: surely there there other people around?) but it’s definitely what he told me and it always stuck in my memory. He was doing research on the ozone layer.

What a lovely pic, Maw!
Our first dog (RIP, 🐶) certainly knew when he’d been a Very Bad Boy.
I once left a dish of cold chicken pieces on the kitchen island (as I thought, out of reach) while I nipped to the shop (a quick walk away) for onions.

Came back to find the dish gone. Thought I was going mad - looked in the oven and fridge, etc., in case I’d put it there. No sign.
Eventually found both the empty dish (licked clean) and the dog (looking extremely guilty) curled up under the table.

To be entirely fair, it was largely my own fault for leaving such temptation under his nose, so to speak.

Fleurpepper

wow what a cutie. But ... put the shoes away, and more importantly, the socks. One of DDs ate one of sil's sock that he leaves all over the bedroom- on a Sunday. A VERY expensive trip to the VET, ad a VERY unpleasant and dangerous time for doggie- and all the upset.

Fleurpepper
This is Tilly looking rather sorry for herself during her SECOND out of hours expensive trip to the emergency vet after yet another sock swallowing episode! 🧦🧦

…… some dogs learn from their mistakes! 🤣

Oh wow - cute indeed. But honestly, the sock thing is just so bad! and easily avoided.