Pet peeves about your pet!

[AKKR1]

I'm sure all of your dogs are perfect...right? But there are certain things that my dogs do that drive me crazy sometimes!      So a little venting is needed. 

Griffin (RR): Both pet peeves are very characteristic of the breed but sometimes they just bother me more on certain days.  Like completely ignoring you and also being super sensitive.  I got Griffin as an adult and it has almost been a year (in June), but he has a very guilty conscience to him. He thinks that everything is his fault, whether it is or not.  I am not sure how his first 3 years of his life were, but I don't think they were building his self-esteem up in anyway.     

Diesel (lab): Rescue dog from a very bad situation.  He has an oral fixation.  He always has to be carrying something and always drops it at the wrong time.  Like in a bucket of fresh water or by the door I am trying to open so the door gets stuck on it or in the toilet! 

Kiddo (aussie mix):  Okay, I guess Kiddo never gets on my nerves, but is does shed a lot and those hair bunnies don't disappear by themselves. 

I love my dogs more than anything, they are all lovely dogs and wonderful companions.  Sometimes though such simple things can feel like a brick wall!

Venting done and moving on.  So what does your dog do that bothers you?     

[caro]

I have a couple of huge peeves.  Mac keeps taking things out of my pockets.  If sit for a moment and he is nearby he has his nose in  my pocket and it takes quite a lot to get him out.  He also is a compulsive licker.  If he comes to greet you he always has to lick your hand, bare arm or leg.  The more you object the more determined he is.  It's a game to him, but his mouth is not always very clean  

Cat takes all the bedclothes off me at night.  I now keep extra blankets nearby so she can take the bedclothes and I have something to cover me.  She also kicks.

Jodi has a paper fettish.  All the toilet paper in the house has to be kept either out of reach or in a lidded box or she will take it and bite huge holes into the roll so that the rest is useless.  Kleenex too have to be kept out of reach, as do the waste baskets or she will dig through the contents and scatter them all over the floor.

Hintza knows that he mustn't bark at my donkey over the fence but he will sneak out the door when he sees her and stand watching until I come out to get him in and then he starts barking furiously and running up and down the fenceline, all for my benefit.  Talk about conveniently deaf!!  I need an e-collar I think.

Needless to say love them all to death!

Caroline

[kotchfam]

I could do without the dogs licking their nether regions.

 

Kelley

[Deniseeb]

Oh yah, mine are perfect - NOT  .

Gee.  My pet peeve with Beau (15 months) is his inability to hear me, even though he is 2 feet from me.  Another peeve is that he HAS to sleep right on top of me at all times and he does not move at all - even when I push at him.  How come when he pushes me I automatically move to give him more room?  PLUS, he is a big sissy.  My husband stupidly turned the sprinkler on when the dogs were still in the yard.  Guess what?  Now neither one of them wants to go out there.  Great.

My peeve with Finn is that he is so darn cute I can't get made at him  .

Oh.  And the nasty smells  that come from both of them.  Who knew such beautiful dogs  could let out such noxious odors!

Denise

[shodyL]

I agree with the selective hearing thing.  He can't hear me calling him, or telling him "leave it"  from two feet away, but if I pick up the car keys, no matter how far away he was he comes running!

Also a pet peeve of mine are the head butts and nose pokes.  You'd  think I would learn to to lean over him to give him hugs, but no...  And he will swing that big ol' melon into my face every time...  I'm dodging faster though...  And he constantly pokes EVERYTHING with his darn nose.  Not just butts and crotches, although these are favorite targets.  He pokes me in the back of the head while driving and knocks over things on tables, or pushes them off of tables, with his darn nosy nose.  And pokes it into every  bag of purse that comes into the house, or tries too!

He also tries to steal the treats from my pockets.  And I agree, he is so darn cute, sometimes I'm laughing so hard I can't correct him!

[Annette]

Hehe!  

Zeta manage to almost always stand right in front of my feet when I'm moving about.  I also wish she could be a little friendlier towards strangers.

I am not so annoyed by Sali carrying his blankets around and dropping them wherever it suits him, but when he starts om his and Zetas' bed and my bedspread as well...  Sali also jumps at everything that moves, being it bikes, cars, busses, which can be a bit nerve wrecking at times.

[Annette]

And pokes it into every  bag of purse that comes into the house, or tries too!

Zeta even goes for bags carried by strangers on the street, just in case they have something edible in theirs.   

[Lynn]

Good Lord where to even begin.... 

I'll just start with a couple:

June - uses her nose to poke EVERYTHING.  Constantly knocks everything over with her nose poking,  walks behind me poking my legs, etc...

June - refuses to sleep in past 5:30am.  Whines, Whines, Whines.  When she's bored, we all pay dearly.

J.C. - when I am laying on my bed on my back watching TV, every time, EVERY TIME, he must lay his big body between my legs.  He will force himself between them.  Why can't he just lay beside my legs like a normal dog?  It is like he wants to lay with my legs hugging him. 

J.C. - baby barks when he is outside and wants in...it is so high pitched that I always expect glass to start shattering. 

[machem]

J.C. acts like the outdoors is another planet, devoid of air, light, heat.  He acts like going outside is the worst punishment ever.  His baby bark to be let in is ear-piercing.  I'm sure our eardrums are permanently damaged from this.

J.C. insists on finding the one small part of our commonest running area that still has mud (vile, stinky, grey-black mud which seems to have boiled up from hell itself) and delights in running through it.  Repeatedly.

I don't think Junebug ever does anything wrong.  She's perfect.   


Cheers

Mike

[Lynn]

I don't think Junebug ever does anything wrong.  She's perfect.   

Have you forgotten her consumption of your very expensive new eye glasses that has now left you relying on your old scratched up and worn out glasses?

 

[machem]

That was a momentary lapse.  A peeve requires repeated instances in order to build annoyance.

I wasn't annoyed about my glasses.  I was PISSED!



Cheers

Mike

[Tracdun]

LOL!! I just love the back and forth messages between Lynne and Mike.  I can totally see my hubby and I in these messages - laugh out loud funny.

I tend to also think Lucy is perfect so looking for fault is hard... then I remember the 2100$ surgery last month because she likes to ingest undies... yes, then there is also the fact that she thinks she'S a missile and propels herself underneath the blanket in bed and it takes both my husband and I to move her because she literally puts all her weight down and WILL NOT MOVE... oh yes, and there's the fact that Princess refuses to walk on anything wet - including wet grass...

But other than that... PERFECTION

[Lynn]

Tracey -   

How could I foget JC's annoying butter obsession?!  We practically need an armed guard to protect the butter. 

And, June's annoying and relentless counter surfing - she is way worse than JC.   She has the nerve to counter surf right in your face - as in you look to your side expecting to see your spouse because you can "feel" another prescense "working" at the kitchen counter with you and you are astounded that you are elbow to elbow with June!  Well, I guess technically this should be Mike's pet peeve since I am never actually at the kitchen counter doing anything since I don't cook.     She's afraid of the water bottle but she is such a determined little bitch that she keeps trying.      My girl has tenacity.

[shodyL]

Oh yes, I must second some of these pet peeves!

Butter obsession, counter surfing and refusal to get the royal tootsies wet.  Heaven forbid...

[Deniseeb]

Gee, Lynn.  That sooo reminds me of Beau's counter obsession.  I will be working in one section, push the cutting board all the way to the back of the counter, step to my left or right to do something else, turn back AND THERE HE IS RIGHT NEXT TO ME STANDING AT THE COUNTER, AS TALL AS i AM, EATING THE STEAK I JUST CUT.

How on earth did I forget that one? 

And he's not really as tall as I am, but darn tootin' close.   

Denise