I have a 1 1/2 year old Great Pyrenees mix. I call him my 98.6% good boy. He has great temperament, doesn’t pull on walks and is just overall a really good and well behaved dog so far by nature. (I didn’t know they made them at the factory like this lol)
But as a sit and watch him in the yard right now, he’s doing what GPs love to do. They kinda dig their own spots and just kinda like to gaurd the yard and he’s content. I personally have been trying to get him to lay on a raised dog bed because I feel like fleas or allergens are getting to him but he ain’t about the raised dog bed life.
I dunno just rambling 🤷 it might be something we continue to work on or I might let him have a pass since he seems to enjoy it. But I should mention that he does sleep with me and likes to burrow under the covers, which is another thing I’m trying to dissuade but sometimes when I’m in deep sleep he wiggles his way in and get away with it.
Do any of you give your dogs similar “passes”?
At my mother’s there was a “no dogs on the furniture rule”. A few years before I moved out she had a foster fail called Ayk. He was so energetic but always friendly and everyone loved him but he tried to stretch this rule as far as possible.
This is an example:
And some of you may say: that’s just a coincidence he’s in touch with the seat. But I can assure you: it’s calculated. As soon as he had established contact he started inching forward, slowly but steadily.
On the couch he usually started with his butt, just touching and suddenly he sat next to you, acting totally normal.
It was tolerated way too often because it was hilarious to watch him and see how his little brain came up with a “walkaround” for the rule. He was a very good boy!
I love this lol. Thank you for sharing the story. It’s pretty amusing how they try to inch their way in and stretch some boundaries.
I love the fact that they know what they’re doing. We had a second dog around that time. She waited until everyone was in bed and the went to sleep on the couch.
In the rare occasions she was too deep asleep to notice someone coming down the stairs and she got busted, she was just lying there, wagging her tail like crazy, her eyes literally squeezed shut. If she can’t see me, how should I be able to see her?
She was also a huge trash digger and whenever my mother found trash in the dog bed and asked her where the trash came from, she always looked at my younger sister like “I don’t want to accuse anyone here, but you may want to ask your daughter u.u”.
Dog tax - Trixie the trash queen making a new friend