RouxDog Habits That People Don't Like
September 20th 2009 01:37
My Wisdom Face
Dogs have many habits that are necessary to their daily lives. They must practice these rituals it is essential because it has been decreed by the Great Doggess, she who decided which dog will be with a person alone and which will be with a person who has more than one dog, or even other animals. The great Doggess also decides where a dog lives, in what conditions he or she will live, and she does not choose that dogs live with mean or cruel people, those are the ones, not the dogs, but the people, who deceive her by being nice to other people and even children and pretend to like the pets of other people. Unfortunately the Great Doggess is easy to fool that way because being the Great Doggess, she has all the dog habits, just bigger and better. So she tends to trust people. But I promise you eventually the mean and cruel will have to face her, and she won't be kind and gentle.
But that isn't what I plan on writing about today. Today, I'm going to write about the habits that dogs have that people don't really understand and in some cases don't like. So I'll try to explain.
1. Sniffing butts. This is important to a dog to identify the dog they are meeting, it helps us to understand a new dog and whether or not he or she is trustworthy. Also, sometimes the smells tell the boys is the girls might want to be romantic, but not always. Girls are very picky regardless of what people think, if we don't want a boy dog sniffing or they sniff too much we just sit down. That makes the boy dogs really weird, they don't understand, but you see boy dogs aren't as smart as girl dogs.
2. Eating poop, puppies, other dogs', their own. Why do we do this? It's a throw back to when we didn't have people homes. We'd do this to hide where we were, it would hide the den and the puppies. Now we do it out of habit. Of course, we do it for the puppies to clean them up, and also to help them poop when they are too small to do it themselves without our help. A quick aside on this habit, people get really upset with us when we eat cat poop from the box where they go potty. Well if you'd let us eat the food you feed them we wouldn't eat the poop. We like cat food in any shape and form we can get it. You may not understand this but that's the way it is.
3. Eating, why do some of us eat fast and some eat slow, some just nibble and others gobble all at once. Well, those of us who eat really fast, it's usually an insecurity, someone else may eat it first, this usually comes from when we were puppies and had to climb over our litter mates to get to mom's food thingy. Sometimes it would be very hard, especially if you were the smallest. While we all get fed, some of the bigger ones would eat a lot more. So they eat really fast now, the used to be small ones.
Those who just nibble, they are just fooling around, they will wait and sneak more food later if it is left down, or if there are other dogs in the house, they will go to their food and try to eat some of it, but they will never let any other dog eat from their dishes.
There are the ones who gobble all their food at once, not just fast but the ones who when the food is put down by the people, inhale it and then cough it up and eat it again. That's caused by insecurity too, but usually because they live with a nibbler who tries to steal their food.
4. Digging holes in the garden. For some reason people seem to think that when we dig in their flower beds we are just playing, but you see we probably hear something down in there, plus the people were digging in there so their must be something good down there, maybe something to eat, something to play with, maybe a bone. You get the idea We dig, it's one of the things we do.
5. Chasing cats. Now not all of us do this, just some. Greyhounds are quite prone to chase not just cats but almost anything with white butts. It's the training they get from racing. But it's also because they are what people call sight hounds, their noses aren't as good as us poodles. Don't misunderstand we poodles will chase things too but not because they have white butts, but because we are hunters, it's what we were bred to do, hunt things, of course we were really bred to return what we chased.
6. Eating grass to throw up. We don't eat grass to throw up, we eat it because we like the taste, or what might be on it, we throw up because grass doesn't really agree with our stomachs.
7. Playing and then fighting. Sometimes when we play we'll forget that we shouldn't play too rough, and we'll bite or something. Well, when we do that it can turn into a full blown fight, we don't intend to start something, it just happens. Of course, this is because none of us likes being bitten, and we really don't like having our butts bitten, so we have to retaliate. If there are more than just the two of us, then the others take sides and we revert to the pack mentality and the fight's on. The best way to stop this, is water, hose us off and we'll stop, because most of us don't like water in the face.
8. Why do some of us sleep on our backs and then pass gas? Well if we have excess gas it's gotta go somewhere so we let it out, other wise our tummies would bloat and that can be a bad thing. We don't understand why you people are always embarrassed by gas. Now I understand that a greyhound can clear a large room with their gas and having been exposed to it I know that's true. But my mom discovered a solution to that, she always added extra protein to the high protein food she feeds us, not much but enough to make the gas go away. It seems to work, but it takes the fun out of being able to gross out the people especially when mom has company who doesn't understand dogs or other pets.
9. Stealing peoples stuff, like shoes, food, pillows, whatever. We steal peoples stuff because it tastes good, it's comfy and most importantly it smells and tastes like our people. We like the comfort of having our peoples stuff, and we love their food, so sometimes we steal it. Mom won't let me play with her shoes even her old ones, but she does tie old socks in a knot so I can play with that, but I'd rather steal her pillows, and when she gets up during the night I always try to steal her spot in bed, it's really warm and sometimes, when I don't take her whole side, she let's me stay and pulls the blankies over both of us, I like that a lot.
10. Dogs, sniff each other, even lick each other, they will run and play with each other and our people are afraid that we'll get in trouble. Well this is simple dogs like friends of their own kind. I have four greyhound friends, they live in a country named Australia, which mom says is far away, very far away. I want to meet them but mom says we can't afford to go there, I don't know what that means but I guess we can't go visit them. That saddens me because they are greyhounds, which are my favorite dogs, even though I'm a poodle dog, I'm also an honorary greyhound because I've lived with two and been best friends with them and I know how they play. My friends are Heidi, Clyde, and their newest foster (whatever that means) Paul, and then there are Daisy and Scratchy, they live with a Mr. Champion, who writes about greyhounds, sometimes but lately he's been weird.
I know there are a lot of other things you people don't know or understand about us dogs, but I think this might be long enough for now, my paws aren't used to this typing thing, and mom won't help. She said this was my idea so I'd just have to deal with it. Personally I think that's being a little stuffy, or maybe even snobby. Except my mom is neither stuffy or snobby, so I think she's just trying to teach me something but darned if I know what. She always typed for me when I had to answer any of my friends to comment on one of Mr. Champions posts. But somehow this must be different. If any of you figure it out please let me know, I'm very curious and she won't tell me. She just says, “You have to figure it out yourself, you wanted to write a blog, you write the blog. That's what I have to do.” So I figure there's a lesson there but I just can't figure it out.
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