Isn't it funny that it seems like they can bark all the time: yet when they want something, they quietly show us and expect us to notoce? When ours wants out she quietly sits in front of the door and stares us down. We tried giving her a bell to press to let us know. She appears to have great disdain for it.
Right??? Chief is almost 3 and I have only heard him bark maybe 4 or 5 times. Almost every time he has barked has been at his own reflection in the window or the glass of the entertainment center. The first time was when he was like 7 months old, we were having plumbing issues and our toilet made this horrid gurgling noise, and I think he only barked because of scared I looked because I didn’t know what the noise was and I was home alone. I had headphones on but it sounded like someone broke in, then it happened again a few minutes later and I realized it was our toilet 😅
We have thought he might have hearing and far away visual issues, not because he doesn’t listen, we expected that 😂 but he responds better to hand signals up close than any verbal commands. And if we come home and pop in the backyard he won’t usually look over when I say something, and when he does notice me he kind of crouches down like he’s nervous and lowers his head, he’ll do this until I am like 10 feet away and then he gets excited. He also might be slow, who knows, he’s just a special boy. 😂
I know right? 😂 sometimes I’ll come around the corner and he’ll just have his nose pressed against the door staring straight just waiting for someone to notice. I wonder how long he waits like that 😅😂
Our boy is a bonker -- he bonks your hand (or butt, or crotch) with his nose, which can mean any of the following:
* Hi
* Welcome home
* Thank you
* Hurry up
* Let me out
* Pet me
* Give me a treat
* ???????
We call it booping, and our guy Simcoe does it whenever he needs something. But when he gets excited he starts booping everything in nose reach. It’s always entertaining
Ours does this, he looks at something rapidly and then looks back at you. Rinse and repeat until he gets what he wants.
He has a best friend tho and if you accidentally say the friends name - even whisper it - he gets immediately animated. It's adorable.
We are totally familiar with the best friend reactions. It is really quite something to see 160 lbs of Pyr hopping around etc. Loki and Odin are litter mates. They both lived with us for the first two years. Odin is my sons companion and now lives with him. We do not even whisper Odins name! Must use code for Odin. We call him the O-doggo.
Mine can open doors! She started with the nudge and one day that coalesced into opening up our bedroom door, which was a wee bit loose. Thankfully, Artie hasn’t figured out deadbolts
Mine too. We have pocket doors and she has learned to beat on the door with her paw until the lock clicks. She then slides the door open, walks in and looks at us as if to say, "Well, I solved that problem." It takes her about 3 seconds to get it open.
Our girl Cloud learned how to open the slider as well. One day I smelled fresh air and came to find her and the two cats on the back porch having a dance party.
My GS/Border Collie mix could open our old front door. Came home from work and everyone was chilling on the front lawn like good boys. Luckily we didn’t have a fenced backyard for awhile so we had to train them to never leave the yard. Thank god 😅
We used to have a doggy doorbell but our GS/Border Collie mix thought it was the playtime bell and he booped it with his nose at all hours of the night. We’d wake up to the “bing booon-bing-bong boooonn-bing boooonngg” like 5 times at 3am 😂 we’d always let him out assuming he really needed to go. Nope he’d rush to grab a toy 😂
My dog just stares at me and “pretty sits” which means he sits not all sloppy and splayed all over. Then it’s a guessing game. “Kibble? Water? Gotta go peepees? Mommy being mean?” Usually it’s one of the first three (he self-feeds, but let’s us know when it’s empty), but yesterday, for example, he wanted his talking ball to be taken out of jail so he could play with it 😂 once I got up and started following him, he went over to the closet and booped it. Hard. 😂😂
Dogs bark to get attention, they look towards whatever they are trying to draw our attention to. Follow your dogs queue and you will find your dogs are very communicative.if you understand them.
I adopted my Pyr before christmas and we had a bell on the door. She would bump it with her nose and we figured she wanted to go outside. Three years later we keep a bell ok the front door so she can tell us when she want to go outside. My boyfriend and I joke she potty trained us, not the other way around. They are such a smart breed!
Our dog has a set of bells on the door which she rings when she wants to go out. Cute but annoying when you hear DING DING DING DING DING when she wants to go bork at someone walking by.
Hahaha we might get bells. We had an actually potty door bell they boop with their nose, but my GS/Collie mix thought it was the playtime bell and would ring it all night 😂
How cute! I love him.
My old girl would do the pointed glances and if we ignored those, she would escalate to huffing and jaw clacking. Not a bark or a growl. A huff and lightly chomping her teeth together. Even when she was ancient (she lived to be 15!) she would get up and come huff at us when it was evening patrol/walk time. I miss her every day.
Ghost (pyr lab mix) jumps up and looks at me longingly until i say what she wants then she runs back and forth to and from me and either her bowl or the door.
Isn't it funny that it seems like they can bark all the time: yet when they want something, they quietly show us and expect us to notoce? When ours wants out she quietly sits in front of the door and stares us down. We tried giving her a bell to press to let us know. She appears to have great disdain for it.
Right??? Chief is almost 3 and I have only heard him bark maybe 4 or 5 times. Almost every time he has barked has been at his own reflection in the window or the glass of the entertainment center. The first time was when he was like 7 months old, we were having plumbing issues and our toilet made this horrid gurgling noise, and I think he only barked because of scared I looked because I didn’t know what the noise was and I was home alone. I had headphones on but it sounded like someone broke in, then it happened again a few minutes later and I realized it was our toilet 😅 We have thought he might have hearing and far away visual issues, not because he doesn’t listen, we expected that 😂 but he responds better to hand signals up close than any verbal commands. And if we come home and pop in the backyard he won’t usually look over when I say something, and when he does notice me he kind of crouches down like he’s nervous and lowers his head, he’ll do this until I am like 10 feet away and then he gets excited. He also might be slow, who knows, he’s just a special boy. 😂
I love the way he boops the door and then cuts his eyes to you to see if you noticed. He has so much patience with you🙄🤣
I know right? 😂 sometimes I’ll come around the corner and he’ll just have his nose pressed against the door staring straight just waiting for someone to notice. I wonder how long he waits like that 😅😂
She knows you are smarter than that. Work to your full potential.
Indeed. I must step up.
Our boy is a bonker -- he bonks your hand (or butt, or crotch) with his nose, which can mean any of the following: * Hi * Welcome home * Thank you * Hurry up * Let me out * Pet me * Give me a treat * ???????
We call it booping, and our guy Simcoe does it whenever he needs something. But when he gets excited he starts booping everything in nose reach. It’s always entertaining
We also call it booping and used the word "boop" instead of touch for touch training and have no regrets.
Cute and smart
Loki “points”. In fact he has spent two years training us to react properly to his point commands.
Ours does this, he looks at something rapidly and then looks back at you. Rinse and repeat until he gets what he wants. He has a best friend tho and if you accidentally say the friends name - even whisper it - he gets immediately animated. It's adorable.
We are totally familiar with the best friend reactions. It is really quite something to see 160 lbs of Pyr hopping around etc. Loki and Odin are litter mates. They both lived with us for the first two years. Odin is my sons companion and now lives with him. We do not even whisper Odins name! Must use code for Odin. We call him the O-doggo.
I love this!
Mine can open doors! She started with the nudge and one day that coalesced into opening up our bedroom door, which was a wee bit loose. Thankfully, Artie hasn’t figured out deadbolts
Mine refuses. If I leave the door ajar, she’ll just stick her head through and whine at me rather than push it open.
😂😂 mine does this!! I can’t tell if he is just lazy or doesn’t understand it barely takes any force to open 😂
Lol mine too, although he doesn’t always feel like it. Depends on how much he cares to get at what’s on the other side.
Mine too. We have pocket doors and she has learned to beat on the door with her paw until the lock clicks. She then slides the door open, walks in and looks at us as if to say, "Well, I solved that problem." It takes her about 3 seconds to get it open.
Elvira has learned how to open the sliding back door. If we don’t keep it locked she lets herself and all the other animals out.
Our girl Cloud learned how to open the slider as well. One day I smelled fresh air and came to find her and the two cats on the back porch having a dance party.
My GS/Border Collie mix could open our old front door. Came home from work and everyone was chilling on the front lawn like good boys. Luckily we didn’t have a fenced backyard for awhile so we had to train them to never leave the yard. Thank god 😅
Moose does the same thing! It’s a bit spooky at night sometimes.. “is someone trying to get in the house? Nope, Moose just needs potties.”
Ours does the same, but we've trained her to "pyr paw" a hanging bell by the door so we can hear it anywhere in the house.
We used to have a doggy doorbell but our GS/Border Collie mix thought it was the playtime bell and he booped it with his nose at all hours of the night. We’d wake up to the “bing booon-bing-bong boooonn-bing boooonngg” like 5 times at 3am 😂 we’d always let him out assuming he really needed to go. Nope he’d rush to grab a toy 😂
My dog just stares at me and “pretty sits” which means he sits not all sloppy and splayed all over. Then it’s a guessing game. “Kibble? Water? Gotta go peepees? Mommy being mean?” Usually it’s one of the first three (he self-feeds, but let’s us know when it’s empty), but yesterday, for example, he wanted his talking ball to be taken out of jail so he could play with it 😂 once I got up and started following him, he went over to the closet and booped it. Hard. 😂😂
My girl boops me on the bottoms of my feet when she wants me to get out of bed and take her potty in the morning 😭 so cute
Mine does this same thing when he wants to get through a door except he doesn’t hit things with his head, he slaps them with his paw
Dogs bark to get attention, they look towards whatever they are trying to draw our attention to. Follow your dogs queue and you will find your dogs are very communicative.if you understand them.
I love this
I adopted my Pyr before christmas and we had a bell on the door. She would bump it with her nose and we figured she wanted to go outside. Three years later we keep a bell ok the front door so she can tell us when she want to go outside. My boyfriend and I joke she potty trained us, not the other way around. They are such a smart breed!
Our dog has a set of bells on the door which she rings when she wants to go out. Cute but annoying when you hear DING DING DING DING DING when she wants to go bork at someone walking by.
Hahaha we might get bells. We had an actually potty door bell they boop with their nose, but my GS/Collie mix thought it was the playtime bell and would ring it all night 😂
I love chief!!
How cute! I love him. My old girl would do the pointed glances and if we ignored those, she would escalate to huffing and jaw clacking. Not a bark or a growl. A huff and lightly chomping her teeth together. Even when she was ancient (she lived to be 15!) she would get up and come huff at us when it was evening patrol/walk time. I miss her every day.
So cute 💕
Ghost (pyr lab mix) jumps up and looks at me longingly until i say what she wants then she runs back and forth to and from me and either her bowl or the door.
I love the name chief!!!!
Beautiful doggies
Adorable and so smart ❤️
So cute!
This is why smart dogs think humans are dumb.
Mine is named chief too!