BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 01:52 PM

A couple who are our neighbours two-doors-down have a very young border collie called 'Logie'. They take him to training classes and apparently the instructor thinks he's a 'vocabulary dog'. If one looks straight ahead and mutters a word such as 'ball', 'bone', 'doll', 'wooden spoon' he'll rush off and fetch that very object. They're gradually increasing his vocabulary and he can now identify twenty or so unseen items when sent from their sitting room into the garden to fetch them. It's his absolute favourite game.

He also seems to like our cat Smokey. If he's not with me on our garden bench, Logie is looking all over for him as he passes by with his owners. When he appears, he's ecstatic. Smokey seems to quite like him too.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 01:23 PM

What a great name for it, Donuel!
Much better than anything like rolling-in-the-grass,
which leaves out that back-and-forth torso wriggle.
I found it hard to put into words,
but once you've seen a dog (or a horse) do it, you never forget it.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 11:18 AM

That 'elderly' thread was started when I got Gromit as a puppy many years ago. One of her favs was the horizontal grass dance.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 05:43 AM

Swim? We've had both. Portia, a lab retriever cross and our (or at least my - I was very young when we got her) first dog was pretty much a "couldn't keep out of the water" dog. Misty, a blue merle mongrel, loved a swim in the sea and liked to fetch a ball from the sea - used to like taking her out on the north Norfolk coast.

Meg, a border collie, was of your "fuck off" to water type. She loved retrieving things though and wanted to do that in sheepdog style - crouch down somewhere and wait to round the object up.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 05:18 AM

1) 'His spot' on the sofa
2) His bed in the spare bedroom

Walkies? "Meh!"
Ball-thrower? "Nah!"
Bone? "Yuck!"
Swim? "Fuck right off!"

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 02:44 AM

We don't have a dog now but for Misty, our last dog, I could suggest her basket in the living room and her den in the porch. These were very much her property – no cats allowed. She would ask to go to her den at night. It seemed a sort of "I've done my duty for the day and now I want to go to my own bed in the (usually) cooler peace and quiet".

Thing in another way would be any outing. She could get excited at any of several words that she associated with a trip out even if one was just overheard say in a conversation between myself and my mother.

Subject: Pets in general, dogs in particular
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jun 17 - 09:57 PM

An elderly thread on Mudcat considers "your pets favorite things."
Thought a thread on dogs' favorite things would suffice. Although we need not be exclusive.

After all, some dogs and some cats tolerate each other....