BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?

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....

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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 04:00 PM

Eliza, is "Logie" the young fellow previously mentioned, who was spending too much time indoors -- you said you felt sorry for him.
How nice that he is taken with one of your "fur-persons".

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 04:08 PM

Yes keberoxu, the very same! They go out to work and he's left in the back garden, but another nice neighbour has the key and sees to him for about an hour. I personally don't think it's enough stimulation for a border collie, but then I'm not a dog owner.
They do walk him early in the morning and in the evening, which is when I see him from my perch on the bench.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 08:05 PM

Gromit was a border collie and loved to race to me from 50 yards upon my signal.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jun 17 - 08:19 PM

Our dogs seem to like it when I dance for them and make up songs about them. They do a little dance in response, and then expect a treat.

Maybe they just fake the appreciation so I'll be tricked into giving them treats.

Joe

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 03:35 AM

"Raindrops on roses, and snacking on kittens"

Apologies to Julie Andrews

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 17 - 05:54 PM

Not to mention Mary Martin -- she sang it first

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 17 - 03:29 PM

In my experience, what really gets a dog to bypass all reasonable behavior
is neither kitten nor cat.

It is the almighty SQUIRREL. Chipmunks will also do.
Not to speak of raccoons, various rodents, rabbits....

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jun 17 - 03:34 PM

I recall a reminiscence by an owner of a long-deceased, irreplaceable pet dog.

This terrier's prey instinct was re-trained toward tennis balls.

The family ended up storing the dog's ball in the FREEZER
as it was the only place the dog could not sniff out its smell.
And that dog was attached beyond all reason to his toy ball.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jul 17 - 03:04 PM

refresh:

what are your dogs' favorite things
to which to
GIVE CHASE?

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Jul 17 - 04:36 PM

My dog's favorite thing is a plastic bottle. It starts out as something to chase and play soccer with. Then it becomes something to hold in her mouth while she runs around the yard acting crazy. Then, after she's tired of running, it becomes a chew toy until it's totally shredded. Then it somehow becomes my responsibility to dispose of the mutilated carcass.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Jul 17 - 07:23 PM

Thanks to Keboroxu for correcting me on a dog's preference, so . . .

Fluffy's song

Raindrops on roses, and snacking on squirrel.
Guarding the door against that nasty Quirrell.
Hearing how Hagrid can hatch dragons' eggs.
Taking a bite out of Master Snape's legs.

Listening to music that can get me sleeping.
Dozing, ignoring the trapdoor I'm keeping.
Letting three kids past, now that's rather bad.
One was that 'Potter' he's quite Jack-the lad.

Now I'm harassed, and embarrassed, and I hope you see,
Despite inattention, to ingress prevention
My other heads won't agree.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Jul 17 - 11:45 AM

Harry Potter dog lyrics. Love it.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:14 PM

'Tis the season for rolling on one's back in the fresh-mown grass.

Horses do it as well as dogs.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Jul 17 - 03:39 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 11:55 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: John P
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 06:37 PM

(bouncing up and down and spinning in circles)
GOING TO THE PARK!! OH BOY!! LOTS OF STUFF TO SNIFF!! 0H BOY! POOP!

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Aug 17 - 11:27 AM

I just saw a lovely old chocolate Labrador Retriever on a lead, with his human chattering away on a cell phone in one hand and the lead in the other hand.

The poor old dog was panting heavily.

Going for a walk on a sunny day is a fine thing, especially for a dog. But in the summer heat it can be a mixed blessing....for a dog, who can't shrug off its fur coat.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Aug 17 - 05:52 PM

how are your dogs surviving August?

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: akenaton
Date: 24 Aug 17 - 01:08 PM

Rabbits.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 24 Aug 17 - 06:05 PM

my collie bitch absolutely adores her Kong -- this is a had red (tho I believe dogs do not see colour?) ball designed NOT to be [picked up by the breed for which you purchase the appropriate size of Kong.
I bought this ball while she was still a young dog so it should have been impossible for her to grasp it within her jaws -- but she discovered a notch into which she could insert the very tip of a canine tooth, then grasp the ball (albeit tenuously) and run about delightedly with it in her mouth- if only just.
I always intended to write to the manufacturers to complain -- -
When not grasping this ball in her teeth she loves to play football, dribbling and nosing the ball till it gets stuck somewhere -- then she has a particular 'King' bark till someone comes to release the ball from wherever it is stuck.
My partner usually gets fed up and hides the Kong in somewhere inaccessible, which is fine until collie-dog finds or notices it, which could be minutes or weeks later- - then 'the bark' starts till someone comes and releases the kong!

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 17 - 01:03 PM

Gallus Moll, you're not in Glasgow, are you?

Your post reminded me of a Robert Carlyle interview recorded and posted as a sound-video online.

(Carlyle interrupts the interview with a chuckle, then says:)
"I'm just looking at a dog over there.
Typical Glasgow collie.
'Gimme ma ball or Ah'll bite ye.'

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 17 - 04:45 PM

Charlie's favorite food seems to be gnawed Nazis. We guess that the meat is tenderized by all the alcohol and he's crazy about the juice. Probably has lots of oxycodone in it.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 16 Sep 17 - 07:10 PM

Hi Keberoxu

- naw, ah'm no' in Glesca - but no' a' that faur fae it!

Closer tae Akhenaton's neck o' the woods - better suited tae a collie dug! Lang walks oan forest roads, ower hills, alang beaches.

There are some extremely amusing and colourful Glasgow expressions - many of which are just made up on the spot. Are you able to watch Still Game (BBC tv), think there's another series due soon?

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 17 Sep 17 - 03:06 AM

8 months after Bonzo went to Rainbow Bridge, we are giving a home to a 4 month old puppy - Tiara, rescued in Roumania, arriving this coming Thursday! A new bed is in place and Bonzo is watching from his photo on the wall!

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Sep 17 - 01:10 PM

Welcome Home Tiara!

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 12:06 PM

Talking of squirrels,
now that trees are bare in these parts,
squirrels are plentiful.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 04:49 AM

GF's dog it is food

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 17 - 04:15 PM

These BS threads at Mudcat often have name-calling and other provocative things happening.

But just now -- won't say which thread --
the name-calling is "mudrats".

Sounds like just the ticket for the TERRIERS.
Especially those that favor the barn and stables.
Lurchers hunt those rats as well.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 09:33 AM

Vodka

In DC I saw a delivery truck with a huge graphic of
VODKA FOR DOGS with a picture of dogs and bottles .

in small print it said 'vodka for dog lovers'

but being bacon flavored I doubt it

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 12:09 PM

A slight update:

Fluffy's song

Raindrops on roses, and snacking on squirrel.
Guarding the door against that nasty Quirrell.
Hearing how Hagrid can hatch dragons' eggs.
Taking a bite out of Master Snape's legs.

Listening to music that can get me sleeping.
Dozing, ignoring the trapdoor I'm keeping.
Letting three kids past, now that's rather bad.
One was that 'Potter' he's quite Jack-the lad.

Now I'm harassed, and embarrassed, and I hope you see,
Despite inattention, to ingress prevention
My other heads won't agree.

Watching the rooms in which trolls may be roaming;
And Myrtle's bathroom where fountains are foaming.
Dodge Argus Filch as he prowls through the halls,
Cheer on the 'Hunt' as they ride through the walls.

Sybil, the seer, in her tower seems batty;
Lovely Minerva can sometimes seem catty;
Fred & George Weasley, who knows which is which?
Dolores Umbridge is really a wbitch.**

While the students, and their teachers are all at the feast,
Hagrid has let slip that music hath charms
to soo-oothe the savage beast.

**Sorry, had to change that. I couldn't get away with rhyming 'which' with 'witch' ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 01:18 PM

Top shelf.

The series may one day help us destroy the horcrux's of Donald J Trump but who is the chosen one?

Nigel is this part of Harry Potter the Musical?




I like when dogs do the horizontal grass dance.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 07:10 PM

Love the new and improved Harry Potter parody, Nigel Parsons.

(there would HAVE to be TWO Nigel P's who are Mudcat members)

Someone reminded me of the Barking Dogs' version
of Jingle Bells which is needed comic relief
during this holiday season.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Dec 17 - 02:27 PM

For the first time this winter
I saw a pet dog being walked on lead,
whose feet were booted in little booties.
Hope the booting has the desired benefits,
cause it sure looks foolish.

There are pet dogs out there
who would fight their way out of those booties
as soon as their paws were booted.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Dec 17 - 04:55 AM

In the UK Tescos they are selling wines with names like:

Bottom Sniffer and Pawsseco and as my cousin (2nd, once removed, since you ask) asks if they will produce whine for grumpy dogs, hameretto the almond flavored liqueur for pigs or schnapping the peach flavour liqueur for crocodiles

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 17 - 06:48 PM

Am missing Senoufou and her concern
for the new collie pup in her neighborhood.

RIP Cinnamon, on our side of the ocean.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Dec 17 - 09:13 PM

Cinnamon was a good one - a charismatic American Staffordshire Terrier who figured out how to do all sorts of things. She learned tricks and tasks very quickly, and I don't know how she did it, but she taught the other dogs. She was a hunter of local wildlife that got into our large back yard next to the creek and after several years of my spraying enzymes on skunked dogs, she mastered killing skunks without getting skunked, and the other two followed suit. Now that she's gone, I hope that 1) no more skunks get killed but if they do 2) the other dogs still know how to do it without getting sprayed.

She arrived as an injured stray big pup on Mother's Day 2005. I got a companion for her in September of that year, and the third one arrived in 2012 after my friend was injured and couldn't care for him. The other dogs were each more fond of Cinnamon than they were of the other, but today they are here together and we're rebuilding a pack dynamic with daily walks and taking time to reinforce skills. On Monday before I took Cinnamon to the vet we all went on a short walk across the road to their favorite destination, the woods. The two healthy ones rooted around and explored, Cinnamon walked slowly and smelled things, then she and I went to the vet.

She arrived here after living stray in those woods, and departed after a walk there - if my lovely girl wants to haunt me, she'll probably use the woods as her base. But she had a good life and a good death, so I think it will be only memories that accompany me.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Dec 17 - 04:27 AM

From: Mr Red - PM
Date: 18 Dec 17 - 04:55 AM
In the UK Tescos they are selling wines with names like:
Bottom Sniffer

Last night I was watching a tv repeat of an episode of The Chase, on which Bradley Walsh had problems with the name of the German skier 'Fanny Chmelar'

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jun 18 - 11:20 AM

Wonder how Bonzo3legs is getting on with Tiara.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 12:03 PM

And Acme has a new rescue dog!

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 12:11 PM

I haven't had a dog since the 1970s...

but my small scruffy dog's favourite toy was my hamster safely encased in it's plastic exercise ball...

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:01 PM

keberoxu - unfortunately for us, we decided last November that Tiara needed a home where she could have 2-3 hours exercise per day, and socialise with other dogs, which we could not give her. She was clearly becoming very bored on her own and she was beginning to destroy things in our home.

Fortunately, the daughter of a friend happened to be looking for a puppy. She lives in ideal dog walking country in Sussex, just 9 miles from the coast. Her mother who lives nearby had 5 dogs, so there was an instant pack for her to make friends with, after we delivered her at the beginning of last December. We receive updates & photos every few weeks on her progress, and she is very happy with her life now.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Senoufou
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:11 PM

Logie, the border collie I mentioned above, is now fully grown, and has another dog living with him - Molly, a gorgeous cocker spaniel (eight months old now) Molly is very affectionate, but Logie is a bit 'meh' with her. She doesn't give up though, and is determined he's going to like her!
The neighbour-across-the-road still goes in during the day to play with them both in their garden, and she told me that Molly gets on her lap, takes her hand very gently in her mouth and puts it on her to make her give her a cuddle!
Molly seems to like our cat Smokey too, but she's a bit bouncy and Smokey isn't too sure yet.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:18 PM

Ah, pfr!
I get SUCH a visual from your description:

the more-or-less transparent bubble-ball,
the little beastie inside doing its hamster-wheel thing,
and a HIGHLY interested small scruffy dog
watching its every move
and making the ball move around.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:19 PM

Tiara had a passion for ripping black plastic bags when she was with us, and still does apparently.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:33 PM

Well, all's well that ends well, Bonzo3legs,
although it would be nice
for your household to be owned by a companion animal
that was a good fit for you and yours.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Jun 18 - 01:45 PM

We intend to look for a dog after our holiday in September, possibly one which didn't make guide dog training.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Jun 18 - 11:57 PM

Actually it may be a while before
we hear about Acme's new friend Pepper,
because this new rescue dog,
Acme reports, is heartworm-positive.
Saintly human being that she is, she will
administer the heartworm cure with the help
of her veterinarian.

I've never had first-hand experience with heartworm treatment.
I hear third- or fourth-hand that the treatment
is extremely dangerous,
and that it takes, not days, but weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Jun 18 - 01:36 PM

There is a dog in the Mudcat member orbit
who eats ladies' knickers.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Jun 18 - 07:34 PM

My dog, Tina, has developed a fondness for picking blueberries. We live on eight acres, most of which is in its natural state, and wild blueberries are abundant. I pick berries from the upper branches while Tina grazes on the lower ones.

Subject: RE: BS: What are your dogs' favorite things?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Jun 18 - 01:13 PM

If I go before the wife, she will probably replace me soon after with a puppy...

Gives her something to look forward to...