Dogleg

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Dog vs. Dogleg: A Theory

For Min and others who found the dog's battle with his rear limb at least as disturbing as funny...

Not to worry. A dog trainer who saw that video wrote that some dogs do that to impress their owners with how valiantly they protect what's theirs - and simultaneously warn us to leave the bone alone.

I like this explanation. beauty of it is, it means the dog thinks that we think the leg is trying to steal from him.

Heehee. I love dogs. They're not smart enough to take over completely, but they're smart enough to make it unnecessary. And they give us credit for only as much intelligence as they can see.

 

[neonlyte]

For Min and others who found the dog's battle with his rear limb at least as disturbing as funny...

Not to worry. A dog trainer who saw that video wrote that some dogs do that to impress their owners with how valiantly they protect what's theirs - and simultaneously warn us to leave the bone alone.

I like this explanation. beauty of it is, it means the dog thinks that we think the leg is trying to steal from him.

Heehee. I love dogs. They're not smart enough to take over completely, but they're smart enough to make it unnecessary. And they give us credit for only as much intelligence as they can see.

Your dog any good with wall sockets?

 

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Your dog any good with wall sockets?

My dog is...different. Challenged, you might say.

She has a new arch-nemesis: Mirror Dog.

She first noticed Mirror Dog staring at her two days ago. The mirror has been in the same spot for ten years.

When my dog was 2 years old, she noticed the ceiling fan for the first time and became hysterical. Turning the fan off didn't help. I had to get a stepladder and show her that I wasn't afraid to touch the fan. She was okay after that.

The dog loves my mom - unless she wears white pajamas. Other pajamas are okay, but the white ones are dangerous. Like Mirror Dog.

Other dangers she protects us from: A bag of groceries on the kitchen counter. Not every bag of groceries; just certain ones, on certain days. A houseplant that used to be on one side of the room and is now on the other side of the room!



So far, she gets along fine with her own legs.


Edited to add: She's funniest when she's multitasking: protecting us from the mailman while chewing a bone. You can see how conflicted she is by the furrowed brow, as she tries to do justice to the barking - for the sake of her honor - without putting the bone down. If she puts it down, someone might take it. (Her leg?)

 

[McKenna]

Heehee. I love dogs. They're not smart enough to take over completely, but they're smart enough to make it unnecessary.

I think this is very profound. I love dogs, too.

 

[minsue]

Edited to add: She's funniest when she's multitasking: protecting us from the mailman while chewing a bone. You can see how conflicted she is by the furrowed brow, as she tries to do justice to the barking - for the sake of her honor - without putting the bone down. If she puts it down, someone might take it. (Her leg?)

Wait til she has two, count 'em - two, tennis balls in her mouth and then barks at interloper that wants one of them....the sudden horror on the poor dog's face watching the balls catapult across the yard due to the power of said bark is priceless.

 

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Wait til she has two, count 'em - two, tennis balls in her mouth and then barks at interloper that wants one of them....the sudden horror on the poor dog's face watching the balls catapult across the yard due to the power of said bark is priceless.

I had a cocker spaniel who was obsessed with tennis balls. Couldn't sleep unless she was holding one. Once, she got two in her mouth side-by-side and couldn't get them out. My ex had to peel her jowls back with his fingers while I extracted one of the tennis balls. Poor dog could have had lockjaw.

God knows how wolves and primitive wild dogs survive when tennis balls get stuck in their jowls!

I suppose my dog is fortunate that my mom wasn't visiting during the same week that Mirror Dog showed up to torment her. That, plus the White Pajamas, might have sent her over the edge.