Mind games dogs play with humans

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Let the humans teach you a brand new trick. Learn it perfectly. Then when the humans try to demonstrate it to someone else, stare blankly back at the humans. Pretend you have no idea what they're talking about.

Make strangers feel sorry for you. When out for a walk, alternate between choking and coughing every time a strange human walks by.

Make your humans be patient. When you go outside to go pee, sniff around the entire yard as your humans wait. Act as if the spot you choose to go pee will ultimately decide the fate of the earth.

Show independence. When your human calls you to come back in, always take your time. Walk as slowly as possible back to the door.

Act like a convicted criminal. When the humans come home, put your ears back, tail between your legs, chin down and act as if you have done something really bad. Then watch as the humans frantically search the house for the damage they think you have caused. (Note: This only works when you have done absolutely nothing wrong.)

Draw attention to the human. When out for a walk always pick the busiest, most visible spot to go poop. Take your time and make sure everyone watches. This works particularly well if your humans have forgotten to bring a plastic bag.

Take charge at bath time. After your humans give you a bath, DON'T LET THEM TOWEL DRY YOU! Instead, run to their bed, jump up and dry yourself off on the sheets. This is especially good if it's right before your humans' bedtime.

Make your own rules. Don't always bring back the stick when playing fetch with the humans. Make them go and chase it once in a while.

Hide from your humans. When your humans come home, don't greet them at the door. Instead, hide from them and make them think something terrible has happened to you. Don't reappear until one of your humans is panic-stricken and close to tears. This is a good one - don't overuse it and your humans will be so relieved to find that you're OK that it could get many doggie treats.

Start their day off right. Wake up one hour before the alarm clock is set to go off and make the humans take you out for your morning pee. As soon as you get back inside, fall asleep. Humans can rarely fall back asleep after going outside; this will drive them nuts.

Thanks to Doug for sending these. He says his dog is a master of all

Comments

[Jen]

BWAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Oh those are perfect!

[jill]

Very good, now do you mind if I hide your post from Lady and Daisy? They (especially Daisy)have enough ideas of their own! LOL

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[Karen Shanley]

OMG! Wiping the tears of laughter off my face... sigh. Very funny.

[Laura]

Let's see, my dog does the following: Make strangers feel sorry for you, Make your humans be patient (what gets me is that she finds the perfect spot and then pees several inches away) and Make your own rules.

[jackie]

Annie the cat laughed when she read this...she thinks dogs are novices at training their masters...or as she calls me..slave...
pretty funny...

[Kelleigh]

"When you go outside to go pee, sniff around the entire yard as your humans wait. Act as if the spot you choose to go pee will ultimately decide the fate of the earth."

Hehe! Yes, getting the right spot appears to be so very important!

[Tracey]

I have experienced so many of these from my dogs I think they must definitely have these written down in a rule book somewhere!! 8)

[Mary Jo Hostnik]

Yeah, my dogs know these games very well! Especailly the "draw attention to your human" game! How do they know I ran out of poopie bags when we are out for a walk?!?! And, do the purposely "hold some back" for the walk? Everybody knows the routine, you want to go to the park, you have to go potty first. So how is it they have to go again, when we're on the paved area leading to the forest trails?!?!

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[Faith]

My dog would employ every single one of these tactics with glee and no shame if given the chance. As it is she still plays one or two of them on me every now and then.

[Jen]

Thanks for the laugh ... I am sure my fur girls wrote some of these tactics!

[sheila]

Oh my this was good. One time we were convinced our Springer Samantha had somehow run away. We called for her inside and out and then proceeded to jump in the car to search the neighborhood. Panicked and heartsick, we returned home to find her resting in our bedroom. Why the devil she didn't come I'll never know.

[Syed Zaeem]

I found this post really interesting :)

[Jean the Dog Tricks Master]

"After your humans give you a bath, DON'T LET THEM TOWEL DRY YOU! Instead, run to their bed, jump up and dry yourself off on the sheets. This is especially good if it's right before your humans' bedtime."

My dog does exactly that!!! I always have to make sure that I have towels in the bathroom with me otherwise my dog runs away and goes crazy on the carpet. She'll run around and do loops and figure eights in circles, so fun to watch.

[Badutzio]

This site is great, glad I found it! Lots of cool stuff on here!

[remotepc support]

Great blog! thanks for sharing.

[Dog Boutique]

All of my dogs are experts at every one of those. I especially like the one about hiding from your humans. Years ago we had a yorkie that did that to me. I thought he was outside and search the back yard, but could not find him. I looked under the sofa and the bed. I even looked in the closet (he got trapped in there once when I was putting away the vacuum cleaner and he wandered in).

I called him and he didn't answer. I was worried he may have escaped from the fenced yard, so I went outside and looked in the front and side yard, ran around the block to see if he was wandering the neighborhood and couldn't find him.

As I was returning back to the house and passed by the living room window, there he was sitting on the window sill looking at me. He had gotten up on the chair and went behind the curtain and sat on the window sill looking outside.

From then on the first place we looked for him was on the window sill. He really scared us that day.

[COLBYROCKS1]

Oh, that's awesome!! My dog will NOT fetch a stick or anything like that-he only gets squeaky frogs and rabbits.
My dog fancies himself a rabbit hunter (even though he is a fluffy medium-sized poodle) and is very serious about it. Sometimes he disappears under our very dirty deck for hours and refuses to come out. Once we had to bring another dog over and a ton of roast beef!!

[Website SEO]

Haha nice one! we nev3er know what they are thinking... but then again, when you get home and welcome those licks, just think about the last place they were licking! hehe