Does your dog do this?

[Hee Yung Lee]

There are some things that Bogart does and I was wondering if anyone else's dogs do it too. I'll start with this:

When I go to the bathroom I am usually too lazy to close the door all the way...so I'll be sitting on the toilet, doing my business, and then here comes Bogart. He doesn't just come in to say hi and then leave, he'll actually sit down and just watch me. Why does he do this? Is it because I watch him when he goes? Although that's probably stretching it because he may not even realize we're doing the same thing. He doesn't do it all the time and it doesn't bother me, but I was just wondering if any other dogs do this.

If anyone else wants to find out if other people's dogs do something their dogs do, go ahead and add it here. :)

[Rowena Fry]

Yep, my pup does it too, although she usually doesn't stay. Sometimes she'll lie down on the bathroom mat, like she's keeping me company. I think that's what it is though, a mixture of wanting to be near you and wondering what you're doing.

I have to be careful though cos on several occasions Gum Gum has done the whole Andrex puppy advert thing! I don't know if you have the same advert in the States, but they have it in England, when the little boy is on the toilet and the lab puppy jumps up and steals all the toilet paper! It' so cute!

[Melanie Xarti]

Bogie's just making sure you don't slip out the secret back door in the bathroom! :)
But, yeah... Waldo and Peanut do that too. But they don't watch... they just follow me in and lay down as soon as I'm through the door. Sometimes I can't even get out of the shower since they take up the whole floor in front of me. Peanut's a little more independent, so she might lose interest and go somewhere else. But Waldo can't let me out of his sight.
Waldo does something I find highly amusing. He's spoiled rotten when it comes to food. Friends often joke that he eats better than most people. But he needs to get anything and everything he can. Anyway... if Waldo feels like he's had an especially tasty meal, he gets all excited afterwards and must rub himself against the length of the couch... up one way, and back the other way.... His tail wiggles the whole time, and he looks so excited! If I come near him during this after dinner ritual, he'll do a little happy dance, hopping up from his front paws only, opening his mouth.... We say he goes "ham crazy". It's too funny to watch. :dogrun:

[Cecile Vargo]

I don't notice my dogs doing that - but they don't have access to the bathroom most of the time. My cats however - cannot stand it when the door is closed and they can't come in to be with whoever is in there.

My late dog Jessie, loved to go in the bathroom and take the roll of toilet paper down the hall! She did it even when she could barely get up to walk in the last two weeks of her life. I couldn't scold here, I was just glad she still had the spunk at 14 1/2 and obviously ill, to do so.

The first dog & the cats used to play with the toilet paper roll together, or they plot together on stealing kleenex. I was convinced the cats would start pull the kleenex or toilet paper just so the dog could continue it and chew it up afterwards.

[Krista Winegardener]

Months ago,my dog started raiding the kitty litter box that's in the bathroom,so we now have a gated bathroom and she only goes in there once in a while for a doggy bath.

She does do something,though,tha t I haven't noticed other dogs doing.So it's nice to be able to ask in here! My dog seems to talk.She is very vocal when playing with other dogs but she also 'talks' right after barking.With the playing,she kind of forms vowelish sounds deep in her throat,like oh wow wow or argh aaaargh aargh.It's not a growl,more like half-formed words.Oh well,it's hard to explain but the people at the dog park think it's really funny.

After barking,usually a brief guard bark at home,she'll stop the barking because I've taught her as best I can to defer to me to check out any threats and not to bark on and on.She'll continue to mumble,though,like she's grinding her teeth and saying no no no deep in her throat.Again,it's not a growl but more of a mumbling to herself,like she's forming almost words in her throat.It really sounds like she's saying no no no.

Does anyone else have a 'talking' dog? If so,what breed or kind of dog do you have?

[Eva Horn]

Yeah my dog "talks" usually when he wants something...
Going to the bathroom or just attention..
It's the cutest noise!!! :rofl: it really sounds like he's talking....well like he's mumbling under his breath...... :rolling:

He's a Jack Russel Terrier, our Dusty baby.... :Puppy:

[Jill Ramsey]

Finnegan will "go to the bathroom" with me. It's usually in there that he wants a hug.
He's also very vocal. Sometimes, he tells a whole story with one yawn. When I come home from work, he's in his crate, and will proceed to tell me about the whole day (I think). It's really funny, he doesn't bark or growl when playing. I guess he knows it play, and saves barking and growling for when he thinks it's really necessary. :rolleyes:

[Hee Yung Lee]

LOL! Aw, Waldo, nothing like a good, filling meal!

Bogart has never chewed up the toilet paper, but that's because I keep it up on the tank where he is unable to get to it, but I am sure he'd love to get his paws on some of it. :p

Bogart also does the talking thing. He'll do it when he wants to play but usually only with my boyfriend. He'll get a toy in his mouth, go over to my boyfriend, and "talk." It's so funny!!

[Luciann]

Yes Frodo does it more so than Tika does. Tika will come in to be petted while i am not the toilet. Frodo on the other hand wants to be petted, will get in my lap and the thing i find the funnest (though you might not) is he peers between the seat and bowl to see what i am doing.


I think it is mostly cause he wants to be with you and thinks you are sneaking out without him....lol

[Luciann]

As for the talking, well Frodo has this high pitched moan when another friend do is about and he wants to go out to play.

I have a friend who has a rott that i use to take care of and he would talk when he wanted my attention. Espeically if he thought it was bath time and i was not moving fast enough. and he would just wiggle his whole body and chat up a storm to get me moving...lol

[Cecile Vargo]

Well, Maggie is rott/lab, and it looks like she gets the talking gene from both her mom & dad. She definitely talks all of the time. She sounds like a frustrated little kid sometimes - with sighs and grunts, and all sorts of noises. You definitely can't ignore her!

[Jill Ramsey]

Finn does the frustrated thing, too. Along with the PLOP! down on the floor. Reminds me of when my kids were teens!!

[heathea]

My two follow me around the house, to the bathroom, to the basement, wherever I go, they want to be there, even if my husband is home and on the couch. My husband says they follow me around as if dog biscuits are going to fall out of my butt. I don't know why I find that funny, but I do. :)

[Luciann]

yea that is pretty funny. Frodo wants to be with me so bad that if i cross teh baby gate in the front door he will jump the gate. Fortunately he will only do it when i have told him that it is okay, not that he does not want to all the time but he will wait for me to tell him it is okay and that chi can jump.

I have found that when he is irritated at me he will follow me to the bathroom and take a roll of toilet paper out of the cabinet (until i put the door back on) and put it on the floor place one front paw on it and then begin to pick at it the entire time just staring at me.....the first time he did it i laughed since he picked about 5 nibbles out of it and then turned around and walked away...like "see i can do what i want"

[Sherri]

Baxter will follow me into the bathroom. When I first get home, he will usually he will try to jump up on my lap so I can hold him. If I have been home for a while, he will come in to see what I am doing, then leave.

My mom's dogs (14 yr old Cocker Spaniel and 14 yr old German Shepard) will follow you into the bathroom and both will sit at your feet until you are done.. The German Shepard will talk to you the entire time.. It is kind of funny.

[Justine Archuleta]

It would be so funny if you had guests over and they did not close the door all the way and your dog went in. :rofl: They would come out surprised. :shock:

Blackie sighs and sighs when he has nothing to do. Some times you can hear his sighs from across the house. It is quite funny though. :rolleyes:

[Sarah Moore]

Wow and I thought my dogs were the only ones :) Only 2 of my dogs do this, Teddy and Ginger (which, in all fairness, as "my dogs", Lucky is technically my husband's dog, but who's counting anyway, right?). Ginger has only been with us about 4 months, but she is definitely "mommy's girl" she gets very upset if she can hear my and can't see me. And she also tries to jump in my lap at inopportune times. Needless to say, I’m trying to remember to close the door more frequently.

Teddy is quite the talker (Jill, maybe is a black lab thing, not sure, he is my first black labish dog?) He will talk, yawn VERY loudly, it’s really funny. I mimic him and his ears perk up, it’s so cute. Aw dogs, gotta luv um :p

[Cecile Vargo]

Justine, you reminded me of this! We have a very small hallway in the center of the house. The bedroom door has a hole cut in it so the dogs will stay in there, but the cats can come and go as they please. There's been a few times when the weather was bad and we had company and the dogs were in the bedroom, but I forgot to tell the company about the hole cut in the door. Imagine their shock when the company went through the hallway and a big dog head stuck out the door and let out a big bark at them! :rofl:

[Summer Magic]

Ah, yes for the good old days (privacy in the bathroom) I usually have two cats sitting on the counter crying for a fresh drink out of the fawcet and a dog stuffing a ball in my shorts when I'm using the bathroom.

[Hee Yung Lee]

LOL!!!! :rolling: Everyone has very funny stories! I especially love the ball in the shorts!!

Hey Sherri,

I see you are from Minneapolis too! Do you ever got to the Lake of the Isles dog park?

[Rowena Fry]

Justine, it's good that Blackie sighs because I read that when dogs let out one of their mega-sighs, it's because they're REALLY relaxed and comfortable!

Gum Gum talks to us all the time, especially when we're doing something SHE doesn't like! If I tell her no, then I'll usually get an earful - just like a spoiled little child! And one of my old dogs didn't used to greet us by barking, she would 'crow' to us a throaty, but very loud, 'croooooooooooooo' sound. It was so weird!

[Sherri]

Hee Yung, We have not gone there yet. I applied for the Mpls dog park license in the beg. of March and they just got it to us last week, they said they were 6-8 weeks behind.. Anyways, we have been going to the airport dog park and plan on going to the Lake of the Isles very soon.... What do you think of the Lake of the Isles one? I have heard great things..

[Jill Ramsey]

My two follow me around the house, to the bathroom, to the basement, wherever I go, they want to be there, even if my husband is home and on the couch. My husband says they follow me around as if dog biscuits are going to fall out of my butt. I don't know why I find that funny, but I do. :)

I know what you mean, Heather. I have the same shadow!! Your husband is a hoot!!

[Hee Yung Lee]

Sherri,

We have a great time at the Lake of the Isles dog park! Now that it's getting nicer out, it's starting to get much busier. During the summer it's always busy. I prefer though to take him during off peak times, usually somewhere between 7am-8:30am and later in the evening, after 7. I think the busiest times are between 4-7pm and on the weekends it's pretty much busy all day and slows off during the evening. It's fairly large (not sure how many acres), wooded, great drinking area for the dogs, and poop bags are available. I had no idea there is a dog park by the airport. Where exactly is it? You'll have to let me know if you ever go to the Lake of the Isles park, I can try to meet you!

[Krysta Smith]

I thought Lola was just wierd!! She "talks" usually when she's playing with me or someone else, and when she yawns, it's so funny!! When she starts talking though, she's usually standing on her head :rofl: She'll lean up against something and lean over on her shoulder until her back leg is right beside her head so she can chew on it!! The she talks and talks and talks, before she starts tearing around the house. I saw something on tv that someone trained their dog to say "I love you" (I don't know whether or not it's true) and thought that would funny if I could teach LOL to say something. She sighs a lot too. Sometimes I'll be sitting at my computer and she's laying on my bed and I hear this big sigh :littleang She does it sometimes when I'm carrying her too.

[Luciann]

my two sigh alot also, usually when they are curled up with me on the couch or in the bed. They are both small and can move the covers with their sighs.

[Sheryl]

Harley isn't a big 'talker' but is a big 'barker'. Krista, how did you teach him to defer to you to see if things are cool or if they require more barking? My guy barks like a crazy man, growling, all hair up, etc whenever there is someone on our driveway, or a car, or people walking by on the street, etc. He does the same thing if we are in the car, but is okay if he is on leash. I am teaching him 'watch me' so that I can get him to check in, but is this the same as what you've taught yours?

My guy sometimes follows me into the bathroom. He did it a lot when I first got him, but I wish that I had promoted a little more independence because looking back it may have been the start of his separation anxiety. The only time he stole the toilet paper was the first time we went to my sister's house and he grabbed it off her little girl's potty. The little girl was running after him yelling 'my potty! my paper!'.

[Hee Yung Lee]

Do your dogs ever just sit there? I mean-if I'm not engaging Bogart in some way, he usually just lays down on his pillows and sleeps or chews a bone. Sometimes though, he'll get up on the chair or be on the floor and he just sits there as if he's thinking about something. He's not looking out the window and he's not just looking at me, he's just chilling. I know dogs don't think like us, but I just wonder what could be going through his head as he just sits there, if anything.

Maybe he's plotting to overtake the world. hehe.

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[Krysta Smith]

If I'm not playing with Lola and she doesn't feel like doing anything else she'll sit and stare at me for the longest time and if I ignore her she'll go whack her bell so I pay attention to her. Sometimes she'll sit and look around and then sigh. I wish we could read dog's minds every once in a while, it would be interesting to know what goes on inside their heads...

[Justine Archuleta]

Cecile, that would be quite funny to see a dogs head coming out of the door! :rolling: I think I might be a little worried though that they might get their heads stuck in it. :wave: I can just imagine them looking at you like hi. LOL!

[Rowena Fry]

Does anyone else's dog love to steal their underwear? :o It's so weird, she never steals any other item of clothing, but clean, dirty, waiting to be put away, or sneakily when I've opened my drawer (floor level) to get something out, Gum Gum loves to steal underwear! Have to be very careful where we put laundry now in this home! LOL!

[Marsha]

Our previous dog had this underwear fetish. He outgrew chewing on any of our belongings, but he never got over the underwear thing. Not only would he drag them out with company over, but, if it was spend-the-night company, they would have to guard their luggage, or he would get theirs too!

[Sherri]

Where exactly is it? You'll have to let me know if you ever go to the Lake of the Isles park, I can try to meet you!

The Airport Park is right off of 62 and 28th.. So if you are going East on 62, go right past the Cedar Ave exit.. The next Exit is 28th street.. If you take a right at the stop sign at the bottom of the exit you will see the dog park.. It is on MAC land. It is a big park, fenced in at most borders. We keep Baxter away from the open area and we don't have issues. There are a lot of dogs there. The park has a couple of wooded sections, a lot of open sections, and a lake/swampy area. The open areas are nice, a lot of people I have spoken with like to go to this park because of the open areas they can throw balls to their dogs. The park is in the city of Richfield and does not require a permit.

I will definatley let you know when I am heading to the Lake of the Isles Park..I think it would be fun to meet you there..
Sherri

[Sherri]

My mom's dog loves to steal underwear (at least when she was younger, she is now 14).. She would not only carry the underwear, but she would usually find a way to eat some of it.. the most embarassing was when I was in high school, would bring a date over or something and she would have my underwear all over the house..
It didn't matter to her if the underwear was clean, dirty, new.. she loved them all. Now that she is older, our underwear has been safe, but it was quite a crap shoot before!!

[Jody Hayes]

I too have a dog w/ an underwear fetish...and only mine. I think I need to join a support group for it! I find it very disturbing. I hate shopping for underwear! Ace will actually chew them up...that's a beagle for you.

[Hee Yung Lee]

I think that is very funny! I am picturing your dogs running around the house with undies hanging from their mouths. :lol: I leave laundry out all the time, but Bogart never tries to go for it. It's a good thing because I can see how that would be very embarrassing!

[Jill Ramsey]

Finnegan will grab any small cloth. Socks, Washcloths, underwear. Then he tries to stuff the whole thing in his mouth so we don't take it away.

[Chris Smith]

Nalu must have some lab in him because he does so many of the same things that Finnegan does!! (prancing, chewing, grabbing any small cloth). When Nalu shoves it all in his mouth, he acts like he doesn't have the object anymore since "it is hidden in his mouth". I think he actually thinks that I think he dropped it even though his mouth and cheeks look so stuffed with something!! It is too funny!!

[Luciann]

those of you who have two, does one dog try to walk the other? Tike will take the leash in her mouth like she is going to walk Frodo. both when i use to leashes or when i have the dual attachment on one leash?

[Sheryl]

The small dog that my husband has now used to like to chew up my underwear. My husband thought that she was a lesbian. She onetime chewed all the clothes off Raggedy Ann but not Raggedy Andy. Go figure, eh?

[Eva Horn]

hehe... Dusty does the same thing...but mainly with socks and underwear..
They are usually safe if were not around...
He doesn't chew them(infact he has never destroyed anything) But carries them around until he finds one of us, then waits to be spotted, then he takes off running hoping we will follow!!

it's so funny because if we don't he will sit down, put the underwear down and look at us like were stupid! Like come on don't you want this back????


He's soooooooo cute!

[Hee Yung Lee]

those of you who have two, does one dog try to walk the other? Tike will take the leash in her mouth like she is going to walk Frodo. both when i use to leashes or when i have the dual attachment on one leash?

I don't have two dogs, so Bogart has never done this, but this reminded me something I saw at the dog park the other day. There was a Rottweiler chasing a lab and the rottweiller kept biting the labs tail. It was the funniest thing!

[Luciann]

When frodo was very little, we use to house sit for a friend who had a rott and somewhere i think i have a picture of frodo with the handle to the rott's leash in his mouth like, "okay now we are going for a walk" it was so funny

but tika does it every day almost

[Rowena Fry]

This isn't about my pup, but her new friend, a 6 month old French Bulldog. Whenever any of the dogs is playing with him and go to 'attack' his neck or head, he'll spin round super fast and block them with his bum! It's the cutest thing! He's got the tactic down to perfection, so no one ever gets close, cos he'll just 'bum block' them. No matter how many times he does it, it ALWAYS makes me laugh!

Oh yeah...this probably isn't a very good thing to do, well it's not kind cos it's teasing her, but sometimes I'll pick up one of Gum Gum's chew toys and pretend to chew on it. The look on her face when she realises what I'm doing is priceless! You can see the thought processes as they occur to her!

- Hey, she's eating something!
- Wonder what it is
- Smells like...
- Looks like....
- HEY! That's MINE!!!!!

Then she'll come bounding over and positively lick me to death until I give it back to her! I can't help doing it though cos she's just so cute! I hope she doesn't mind, probably not, she never tires of it, even if I do it five times in a row and she never gets aggressive about it.

Gum Gum also does the hiding things in her mouth thing. As if we can't see by the cheeky look on her face and her prancing around that she has something there!

[Sherri]

After I made my last post about my mom's dogs carrying underwear, but said mine does not do that... Well, I went home from work that night and my underwear were in the middle of the living room.. now, I know I did not take them off in there? Then later I saw Baxter carrying them (after I put them away again)...Last night, there was another pair of my underwear on the stairs..Either I need to find a new laundry basket with a lid, or I need to stop undressing in such weird places in the house!!

Too funny... I thought I was done with the underwear all over the house, but it looks like it is just starting all over again..

[Mickelle Weber]

Cleo will go crazy if i don't let her in the shower!!(while i am showering) she just walks around like the water is bugging her...i have no idea why she likes doing this, but she throws a fit until i let her in!
dogs really are hilarious!

[Hee Yung Lee]

Bogart doesn't like getting bathed, so he is more than happy to stay out of the shower when I am in there. However, when he was younger, he would lay right outside the shower while I was in there and when I was finished, I would push the shower curtain aside, and there he was. :)

[Lauren Frisbie]

Whiskey does the same thing! I don't ever bathe him in the tub, I have always done it in the kitchen sink, but every day when I take a shower, he whines until I let him in. He doesn't even get that wet in there, just sort of stays towards the other end. I just think he doesn't like his mommy to disappear behind the curtain. lol, he's so cute! He also does the sit there while I use the bathroom, but not after I've given him one little square of toilet paper. He loves toilet paper. I know it's probably not the best thing to let him chew on, but I pick and choose my battles and it doesn't hurt him, and he enjoys it so much! It is funny though, when he's done ripping the paper to shreds, he just sits there staring up at me, so funny!