My 2 year old goldendoodle just yeeted herself off the porch for no reason and fucked up her leg. Of course the vet is booked until 11 AM tomorrow. This is the same dog that had to get bowel obstruction surgery twice in two months because she kept eating toys. She is not allowed to have toys anymore.
She’s such a goblin.
My dog is pretty smart, but sometimes he’s smart in pretty stupid ways.
One thing he does is, if he needs help he will sit in front of the thing he needs help with. That’s it, just sit there. Now, he’s a black dog and he will sometimes do this in completely dark corners of the apartment. Maybe he played with his food ball and a treat has fallen under some furniture, he will just sit in front of it in the dark and expect us to help him, just sitting there for 20 minutes sometimes. Usually we only notice once he lets out a sad grumble after having sat there for a long time but I’m sure there’s other times where he just gave up and we didn’t notice at all. And this is not something we taught him, he just figured sitting quietly in a corner is the best way to get attention.
That and he likes to check if there’s anything going on behind him while on walks, which often causes him to walk head-first into obstacles…
My son’s dog has the same problem… He figured out how to escape the back yard, but couldn’t figure out how to get back into the back yard.
So he goes to the neighbors house, rings their doorbell, and gets them to let him back in his house.
My dog sort of does this when she has the runs. She needs to go out. She just sits and gives us that look. Not sure what it is, but by now we recognize it. if we see it! She does the same if we are asleep! We are just lucky to wake up in time.
oh for going out ours will sit in front of the entry door and look in our direction, even if we’re two rooms away. we really need to pay attention to notice if he suddenly disappears and then check the entry.
It’s really interesting how you start to be able to distinguish the different kinds of look they give you, like I couldn’t say how but I know if he needs help, needs to go out or if he wants to play depending on how he sits and looks.