Does your dog tease you?

[M.F.]

Snowie has a great sense of humour. And he loves to tease us! I’m wondering if anyone else experiences similar?

He gets a peeled raw carrot every night after dinner. He comes inside after eating dinner and one of us will give him the carrot. On many occasions, we’ll hold it out for him and he’ll pretend to take it and then whisk his head to one side. Again, pretend to take it, and then turns away quickly. He’s inviting play. So, I wave the carrot around like a wand, and he pretends to grab it but doesn’t. Then I back away and he makes to grab it, but doesn’t. Wagging his tail all the time. When he eventually takes the carrot, he’ll fling it around the kitchen, sometimes bouncing around while flinging it. Eventually he’ll settle down on his bed to eat it. He initiates the play, makes the first teasing move. It’s very funny. We all enjoy it.

He also teases us with his bone. He knows no bones allowed inside. But sometimes they’re too big to eat up in one go. Sometimes he goes outside and saunters inside with his bone. We say “take it outside!!” and he’ll continue to parade around with it, making to go upstairs and waiting to have his path blocked. Then darting to the lounge and jumping on the sofa. Us shouting “outside!”, of course laughing cos he’s teasing us. And him making to go this way, then that way, evading us and almost hoolying around. Eventually he’ll take his bone outside and settle down with it.

I was always taught never to tease a dog. But this funny dog just loves to tease us! Anyone else’s dog do this?

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Sounds like Snowie tells a good dog joke. I love a dog who can tell a good dog joke!

I can't say I've ever had a dog actually tease me. Carbon's current dog joke, however, is running up to me before I can pip the whistle to practice recall. He hoolies away about 20 feet, then stops, turns around, looks me in the eye, and then runs full tilt back at me before I ever have time to recall him. He thinks this game is HILARIOUS. Today I started hiding behind trees while he's running away from me, just so I can pip the whistle.

 

[Rosie]

Pongo pretends to be asleep.
Last thing at night, I like to take him round the garden for a final wee break. He usually doesn't think this is either necessary or sensible, so his game is to avoid going.

When the telly is switched off and Paul heads upstairs, that's the cue. At this point Pongers usually opens an eye or two. When I walk over to him to have my nightly "come on, let's go round the garden" conversation, he screws his eyes shut and plants his head firmly on the floor. If I try to lift his head, it is more than a dead-weight - he is pressing it down into the carpet. Then he snores....loudly. He is wide awake by now, but he snores.

Nowadays I usually give up at this point (on the basis that he obviously doesn't want a wee!) but I used to persist. I could heave him up by his shoulders and drag / slide him across the carpet, across the tiles, over to the French windows and through them. He would still have eyes tightly shut, still pretending to snore.....until I got as far as hauling his head and shoulders actually out the door and down the step, at which point he'd get up with a snort.

There is no doubt in my mind this was his "wind up mum" game at the end of the day.

 

[HAH]

When he eventually takes the carrot, he’ll fling it around the kitchen, sometimes bouncing around while flinging it. Eventually he’ll settle down on his bed to eat it.

Kipper does similar with a carrot, or anything high value like a dentastick I think it’s definitely a sense of humour, he’s very funny any seems to love it more when we laugh.

 

[chrisc831]

Pongo pretends to be asleep.
Last thing at night, I like to take him round the garden for a final wee break. He usually doesn't think this is either necessary or sensible, so his game is to avoid going.

When the telly is switched off and Paul heads upstairs, that's the cue. At this point Pongers usually opens an eye or two. When I walk over to him to have my nightly "come on, let's go round the garden" conversation, he screws his eyes shut and plants his head firmly on the floor. If I try to lift his head, it is more than a dead-weight - he is pressing it down into the carpet. Then he snores....loudly. He is wide awake by now, but he snores.

Nowadays I usually give up at this point (on the basis that he obviously doesn't want a wee!) but I used to persist. I could heave him up by his shoulders and drag / slide him across the carpet, across the tiles, over to the French windows and through them. He would still have eyes tightly shut, still pretending to snore.....until I got as far as hauling his head and shoulders actually out the door and down the step, at which point he'd get up with a snort.

There is no doubt in my mind this was his "wind up mum" game at the end of the day.

I’ve been told. to shush cos I’m laughing soo loudly, that I might wake Fergus up! But honestly so funny,

 

[Naya]

Harley teases me a lot. Usually with socks or slippers......she comes towards me and as soon as I go to take it she moves her head. She does this a few times then runs off, throws it around a few times then lies on it so I can’t get it.
At bedtime she lies on my side of the bed whilst I’m doing my teeth etc. When I get to the bed she squeezes her eyes tight as if to pretend she is asleep. If I wait a minute, she will open one eye to see what I’m doing . Sometimes she will huff and move to the end of the bed, other times she just lies there and I have to squeeze onto the edge of the bed

 

[Xena Dog Princess]

Pongo and Snowie are hysterical - what a sense of humour!

Whenever we're erecting a gazebo on the deck Xena walks onto the fabric and lays down. I can just hear her saying "I HALP". We laugh and try to shoo her off and she just glues herself onto it somehow. I said to OH this morning as were erecting it that we need to record her next time.

 

[M.F.]

Pongo pretends to be asleep.
Last thing at night, I like to take him round the garden for a final wee break. He usually doesn't think this is either necessary or sensible, so his game is to avoid going.

When the telly is switched off and Paul heads upstairs, that's the cue. At this point Pongers usually opens an eye or two. When I walk over to him to have my nightly "come on, let's go round the garden" conversation, he screws his eyes shut and plants his head firmly on the floor. If I try to lift his head, it is more than a dead-weight - he is pressing it down into the carpet. Then he snores....loudly. He is wide awake by now, but he snores.

Nowadays I usually give up at this point (on the basis that he obviously doesn't want a wee!) but I used to persist. I could heave him up by his shoulders and drag / slide him across the carpet, across the tiles, over to the French windows and through them. He would still have eyes tightly shut, still pretending to snore.....until I got as far as hauling his head and shoulders actually out the door and down the step, at which point he'd get up with a snort.

There is no doubt in my mind this was his "wind up mum" game at the end of the day.

Too funny!!!!

I swear our boys are related. Or passing on tips. Because Snowie also refuses to go out to make a wee before bed. As a puppy I also dragged him on his back to the door. When he got older, I developed a technique to roll him onto his feet before he could realize he wasn’t on his back anymore, and then frogmarched him outside. Eventually I came round to the power of butter (it does make life easier!). He’ll do most anything for butter. But now he won’t go wee before bed unless it includes butter!! The other night he was lying outside on the patio, literally three steps away from the wee patch. But at 9pm—his wee time—he came inside and stared at my husband to get the butter cos he wished to make his wee!!

 

[Selina27]

I said to OH this morning as were erecting it that we need to record her next time.

Please do! That sounds so funny!

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

The Pongo and Snowie wee stories are great. I really can't figure out how @Rosie is able to drag 'sleeping' Pongo to the door. You must be all muscle. And for Snowie must be a big fan of that old advert (maybe only in the US?): "Everything's better with butter". Including a wee.

 

[Atemas]

Red is not teasing but I have obviously ‘programmed’ her to go outside for a wee. At bedtime, I say ‘Red let’s go wee’. She’ll follow me out the door but if she doesn't want to wee, she just stands rock still outside the door whilst I walk to the lawn. I look back and see she hasn’t moved and get the message. I hear myself saying to her ‘ok, no wee’. I suppose she just hasn’t found a better way of ‘telling’ me when she doesn’t want to go.

 

[Jen]

If Stanley doesn’t want to do something he just does a really comical flop. Then lays on his back with his legs straight out infront of him playing dead

You can practically hear the giggling because he knows he’s impossible to move when he does that