ok so we have 2 labs tilly who is 4 and henry who is 4 months, tilly is my dog and henry is technically bought for someone else. But he keeps following me laying with me and stays with me all the time and he cries if i go out or leave the room is it true the dog chooses their owner?
We are a large family with 2 dogs Hattie is 8 years old and Charlie is 5 years old. Hattie is very much my dog because I feed, treat, groom, walk and train her. If I go out for the day Hattie can be found sitting at the gate watching for my return If we go out in the car together and I let her out she greets me as if we haven't seen each other for months. I feed, treat, groom and partly train Charlie but David walks and trains him most of the time. Charlie is probably more David's dog but I am a very close second but Charlie loves people . I think as I am around more during they day they both follow me like shadows. I once heard that a dog likes the person that feeds it but I don't know how true that is. I do think that dogs have a special relationship with a person, Hattie and I definitely dox
Juno is very much my dog probably more so as we spent lots of time without OH around just the two of us and the cats - brilliant. Juno absolutely adores OH and goes loopy with him, but she is most definitely my dog
I work long days and OH spends way more time with Quinn and brings her everywhere. I feed two meals, him one; I do training (including classes) and we do both walk her, together and separate. She most definitely is more attached to him - cries when he gets out of the car, watches him leave from the window etc. She chooses to be in the room he is in 90% of the time. I tell myself it's because she is used to me leaving...
Same in our house. Harley is very much my dog, but does go loopy when IH gets home as he plays rough with her
Same at our house, BUT .... both my and my sister's previous dogs, devoted to Sis and I, would abandon us for their Grandma. We walked down the trail, Grandma turned back home first, the dogs went with Grandma. We went to the park to walk the dogs while Grandma tended her garden plot there, the dogs went with Grandma. We didn't mind.
My two are definitely mine. But I do almost all the fun stuff with them, so it's not surprising They still get super excited when they see J, but it's me they follow round.
Never thought Midge liked memuch she never had any time for anyone really just wanted to do her own thing. she needed me for protection fromthingsshe didn't like and would take advantage of this. She was always a strange dog she never greets anyone even someone she's seen every day for 10 years. She plots and she plans and is very knowing as my vet says. I spent my time with her finding things she likes to do and ways to train her which are kind but also stop her form injuring herself or getting into trouble. she's been the hardest dog ever. The truth leaked out a few years ago after a unexpected hospital stay for me. She adores me as much as I do her she never left my side when I got back and just sat at my feet and gazed at me when I was sleeping apparently. she doesn't show it like the boys and she's been a hard hard dog to love but finding that she loves me just a bit tiny tiny bit and that she did miss me makes me smile. I definately don't love her the same way as the boys they've been easy to love she's complicated and demanding in ways that they aren't, but the understanding and deep abiding love that has come from it has been very rewarding. I don't love her any less than the others but its diiferent. Moo as my friend says is a very "different" labrador
Aw, that's lovely. My Willow is a lot more aloof than Shadow and a lot more challenging in lots of ways, because she's so sensitive, but I still know she loves me and she's my little angel
Fred and Annie are my dogs. I feed them, walk them, play with them. If they waited to be feed by my OH they would of died of hunger by now
My dogs are definitely mine. I do everything for them from feeding to exercise and they follow me everywhere. Bracken does desert me to have cuddles with hubby on the sofa of an evening but Lucan is always at my feet. I used to have a Weimaraner before Bracken, he was my very special, once in a lifetime dog, a right pain in the bum at times but tuned in to me to the exclusion of everyone else. In fact he totally ignored my OH until he was about 7 yrs old, which didn't go down too well!
Moo ignores everyone except one friend and she will not even respond if someone else throws a ball for her. She just looks at them and thinks "and?" then "get it yourself" My OH once said you spoil them dogs they get fed before me and everything. I pointed out the dogs may get fed first but they can't open the food tins themselves so i do them first but I also said and who's needs get seen to last then? Mine, I look after everyone else first and see to their comforts, but if he wanted to look after himself or even take over I would be happy to sit and wait until its my turn. He's never complained since
Molly is my dog, she was bought for me because I love having a dog. My husband does not like dogs, but indulges me as he knows how much I love having a dog. I trained her, feed her, walk her etc. Whose feet does she sit at in the evening? HIS! Stinking little traitor
Charlie just responds to what is rewarding - he values attention, cuddles, activity and food. I represent the best rewards to him most of the time because I'm much more likely to do something interesting that will give him the opportunity to earn food. But at certain times, OH is more rewarding - Charlie gets to lick OH's breakfast egg plate, is more likely to get a cuddle from OH than from me in the evenings (OH watches telly, compatible with cuddling a dog, I'm on my laptop) and so on. Charlie will jump up and follow OH to the kitchen any time of day but he won't follow me in the evenings, he will in the morning. This is just a straightforward result of OH feeding him pretty much constantly during human food preparation but me never apart from Charlie gets one corner of my mid morning toast, and that's it. It's difficult to say whether Charlie is my dog or OH's dog. It varies depending on what rewards are most likely.
Coco loves OH, they lie on the floor together, he encourages Coco to jump up when he comes home, he does most of the feeding and they play together. But Coco, I'm told, is my dog. He works MUCH better for me, walks better for me and learns quickly from me - I do nearly all of the walking and training. On reflection - I think were equal in Coco's eyes, but different.
