LOL
Posted on 12/22/2012 6:45:01 PM PST by navysealdad
Get out of the bed I need to get to sleep. Lincoln the English Mastiff is a big cry baby
(Excerpt) Read more at uvideo100.com ...
Our ACD/border collie mix won’t get on a bed or sofa. I’ve tried to get him up and he won’t. Sort of like Lord Peter Whimsey says of Bunter, he believes in keeping me in my place. Only discipline issue is when he has his leash on to go out he gets excited and bites at it. I wait quietly until he settles down and he does now without me even having to tell him. We have to stop and settle down three distinct places before he’s allowed to get off the porch and we walk. Then we have a great time. He’s getting old - 15. He used to chase and catch Frisbees and other toys for literally hours but now once or twice is all he can do. Mostly he sleeps. One or two miles is all he’s up for.
So I watched it all.
Soon as she “get down” Odin jumped up and started to hop off the sofa and looked at me with such a confused look on his face.
[Ma? Was that you? Get down? Whuh?]
I cannot believe she was right in the dog’s face, looking him in the eye while he’s pulling rank on her.
“I know you’re not gonna bite me.”
Famous last words.
All dogs bite.
If my dogs acted like that...hell, if *I* acted like that, I’d die of shame, not to mention *never* slapping it on the internet so everybody could see what a spectacular idiot I was.
LOL
He's just a big sweetie.
reminds me of Boehner and Obama
Bad idea.
The alpha of a pack sleeps where ever the alpha desires.
If you let a dog sleep on your bed, you are training it to believe itself the leader.
It doesn’t want to leave the bed because if it *loses* the struggle, it *loses* its position as alpha.
Well said.
(And good boy, Odhinn! What a smart boy!)
Every day is a blessing. You can only try to love them back as much as they love you.
I’d say both dog and owner need more training.
Agreed. That’s an excellent book. Hopefully some Freepers who are new to dog owning will pick it up.
I think the dog thought the whole thing was a game; The dog repeats the classic play-bow posture, while wagging it's tail. Even the woman is laughing, so I think she knows this is a game, too.
I wouldn't be all that surprised if she had invited that dog up onto the bed five minutes before she went and got the video camera.
That said, of all the things to teach a dog, disobedience shouldn't be one of them.
“Please, please, no more. I’ll tell all the Freepers I know to donate as soon as you let me use your computer again. (I hope you haven’t yet found out that I shed on your computer the last time I used it, yet....) “ —Odhinn
I think we just discovered the real reason why Freep-a-thons have “bursts” of increased donations-—more Freepers become aware of Odhinn’s plight and donate to save him.
When I tell my dog “good night” she will go to her bed. She is never allowed on my bed.
Big dog who doesn’t obey is a bad combination. The dog won that confrontation and is the boss of the house.
LOL...I was just about to FReepmail you and ask where you were.
[get *out* of my head]
;D
To each his or her own. I’ve had dogs all my life, as many as three at a time. Large and small, alpha to very timid. Every one of them has been welcome to sleep in the bed with me. It’s invariably their favorite part of the day, they love it. “Let’s go to sleep” is all they’ve ever needed to hear and off they’ve went, happily. I’ve had a few who wouldn’t and they were the meekest. Even they enjoyed bedtime though, and slept right beside the bed.
Never had a problem with any of them thinking they ruled the house. They all knew I did. I don’t think it’s at all necessary to deprive them of the physical closeness of sleeping side by side just to prove it. They do love it so, all of them I’ve ever had.
Very cute...
Ummm...not the mastiff. That’s alarming.
Growls are never acceptable.
Today the dog thinks it’s ‘fun’.
Tomorrow you get your face ripped off by the monster you foolishly created.
He may have been ‘play bowing’ but to me it looked like a dominant but -very- conflicted dog.
It doesn’t want to bite her..yet also is flaunting its disobedience.
It’s a young dog and is confused by its place in the hierarchy.
Growl/play/bite?
Bad scene.
Bad habit to ingrain.
She’s laughing because she doesn’t have a clue what’s happening.
A “wagging tail” means *nothing* if you aren’t reading the dog’s body language as a whole.
When Odin is wanting to rip apart somebody who messing with him while he’s the truck, his nub is going a thousand miles an hour and I guarantee you that although he may be “happy”, he is *not* playing a game.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.