General Chat

My dog can tell the time, at 4.00pm every day he brings his ball, he knows it's playtime. If have something to finish first and I say soon, he will wait next to me, if I say later, he will go away and come back later.

Thats exactly like mine Muffy over family and friends.......

When he was a pup Mum and I tried to train him to take the post and newspaper from the door to take to Dad lol.....but it did not work as he got older!! He just see's at destroying the paper's and post now....nawty dog! :-|

Harper barks like crazy at anyone at the door Mersey...I can't seem to stop her either ..oddly though she knows instinctively if it's my mum and dad or my friends...and just meanders up to them for a fuss.....how she can tell the difference between one car door closing and another I have no idea !

My dog makes a yawning sound and sits down to let me know he wants out lol.....

He does bark when the Postman or paperboy arrives in fact he totally loses it but I blame myself for this....I have tried to fix the problem but think it may be a bit too late now :-(

I don't have a dog now but the dogs next door are a nightmare, they bark at anything and everything through the night and the day. The owner sometimes stays away at his girlfriend's but even when there he ignores their barking. They spend a lot of time alone, as he works. Everyone around here is fed up with the disturbance. I am usually up during the night and used to look out if they barked thinking someone or something was about but the security lights were not on (motion sensor ones) so heaven knows what they bark at.

The owner is an idiot, when he got one of the dogs as a new puppy he brought it home, left it in the conservatory where they sleep, with the older dog and went off to his girlfriend's for the night. Early hours of the morning we heard whimpering and thought the old dog, as we thought the only one, was in distress. When we looked out we saw the puppy crying in the garden, he hadn't even told us it was there let alone gone off and left it. Moron.

Lizx

My dog, a heartbeat at my feet.

Jay Boy our rescue springer was ill treated and chained in a yard for over two years. Sooo when we got him I gave him a bed at the side of mine so if he needed to go out I would wake and let him in the garden,(better that than to get him used to peeing downstairs on mi carpets). The first 5 weeks were horrendous every 3 hrs but now he sleeps until 5.50 am 10 mins before my alarm goes off and we have never had any accidents. He woke me by puffing with his awful breath in my face. Hope to cure this with a trip to the dentist next week. ;-)

Our Westie never bothers us, he waits till we get up.
Such a good boy :-)

Emma

He never wakes us in the night cause he wants a pee, but if l can't sleep and go down stairs he will often go out and do one anyways:)...what a good boy:))
The only time he wakes us is if he hears something, like the milkman at 4 or 5am

jude ;-) :-)

In the beginning was the dog
The real name of Jehovah is Rover
Adam's rib is buried in the garden

(with thanks to John Hegley)

Roy :-D <3

“The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state my dog is full of love.

I've also found, by actual test,
When he is wet, he is the loveliest.”

Woof! Woof!

Well to be honest, I could be wrong about him waking (me or OH) having given some thought to the situation OH's side of the bed is nearest the door :-0 so it may be that she has him better trained than I thought :-|

Barb, I think its because of the best friend thing :-D

Gins, He is a 2 year old dog, The middle of night and oldie thing doesn't apply to me YET ;-)

He is very sweet and gentle with family and friends but very protective when family is approached by strangers he always puts himself between us and any stranger.

Roy

I have to say I'm never woken up in the middle of the night by either of my two.

If they need to *go* during the day they will keep pacing about and refuse to settle until they're let out..........but I mostly let them out for a try every couple of hours anyhow.......

My nearly 15 year old dog has a bladder like a camel and sphincter muscles like...well I can't think of the word right now! lol She has never ever woken me up in the night...she is so polite :-D

The only thing that wakes me is when she is dreaming and makes snorting sounds.

Roy, I think your dog is so sweet and so gentle <3

Roy

Is 'he' a 'dog' or a 'bitch' ?

If 'dog', you must know what the middle of night means, to an oldie ;-)

Ahhhhh the glory of cats and the cat flap :-D

Daughter has a problem with her 3 year old son though.
Posted on Facebook:

Dear J.
Whilst technically correct, it is morning-time, 04:30 is, frankly, an abominable time to wake up, and mummy would really like more than 5 hours sleep per night.
Thanks everso.
Mum. X

Ps. I don't give a monkeys where your Tree Fu Flippin' Tom is. It's 4:30. Down your trouser leg you say? Again! Oh, you wag.

Hi Roy

My beautiful G.Shepherd used to come round to my hubby's side of the bed, never mine, and doggy whisper in his ear. She was such a gentle soul.
He used to get up straight away talking sweet nothings to her. If I ever had to wake him, it was all moans and groans :-)

I think I must be the only one on GR with a dog or only one with a dog that needs to take a leak in the middle of the night :-S

Roy

He sends me a text message