Being cross with your dog

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!

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).

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.

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)

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'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 🐕

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

MawtheMerrier

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

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

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 💖.

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

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….

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.

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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. 😹

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!

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

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! 🥪

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!

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