Habits

All dogs have routines.. some stranger than others. I always think it's funny to hear the little weird habits our sheepies have.
Atlas will not go out of the house in the morning without a mouthful of stuff. He scoops up everything in site, toys, underwear, towels, everything and as much of everything as he can... then he will go outside and pee. If there's nothing on the floor on his path to the door he goes crazy and try's to tug your pants down, so that he can have his security blanket.

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when nico was a bit older that he didn't devour his rawhide bones in one sitting, he would pace the house looking for a perfect hiding spot.
he would finally pick a spot that was in plain site under an open style end table, this may have gone on for an hour. then he would show up in the family room and visit or plop down and within minutes it was if he said too himself, :bulb: oh my god, thats not hidden well enough. he'd take off for the bone and start the whole process over again. my family would pass each other lol stating, yep, he's still at it.
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Every evening HEART will get her oes stuffie and take it to her tuffet~~~ She then begins her sucking and paddling routine...after a few paddles, you can see her eyes glaze over and she enters her "HAPPY PLACE"...it is very amusing and mezmorizing to see her get to that BLISS state!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

COZ will take any type of shoe he can find, and one by one, he will place it on his tuffet~~~ again, very entertaining to see him sneak through the family room tiptoeing to his tuffet!!!! :D

PEARL????? No endearing routines for this old gal!!!!! She just watches the other crazies do their thing and I swear I see her shaking her head in disgust!!!!! :roll: :oops: :oops: :wink:
Those are all so cute! :lol: :hearts:

Bert and Abby are required to sit calmly (out of the way) while I fix their bowels for meals, then go to their respective places to eat when I tell them its OK.

Bert has this whole weird routine of needing to do several laps around the dining room table before he will sit to wait on his meal :roll: Sometimes he will do the laps, go to sit, then give me this look, like "Wait! Hang on, I need more laps!" before getting up to run around the table a few more times. :lol:
every morning at 6am i have dreamer jump in bed and lay across me so i can't get up !! he weighss more then me so i have to i have to struggle to get out form under.
My dogs have to bury their goodies.

Asterisk likes to bury her cookies in the corner of the couches. Once she places the cookie in the couch she will use her nose to put magical dust that is invisible to the human eye until it is quite covered. Her FAVORITE hiding spot is under Josh's rump when he's watching tv :roll:

Wendel ALWAYS has to bury his food in his dish with the SAME magical dust (Where DO they find it? :wink: ) He has to bury it, stare at the bowl, bury it again, stare once more, touch his food with his nose, etc.
HAHAHA these are all so funny... keep them coming!

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I guess my dogs do have some habits. I HAVE to leave the outside door to the kennel cracked a bit when I go out to let Mariah in from the lower run. She makes a bee-line for that door & if it is closed tight, she rams it with her head! Then she turns around & runs like a bat of of "you know where" towards me & misses me by a few inches. Then back to the door. If I'm not moving fast enough, it's a second trip back at me! A lot easier to let the door cracked a bit so she can push it open & head to her kennel to get her food! And all this from a 10 year old girl! The boys just stay out of the way & then follow her in. Funny but neither of them will attempt to open the door when it is cracked. 8O
Patch has her huge stoneware water bowl in the kitchen on a stand, there is a door between the kitchen and dining room. She hardly ever goes in the dining room EXCEPT to walk in from the kitchen, turn around, and drink her water standing in the dining room with her head in the kitchen - hse never drinks standing in the kitchen, but when finished walks through the kitchen with a waterfall dripping from her beard. I cannot explain it.

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Tiggy is like Bert, both my dogs have to go sit on their beds while I make their dinner, and Tiggy has to run full pelt to the pantry door and then do a couple of spins before she will run and get on her bed to wait. If I am foolish and mention the word "tucker" before I get near the pantry door then she has to run around the island bar and repeat the process until I am close to the pantry door where the food is. THEN she runs to her bed. :roll:

Rastus does the "looking for a place to bury his bone" routine in the back courtyard. It is paved so there is only 4 large urns with plants, one 5 inch by 5 inch square of soil near a fence post and another slightly smaller square down the side walk way. He runs the same route around the car, past the outdoor furniture, look in his kennel,check out the pots, check out the patches of soil, over and over for at least 20 mins before putting his bone in the same little patch of soil. :oops: Sometimes I feel so mean I am tempted to get him a sand pit but our courtyard is crowded enough as it is and the local cats would probably just use it as a toilet.
LOL that is completely absurd! How funny! I would laugh out loud every time.

cinemarco wrote:

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Oscar is the King of Routine. :D I have never, ever met a dog that is so concerned about what is done and when. For example, Oscar gets fed four times a day (to take meds). Since we brought him home at ten weeks old, feeding time goes like this. I get his bowl, go to the pantry to get his dry food, get his canned food out of the fridge, and take it all to the counter to mix it together. He follows me EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. I can't decide if, A), he's afraid I am going to get sidetracked somewhere in the process, B), he thinks I am trying to poison him and he wants to make sure I have no time to slip something untoward into his food, or C), he afraid I am going to screw something up. 8) (My money's on "C".)

Also, Oscar only drinks water under very specific circumstances. Usually, it's when he's told me that he has to go out, and I am right there, ready to put on his leash and collar. THEN he decides he can't live another minute without a drink of water. So I stand there, and stand there, waiting for him to finish so I can wipe his face and THEN take him out. Oscar is very high maintenance. :roll:

Laurie and His Majesty, King Oscar
Valerie wrote:
LOL that is completely absurd! How funny! I would laugh out loud every time.

cinemarco wrote:

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That has to be one of the most precious things I have ever seen! Loved it! Thanks for sharing :D
As we get up early we normally go to bed at about 10pm. The other night we were watching a movie so it was much later.

at about 11.30pm George stood at the bottom of the stairs and he kept looking up and crying.

He huffed and sighed until I got up put the upstairs light on, and gave him his bed time bsicuit. He went upstairs to bed and didn't come back down

He is a creature of habit
If it isn't bolted down out the door with Langley. He doesn't chew anything he just races around the yard and flips it in the air. Bucking like a horse and acting like a goof. If he could talk I thing he would say: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! Yippeeee!
Atlas is just too funny!!

Panda is somewhat similar to Atlas, in the fact that, when we play catch...she cant have just the rope in her mouth...I start with the rope, toss it, she runs and gets it...but at the last minute, she veers away and goes for the other rope or ball...she has to have two in her mouth, in order for her to have a ''good'' game...

At nine pm, she is ready for bed....if we dont tell her to get up on the bed (she only goes on it when invited..and dont ask me, i have NO idea how we got so lucky with this), she will pace the hallway, come and PRESS her head into my lap as if to say, ''Its TIME!"

oh and the most simple and funniest thing that she does is stand at the back door...staring....willing the door to open....she doesnt whine, look at me, come and nag me...just stares intently at the door thinking.."I know i can make this thing open!"
Every morning after Bella and Simon get fed, I usually give them a treat. If I don't immediately get the treat, Bella will flip her ceramic food dish over and over until she gets it! And yes, I have had to replace the bowl more than once..... :roll:
All my sheepies have their own inside kennels that i have fashioned into a den like thing because ive heard all dogs like the feeling of that. Well, they are all always left open and when its go outside time, only Clyde will run inside his and bark at the others through the door. Then he is the last one to go outside.

Ashely will always spill her food bowl over and then use her nose to scoop it all back in and then eat it.
HAHA they are so nutty
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