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Of course, everyone thinks his or her dog is perfect, right? Yet, we can all find faults in all other dogs. For example, I’m glad my dog doesn’t pull too bad or bark a lot. I’m glad he stays in one spot in the car and shows no aggression.
Then again, I could list off 10 annoying things Ace does do. He can’t heel without a pinch collar or Gentle Leader, he begs pretty bad and let’s just say he licks himself inappropriately. But the most annoying habit Ace has other than his ball obsession is how fast he drinks his water.
Ace will drink and drink and drink so fast that he throws up. He used to never be able to leave any water in a bowl. He would drink the whole bowl immediately. It’s like he thought I was going to take it away even though I was the one who gave him the water in the first place. I did solve this problem by keeping a large bowl of water full at all times. He figured out the water isn’t going anywhere, so he doesn’t have to drink all of it. But he will still come in from outside or randomly walk by his bowl and drink for several minutes if I don’t stop him. Then he throws up all the water. It gets really old cleaning up the floor, sometimes more than once in a day.
Anyway. How about your dogs? What is your dog’s worst habit?
Email your dog-related question to me at Lindsay@thatmutt.com, and I’ll post it for others to answer.
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August 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
My old girl was a shoe chewer when young but then became a food beggar. She had a previous owner that fed her off his plate whenever he ate. I broke her of the habit eventually.
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August 12th, 2008 at 10:18 am
My dogs worst habit is barking. Big shocker since I have 4 Shelties here! LOL I have found it nearly impossible to retrain with multiple dogs, since once one barks it gets the whole crew going. When I only have one or two of them with me, (like when we’re traveling to trials), it’s so easy to manage. Oh well!
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August 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
My dog’s worse bad habit is pulling when we walk him–so annoying! But not even the teachers at the doggy school were able to correct this. Every walk, at least in the beginning, is a race, until he slows down later on.
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August 12th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Apollo eats socks and underwear… Eris eats poop and drinks water til she yacks, Hera barks way too much, Zeus walks when he poops and smacks his lips all the time (drives me nuts) and Brutus and Rufus are a too territorial.
I guess that about sums it up!
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August 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Ace begs too. One thing he doesn’t do is bark a lot, which is nice, but he does pull. Mayra, if you haven’t tried a Gentle Leader or a similar head collar with Amigo, it is worth a shot. Saint Lover, you are hilarious! Ace does the thing where he walks when he poops too. It drives me nuts. I hold his leash and he makes a circle of poop around me! Embarrassing!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:12 am
My little yorkie Bailey is also a ball freak, but besides that she’s perfect. My Jack Russel like to poo in/on flowers or bushes. Anything that touches his bum. He even does it against trees and posts. I have to be careful because there are some people on our block who love to garden and cut and trim their flowers… yuck!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Biggie marks indoors in our VT condo when we have other people over. He also sometimes pees if we leave him while my in-laws are around. It’s odd – he knows them and loves them, but if we leave him alone while they are around he may pee. If we leave him alone and no one is around, he won’t pee.
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August 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Eating my house piece by piece, no I exaggerate… but shredding anything paper is no.1, mostly if she can get it its my fault, mind you she can get books off the top of a 7foot book case… and boy does it make a hell of a mess
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