Not my puppo, she knows exactly what side her bread is buttered on. The one time the gate was left open and she got out and hung out by the truck to go on a ride like anytime I open the front door for her.
I love her pearls. She’s adorable!
Good princess doggie.
She’s so good, I don’t know what I do differently to get such sweet well behaved dogs but I am 2/2 with mine so far. Took her disc golfing the other day and another group said “wow your dog is so well behaved “. I was very proud.
The only time my first dog got out I stood on the porch and called for her and she trotted right back.
What an absolute sweetheart <3
when I was a kid- pretty much a toddler- we had this dog named Mooky. Mooky was a beagle from the pound. (not a rescue, an actual pound.)
Mooky was a total fucker. He’d escape and go running across the neighborhood and the not-as-yet-developed lots behind our house.
Mooky also hated people. I was the only person that dog tolerated. (and I was like 4 or so… so, like yeah. I wasn’t gonna train him.)
Other shenanigans were destroying 3 sets of curtains, escaping at night to go play with the coyotes (and by ‘play’, Mooky liked to pick fights with them.) Another time, mom had bought a pound of expensive, hand crafted, chocolate truffles. Ultra-dark. Yeah. Mooky didn’t die. that dog was indestructible. He did leave a giant diueretic shit behind the couch that was about the size and shape of one of a giant hersey’s kiss. (About as big around as a dinner plate.)
How indestructable was that incredibly vexxing asshole, you ask? One day I was being babysat by a neighbor. I had gotten into the backyard and came across a rattler (southern CA. lots of undeveloped land.) That dog showed up got bit twice and still didn’t die. He died at a nice, cantankerous age of probably twelve to fifteen.
Was Mooky a bad dog? just a misunderstood asshole. All I’m gonna say is you never saw him and BatDog in the same place.
You had a beagle who was immune to chocolate, too? So did I, when I was a kid. Mine ate an entire gift box of Godiva chocolates, after snatching it right out from under the Christmas tree in the middle of the night. Insofar as I can tell they had no effect on the little bastard whatsoever.
We found the wrappers for each chocolate glued to the floor in the morning, because he’s licked them nearly geometrically flat against the floorboards.
Mooky is a great name though.
My childhood beagle was just sleep and eat anything in sight chocolate, onions, chicken carcass, drywall, anything that would physically fit in her mouth or not. Never tried escaping but figured out childlocks to the trash bin. lived well past what anyone expected (21F).
Oh yeah. Food was not safe around him.
In hindsight, that may have been why he liked me.
He also figured out the trash bin locks. Mooky was a rapscallion, to be sure. Once, he ate a second wedding cake.
Yes. You read that right. My mom had baked a wedding cake for a friend. He ate that. She baked a second. He ate that. Baked a third, and had it locked up at the friends place.
One time she at a small hole in the top of a pizza box and ate the whole pizza inside
hehe. Yeah. That’s a lot of effort to being sneaky.
You get most of those things in a prison too. Doesnt make you enjoy being there.
Prisons are peak comfymaxxing
Well, except for the slavery
Slavery is cozy, don’t have to figure out what to do or where to work, you are fooling the chumps owning you to do all the thinking while you do all the cozy manual labour
PragerU wants to know your location.
I’m not sure I’d call what you get in prison “endless love”, it’s usually more of a friends with benefits situation…
Hence the use of the word “most” in my comment. Although “receiving love” is very subjective and while people can surely try to give love to dogs, they cant reliably know if it was received.
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Dog needs more walks.
When I was a kid we had a couple dogs at different points, who were exactly like this, run at any chance.
Then I came to Germany, and the culture here (as compared to my family at least) is that they take walking the dog very seriously, like multiple times a day, every day. I was not used to this at all, but I haven’t heard of dogs ever just running away since I’ve been here.
So it could just be that my dog-owning friends here are just very good trainers, but it seems like giving dogs lots and lots of opportunities to get outside, exercise and explore makes them a lot less likely to try escape on their own
Regular walks are the absolute best thing you can do for your dog and yourself.
Across suburban humanity, there are countless millions of dogs who get to stare at the same walls every day, all day, and they are creatures designed for roaming and running down prey. For that matter, so are you.
Dogs get depressed and anxious, people get depressed and anxious. Walking helps with that.
My dog has really impressive recall for his young age and the level of effort I put into training him, when we aren’t on our property. But when I let him out to poop at 5 am it’s like he’s never heard of me.
they take walking the dog very seriously, like multiple times a day, every day.
How much is it around where you are?
There’s another German thing with dogs: it’s typical to walk your dog without a leash - something that would make people freak out where I live now. Maybe German dogs are a bit more used to obeying verbal commands.
Corgis:
Born to outrun you.
Built to out-fit you.
Goddammit, Muffin! I do not have time for this! I have to be at work soon!
Imagine being forced to consume the same food, get the same enrichment, and exist in the same house all your life. You’d get bored and want to see what else is out there too.
For most of the dog/human interaction, dogs have always worked: herding, hunting, guarding, transportation, etc. Up until the 19th century we selected and bred them for their instinctive behaviors that are useful to us.
Then during the Victorian age we started fucking up their genetics primarily for their looks and ignoring their instinctive behaviors.
So today we have animals with fucked up genetics and preprogrammed behaviors being kept by people with no idea what the animals need. So the animals get into all sorts of trouble.
My dog will go outside on her own. Not leave the unfenced yard, and on the rare occasion she gets left outside when things are hectic, she will go up to the door and scratch to let us know we forgot someone important. The only time she turns into the flash is the moment food hits her dish. She can’t eat fast enough.
Doggo: “Stop holding me prisoner!!”
Dogs who keep returning home are probably suffering from Stockholm Syndrome 🐶
#NotAllDogs
We had a dog like that when we first get her. Once she realised that she gets to go on long walks everyday, she just wants to stick around us.
Renton! REEENNNTOOOONNNN!!! JESUS CHRIST RENTON!!!
Edit: For the uninitiated.
Fenton, lol. Apparently it was also confused with Benton https://www.tntmagazine.com/archive/benton-the-dog-is-actually-called-fenton/
Oh. My. God. I can’t believe I had Renton in my head instead of Fenton.
My bones are red I’m so embarrassed. I’m not editing it though. It’s my scarlet letter.
Best thing I did was train my dogs to sit before I’ll open the door. Youngest one (a Russell terrier mix) used to bolt out (thankfully the yard is fenced).
Probably also helps that we have a “going outside” routine too. They don’t wear their collars inside so before we go out, they have to sit while I put their collars on them.
My childhood dog was like this. My current dog only ever wants to be with me. Door wide open, doesn’t matter as long as she is with me.
Maybe… just maybe… dogs are animals that crave open spaces and like to run in the open, and feel stressed and agonized when locked in small spaces
That’s our cats. They can get through the door without you even seeing them do it. The dogs just sit and look at the open door unless we tell them to go through.
Once my cat ran out the door and back in, with a lizard in her mouth, before I could close it or yell for her. Most efficient hunt I have ever witnessed.
Haha that funny
