The Education of Ben

Southern by choice · Sep 11, 2016

You are so right!
That dog sounds like he is anxiety ridden as well.
Or feeding off her "vibe" for lack of a better term.

Yeah, I might say my dogs are my babies BUT I don't MEAN that they are. They are dogs through and through!
I think it is horrible to deny the dog the ability to be a dog. They aren't humans, aren't children... grrrrr I know- I won't use your thread to rant.

I will confess, in my aging I am not as intense as I once was and let things roll a little more.

Yeah, this dog cannot stay!!!!!!!! I do love her BUT NO! Of course from just correcting her she has now decided I am hers and gets jealous (with the other dogs).

So NOW I have to work on that. She has been great for my GSD though. She can actually wear the GSD out. :lol:

Beekissed said:
you've seen that look...like the sun rises and sets in you and they want only to worship at your feet.

You nailed it!
"Blue" of course (why I love him so much) never lets on. I just love his arrogance... but boy is he loyal.

Beekissed · Sep 11, 2016

Southern by choice said:
I think it is horrible to deny the dog the ability to be a dog. They aren't humans, aren't children... grrrrr I know- I won't use your thread to rant.

Rant on...I feel the exact same way. Pure selfishness that treats dogs like humans...they have been uniquely designed by God to be a dog, with all the natural dog instincts and traits. To treat them like a human just cheapens that and disparages it.

I've seen it all my life...the most contented dogs seem to be those who are simply dogs, sitting at the feet of the humans(not on top of them, on their beds, on their furniture, etc.) and waiting to do things to please them, or just trotting around with other dogs, doing what dogs like to do.

And, I agree....her dogs are all nervous wrecks, especially the one that paces around her. She calls him Shifty..and I'd have to agree with aptness of the name...poor dog. And your assessment was correct..they feed off her own vibe.

Southern by choice · Sep 11, 2016

Mine are on the furniture. :lol:

LOL For years I never allowed it... until the dog was old and then I felt they had deserved a little luxury with their old bones and joints.
Now only certain dogs are allowed on the furniture. But the dogs (housedogs) are limited to certain rooms.

When we retired Badger he wouldn't leave the family room.
It took a year before we could even get him to put his paw on the couch. LOL

I hate dog hair. Yet I love hairy dogs!

We just took one of the LGD's to TSC and SS - someone had their little dogs in a baby stroller. :smack

I don't know, it makes me nuts.
Doggy daycare? Are you serious? If you need daycare for your dog then don't get one. :he

Goat Whisperer · Sep 11, 2016

@Beekissed & @Southern by choice I hope you find this as funny as I do :lol:

Beekissed · Sep 11, 2016

A cashier at Rural King saw the huge bones I had and asked me what kind of dogs I had...I told her "Big ones". She laughed and suggested I bring them in next time I come. I looked her in the eye, smiled and gently told her, "They aren't that kind of dogs...these are working dogs."

The smile went right off her face...you'd have thought I said I was beating them with a hose every day.

How dare I deny them the opportunity to go the 20 mi. to town ~they both hate riding in cars and trucks~and stroll through a store!!!!...then get right back in the car/truck and go 20 mi. back...

What a HUGE thrill for a dog.