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It's a sneak lick the dogs get in when you aren't expecting it. That's when they miss your cheek and stick their tongues in your mouth. Then the cry of "EWWWW! I'VE BEEN FRENCH KISSED BY A DOG! EWWWW!" rings through the air and the person involved grabs any water, beer, toothpaste, or mouthwash to wash their mouth out.
It's one of those things most dog owners have unfortunately experienced.
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Originally Posted by ChessieMom
A child can give itself a bath. At least, after a certain age. They can also go to the bathroom by themselves. A child is very different from a dog, in all respects.
Yes, well, let's remember that dogs don't age mentally like a child and they don't give themselves baths.
I have to say, though, that training a dog sure comes in handy for training a child. I still remember my training telling us that dogs learn how to count. So if you say "Get off that chair" five times before you make the dog move, the dog is gonna go, that's one, that's two....that's five, I better get off the chair now. So in training a dog, it's just as easy to make them do it the first time as the fifth time.
Don't you wish parents would apply that to kids too? LOL
I worked for someone who got a new dog. They said "please do not feed him people food, I don't want him to start bad habits". That was easy for me because I don't feed pets people food, and certainly not someone elses pets.
They invite me over to supper one night. The dog spent the night with his nose on the table. Then the same someone who said "don't feed him people food" slipped him some supper.
That is known as hypocrisy . Occasionally I'll eat some sort of "people food" that's suitable for a dog (bit of meat, rice, pasta, cheese, egg, crunchy veggie, sauce or gravy, etc.) but I certainly don't feed them at the table or off my own plate! I put whatever it is in the dog's bowl, ask the dog to sit/shake or whatever little token command they've learned that earns them some goodie they want, and set the bowl where the dog would normally eat. Solves several problems: allows me to indulge the desire to do something fun for my dog, doesn't teach them bad manners, they don't lose their dignity by begging, and keeps a human dinner table meal more pleasant.
The dog-bed thread reminded me of a college roommate's family dog: a springer named Flip. The sort of fanatic that required everyone to spell out F-r-i-s-b-e-e unless you wanted to watch him lose his mind.
I spent Thanksgiving vacation at her family home and was introduced to Flip and a small standard poodle with the incredible moniker Poufelia Potts (aka: Poufie). Poufie was no fashion plate. She got clipped in the bathtub and the style was whatever she would tolerate before losing her temper. She was a serious hunting dog, supposedly just like Flip. Flip was rather a wuss about things. His love of the field was conditional. Rain, sleet or snow, Poufie loved it all and would probably beard a bear into its den.
One snowy slushy morning in the wee small hours Dad and dogs went hunting for something. Everyone else was still in bed when they returned home, half frozen and dripping. The guest room was the first room you came to after leaving the garage. Flip shoved his way through the door and gave my face a lick. Sleepily unaware of his sopping state, I invited him on the bed for a pre-breakfast snuggle session. He took me up on the offer immediately, but his version of "bed" meant under the covers, not on them! Next thing I knew a heat-seeking, wet, muddy, hairy icicle had draped itself over my bare toes and legs! Boy did I yell! I peeked under the covers to see a wriggling happy Flip face beaming at me. The very definition of a rude awakening!
Other friends in ND I was visiting in February "gave" me their Vizsla Ben for the night. Their attic guest room wasn't heated. They used him themselves as an ambulatory self-heating blanket all the time. Actually, I suspect it was the other way around. Short-coated, zero-body-fat Ben liked sleeping with humans because they kept HIM warm!
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No because they wouldn't do well in a fall AND because they'd think they were my equal.
True about my dog thinking she's my equal... I wouldn't want that to happen. She spent two years in a shelter - which means two years in a small cell, alone (I don't know how i'd make it thru that)...After her owner had passed and she was given to his son who had mean dogs that continuously attacked her. (She has many scars to show it.) He wouldn't give her up and she ran away all the time. She was 10 years old by the time we adopted her. She's much stronger than I am. And much sweeter and more forgiving, I think.
And to a couple other posters: my dog bathes herself every day! She does a great job
As to our furniture, we rarely have company. But the couch is covered with a large blanket that we easily remove if someone wants to sit down and is worried about dog hair. And i love the smell of a warm dog (a wet one notsomuch). And love those Frito paws!!
Dogs shouldn’t sleep on peoples beds no matter how cute they are. They are animals. Plus, you give up authority when you let them sleep in your bed. They need to know who the leader of the pack is. Once you let them in your bed, they probably aren’t going to listen to you much.
So, if I had a dog, nope. Not to mention the hair and slobber. No thanks.
Yes, I Always share bed with my dogs they are my child. also gain some quick bucks and learning on some Slotland Casino Gamerules would sufice the cost of it.
We aren’t supposed to let our child sleep in our beds either. I was warned by many not to let ,y new babies ever to be allowed in our bedroom for anything ever, let alone sleep.
It's a sneak lick the dogs get in when you aren't expecting it. That's when they miss your cheek and stick their tongues in your mouth. Then the cry of "EWWWW! I'VE BEEN FRENCH KISSED BY A DOG! EWWWW!" rings through the air and the person involved grabs any water, beer, toothpaste, or mouthwash to wash their mouth out.
It's one of those things most dog owners have unfortunately experienced.
Oh, yes. We had a Pomeranian who was very adept at that. Spouse till jokes about the time the little bugger did that to me as we walked past a craft beer place with a outdoor patio. I bent over to fix his harness, he got me with his tongue & I yelled GIMMEE A BEEEEER!
Dogs shouldn’t sleep on peoples beds no matter how cute they are. They are animals. Plus, you give up authority when you let them sleep in your bed. They need to know who the leader of the pack is. Once you let them in your bed, they probably aren’t going to listen to you much.
Not necessarily true. This is just a bunch of nonsense that Cesar Milan has proffered to people who don’t know anything about dogs. There might be a small percentage of dogs for whom this training method works but, generally speaking, being nice to your dog and giving them a loving home, medical care, food and water every day and praise when they do something right is the most effective training.
My dog listens to me, and he sleeps on the bed. If for some reason he doesn’t listen to me, it has more to do with his high prey drive rather than his sleeping on the bed every night.
I am the same. I will not eat dinner at a table if I have to be pushing a dog away from me. My BF’s mom had Thanksgiving dinner at her very tiny house and there were THREE dogs in there. I put my foot down and put all three dogs outside until dinner was over. It was ridiculous.
My take- many dog lovers don’t care about cleanliness. They seem oblivious to the hair n dander in every crevice of their home. That’s ok by me- but I draw lines with infants and new borns. Keep your pets away from their faces n out of their rooms. Not forever - just until their lungs are strong enough. And the fight continues with animals at the grocery stores.
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. Occasionally I'll eat some sort of "people food" that's suitable for a dog (bit of meat, rice, pasta, cheese, egg, crunchy veggie, sauce or gravy, etc.) but I certainly don't feed them at the table or off my own plate! I put whatever it is in the dog's bowl, ask the dog to sit/shake or whatever little token command they've learned that earns them some goodie they want, and set the bowl where the dog would normally eat. Solves several problems: allows me to indulge the desire to do something fun for my dog, doesn't teach them bad manners, they don't lose their dignity by begging, and keeps a human dinner table meal more pleasant.
