[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: The thinking, plotting and acting out dog!

  • From: grnram415@xxxxxxx
  • To: uwish@xxxxxxxxxx, Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:58:38 -0400

I have no doubt your girl is plotting.? I have an entire litter here who has 
decided they no longer want to be in their whelping room.(spare bedroom)? They 
are 5 weeks and 3 days old.? These pups, who would follow me everywhere, are 
now scattering when it is time to come inside.? The routine was: outside in the 
morning for a couple hours then inside during the day.? Outside in the evening 
then back inside for bedtime.? Nope, they do NOT want to come in.? They want to 
be where the people and dogs are.? They are very social.? And very VOCAL about 
their demands, LOL!? They went out in the?backyard for the first time today.? I 
have a pen set up with shade and water.? It is where all the dogs hang out 
during the day in their runs.? I thought they would be scared to move from 
their private front yard to all the noise in the backyard.? Boy, was I wrong.? 
They couldn't wait :-)? They are still on?Astroturf and not allowed to be on 
the grass or dirt except to go potty and come inside.
 ? I doubt that is going to last much longer <VBG>??
That all said, I would worry about your girls.? I had 2 girls who loved each 
other.? But, they both wanted to be my right hand dog.? If I corrected one, the 
other would get involved?and correct her too.? This went on for awhile until 
one decided not to accept the correction from the other girl.? We never had a 
major fight as I seperated them from that point on.? Both girls are now the 
matriarchs of their packs.? Both girls?were/are excellent mothers.? Both girls 
still love their female daughters and play with them with no issues, EVER.? 
But, I would never put them together again.? They started out with the older 
girl being more Alpha but the younger one stepped up to the plate and they can 
never be together again.? They still love each other and can be one on one as 
long as it is just the two?of them under supervised play and no chance that one 
or the other will have to be corrected.??Corrections were mostly fence fighting 
which has been resolved by privacy fences and age.? I
 t is very rare when they get to see each other anymore.? Anyway, just my two 
cents worth.? Keep an eye on those girls, especially that sneaky one.? She may 
push the issue one too many times.??

Laura?????????? 


-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Galasso <uwish@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:34 am
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] The thinking, plotting and acting out dog!



Many people believe that most dogs act out of instinct.  I believe in 
many cases that that is true.  However, I also believe that some of the 
smarter ones act out of shear intelligence and some like the one that I 
own actually thinks and plots out what she's going to do before she does 
it.  Yup, I'm talking about the baddest dog I've ever owned (and also 
the very funniest)......Bu!   Bu lives to play and also lives to 
intimidate her sister.  Everyday she "herds" her sister into the dog 
house by biting her hocks and legs.  This is the first thing she does in 
the morning and several times again during the day.  I have a dog house 
up on the deck, which she moves around at her will.  Yesterday it was in 
front of the back door.  Well anyway, about a week ago, I happened to 
take a look out the back window.  I see Bu go into the dog house while 
her sister Jess is laying on the deck catching the breeze of the 
afternoon minding her own business.  Out of the dog house parades Ms. 
(pain in the A--) Bu with a mouthful of shavings that I put into the dog 
house.  She walks over to her sister and standing over her, dumps the 
shavings on her head.   Jess turns around looking at me with a big piece 
of shaving hanging off of her eye lash.  I thought I would laugh until I 
cried.  I have seen her do this with a bone she may be chewing on.  
She'll walk over to her mother and drop it on her back.  Certainly this 
isn't done out of instinct, but rather by her thinking and plotting to 
do it.  She is just so bad! 

Every night before my dogs go to bed, they share a treat with me.  Jess 
loves to jump up in the air and catch it.  She's a real chow hound.  
Then she turns around and lets out a big scream looking for more.  Each 
time she does this, she gets louder, and each time Bu looks at her like 
she's nuts.  Then when Bu can no longer take her sister's mouth, she 
jumps her and attacks her to make her shut up!  I tell you I never have 
laughed as much as I have with this dog.  Oh yeah, she even barks at me 
when I yell at her to leave her sister alone.  She runs into the dog 
house and peeking out (but not too far), she barks at me as if to tell 
me I have some nerve correcting her!   Anybody want her?  hehehe!  Barbara

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