On walks Mabel would decide she was going to sit and watch the world go by. She would just not move, sometimes I'd be standing around for nearly 10 minutes looking really strange. Apart from that she was never ever annoying oh no not once.
OK Coco's not REALLY a puppy (tell him that!), but he's another water-slurper, he will run in from a walk, slurp it all up, then trail it into my slippers as I'm changing out of my boots. The kitchen is ALWAYS awash.
All these posts are making me chuckle ,I missed a lot of the really trying baby puppy stuff as Dex was older when he came to us and time heals He did drive me mad with stealing tea towels though and he still has a penchant for nicking the toilet roll first thing in the morning.....he leaves it completely alone the rest of the day!
I think Strykers most annoying habbit, for me, is when it's time for bed. My dad likes to come over before work, quietly let Stryker out of his pen and he charges on my bed waking me on days that I don't have to get up. He will then lay down and pretend to be a sleep and crawl real slow, stopping if he thinks I wake up then proceeding until he is laying on my pillow... ..Then all of a sudden he'll jump up and actually doggy flop my face and lay there. The only thing that I can ever think of at that moment is, "I really hope that's not your little penis on my face." Once I'm up you think he would want to play? Nope! He then lays in the same exact spot I was and then goes to sleep. So I've kindly asked my father several times not to do this and he thinks it's the funnest thing in the world. So to make a believer out of my father, I got to return the favor today. I took Stryker for a little ride over to my fathers, used my key to enter his home. Stryker and I were like ninja's and snuck in to his room where I gently placed Stryker on his bed and well... You know the above question I ask myself about the whole little penis being on my face? I found the answer to that as my dad got a little more than just, "I hope that's not your little penis on my face." Lets just say my dad sleeps with his mouth open!
Zaba, my friend's Lab who is staying with us, gets a huge mouthful of water and dumps it on your knee. I get caught out every time!
When taken out for her last wee at around 11.30, insisting on eating snails that are all over the place because of recent rain and prodding toads who are (hopefully) in pursuit of the snails - oh and NOT weeing
Taking the heads off flowers..... Yesterday I planted some pots with some nice winter pansies..... This morning she has kindly taken all the flowers off for me ( and then spat them on the kitchen floor for good measure)
Right now, Judy is jumping up onto tables and worktops to see whether I've accidentally left something there she might like. She found a treat bag the other day so she can't walk past a worktop without checking, not even my bread's safe. She doesn't eat it, just shreds it. The other annoying thing is that when I tell her not to do something she does it MORE! So telling her to get down results in her jumping up more. Also she's not allowed in the bedrooms unsupervised but when I was cleaning in one the other day she jumped onto the bed, squatted and did the longest wee ever, with a completely straight face. She always goes outside, only wees inside at night on pads so I've no idea where that came from as she had access to the garden. I think she was doing it just to annoy me, and it worked because I had to make a trip to the launderette with the duvet.
I have to laugh at the water thing. My sister's cocker is a horror for this, as was her previous staffy. I prepared myself for constantly walking through puddles, but my two drink very daintily indeed. Just thought I'd put a little gloat in
Meany Ella is a slobbery, splashy drinker and she likes to spread that last mouthful across the room and onto the nearest hooman Her most annoying puppy habit has continued on after her 1st birthday. We named it "the Ella long-lick". Sometimes, when Ella decides to take a break from attempting to cover your entire body (both bare skin and clothes) in licks she often does this thing where she stretches her tongue out to do the biggest lick and then just stops and holds her warm wet tongue against you for a good 15-30 seconds! Usually it takes a few seconds for you to realise that you're being "long-licked" and by that time your clothes/skin are usually soaked
Yep, most puppy mischief has been grown out of but flooding-the-kitchen-when-having-a-drink is clearly with us for life!
Ooh, I just remembered another one! Ella used to dig the dirt out of the plant pots on our deck! We would always have lovely dirt piles next to each pot
Doug emptied a small pond of all it'd plants and pond weed and rearranged them on the kitchen floor. It was very pretty and very unexpected
I have no kids so our pool at the time had no fence around it. Dozer, my previous dog, had a nasty habbit of running along side of the pools edge then taking a pee in to the pool then turning with his butt and then he would go poo. After draining, scrubbing and sanitizing the pool for the 3rd time we got smart and put up a fence.
Zeke is another among the water slobbers ... that and when I sit down to eat he insists on playing retriever, constantly shoving whichever toy he wants to play with in my hand.
The water thing...I stopped mopping...we just have wet floors all the time now. But I find the crying most annoying..cry to get in the bathroom when i'm in there, cries to get out 1 minute later, then cries to come back in and on and on and on....I just keep the bathroom door open now oh, cries when ball is stuck, cries when no one playing with said ball, cries to get off bed (though she can jump off herself and got up by her own free will!!), cries when bored...
