Dear Dog:

EAT YOUR berkeleyING TREAT.  STOP 'BURYING' IT AROUND THE HOUSE.  EAT IT!

My dog is weird.  9/10 treats you give him he eats.  1/10 he will hold in his mouth and pace and whine to take outside.  If you don't let him, he'll hide them under his bed, under my bed, under the couch, etc.

He used to do that, then retrieve them after a short period and eat them.  Now he just leaves them forever.  Wtf?

He's learning hoarding behavior of things he loves from watching you with car parts. 

captdownshift said:

He's learning hoarding behavior of things he loves from watching you with car parts. 

I knew that would backfire on me one day.

captdownshift said:

He's learning hoarding behavior of things he loves from watching you with car parts. 

This made me laugh out loud as I’m sitting in line at the DMV. Thank you  for the entertainment.

No idea about the dog. Sometimes they just do weird things. One of ours always takes her treat to the same spot in the living room and eats it there, don’t know why.

In reply to BlueInGreen - Jon :

LOL, our dog has a milk bone spot as well. She will eat other treats in other places, but if you give her a mil bone she makes a beeline for one particular spot.

Mine just horks down whatever we give him in place.

I had an Australian Shepard at one point that would take a mouth full of dry food out of the bowl, maybe 8 or 10 bits of kibble, move three steps to the right, drop it on the floor and eat them one at a time there. He was was also the one where we had half his lower jaw removed from a tumor and refused to eat wet food.

Don't give the dog so many treats.

My front yard is a graveyard of forgotten rawhides. Future societies will excavate my yard and wonder why we stored knotted cow skins in shallow pits. Our dog tries like hell to sneak them outside, so we have to be vigilante when we let her out. She a young Rott-mutt that needs to chew, so making sure she has a chew toy inside the house is a priority. Once she sneaks one outside and it gets rained on, you now have a useless $4 rawhide noodle.

On the odd occasion she will decline to chew on a new bone and carry it around like it is her woobie. Sleeps with it, sits it in front of her on the floor and licks it endlessly. After a few days she will finally chew on it, but it is just weird man.

captdownshift said:

He's learning hoarding behavior of things he loves from watching you with car parts. 

I'm on a plane and just snorted coffee! Seat neighbor not amused.

He also loves to take his nylabone toys out of his toy basket and move them to the floor between my bed and the bathroom.  When I get up to pee I step/slip on one and almost kill myself.

I like the idea of this thread....

Dear Dog:

Look- I've known your 'mom' (my wife) for longer than you've been alive, and the three of us have lived together for over 5 years now. It's about time you stopped trying to force yourself between us whenever she and I hug or kiss- I'm clearly not any threat to her, and I'm also not going to take her away from you. Give it a rest.

Nylabones break teeth. A lot.

One dentistry specialist commented that if more people bought them he could put his three kids through college. 

Fraiser Hale was the first board certified veterinary Dentistry specialist in Ontario. I often quote his three part test for dog chews to my clients. With the appropriate attribution to Dr. Hale, here they are:

1. If it's too hard to chew with your own teeth, don't give it to the dog.

2. If it would damage the soft wood of a pine tabletop if you dropped it on the table, don't give it to the dog.

3. If you wouldn't want someone to Club you in the knee with it, don't give it to the dog!

Dear Dog,

You are a tiny killer.  You notice, bark at, and attempt to destroy anything that moves. You can  smell things that are a mile away. Why do I have to nearly shove your face into a treat for you to notice it?

Floating Doc said:

Nylabones break teeth. A lot.

One dentistry specialist commented that if more people bought them he could put his three kids through college. 

Fraiser Hale was the first board certified veterinary Dentistry specialist in Ontario. I often quote his three part test for dog chews to my clients. With the appropriate attribution to Dr. Hale, here they are:

1. If it's too hard to chew with your own teeth, don't give it to the dog.

2. If it would damage the soft wood of a pine tabletop if you dropped it on the table, don't give it to the dog.

3. If you wouldn't want someone to Club you in the knee with it, don't give it to the dog!

We bought one of those things once. Once. Dog wouldn't touch it, and swear it was just a piece of PVC plastic. We give her rawhides in moderation (only after she has been fed). She seems to be happy chewing on sticks in the yard and the occasional basketball. The basketball thing is hilarious, as her mouth is big enough to pick it up (blew my mind) so we play soccer together. I kick the ball, she chases it, great exercise for both of us.

My dog has tennis balls everywhere.  I am constantly finding them when I clean and when i think I found them all he pulls out another one.  He has also started leaving them at other people's houses.  We went to my mother's house a few months ago and my niece wanted to play with him.  No sooner had I told her I forgot to pack a ball and he ran to the living room and pulled one out from under the sofa.  

The0retical said:

Mine just horks down whatever we give him in place.

I had an Australian Shepard at one point that would take a mouth full of dry food out of the bowl, maybe 8 or 10 bits of kibble, move three steps to the right, drop it on the floor and eat them one at a time there. He was was also the one where we had half his lower jaw removed from a tumor and refused to eat wet food.

My dog (lab / Lancashire heeler mix) doed this with her food if theres anyone in our front room. She wants to watch people and eat at the same time i guess. 

Ashyukun (Robert) said:

I like the idea of this thread....

Dear Dog:

Look- I've known your 'mom' (my wife) for longer than you've been alive, and the three of us have lived together for over 5 years now. It's about time you stopped trying to force yourself between us whenever she and I hug or kiss- I'm clearly not any threat to her, and I'm also not going to take her away from you. Give it a rest.

Heh. Our (female) pup used to do that, except she would sometimes hump my wife’s leg while interrupting. Rude.

I had one (5/8ths Pit Bull, 1/4 Rhodesian Ridgeback) that I would give treats to after her toenail trim.  She was an inside dog.  The treats, the small size generic milk bones, were kept behind the trash can in the always open cabinet.  She really liked them and it was a special treat to get one.  A couple days before she died, she went to the bag behind the trash can and ate the whole thing.  It was like "Bucket list.  Check."

In reply to Wally :

Do you have a border collie by chance? 

Ours eats poop.  No treat. 

In reply to vwcorvette :

Cat turds ARE treats.

Now you know.

Dear dog

Your farts can make the paint peal off walls and yet you don’t  seem to even notice them. In fact I swear I see a little smirk on you face as we all run for cover as the gas cloud fills the room sending us humans running for our lives. 

I only ask that you tell me when you start to feel the need to let loose one of these gas’s bombs so I may let you out side. I will give you an extra treat or even leave the lid up so you can ignore your freshly changed water dish as I know You think the toilet is your own personal fresh water dispenser. 

In reply to captdownshift :

He's a Cocker Spaniel

My boxer pit eats stuff wherever you give it to him. Half the time I'm not entirely sure he chewed it at all, it's just gone. My Aussie heeler will sprint into the next room and hide in a corner. 

Dear dog: please stop stepping on my private parts. It’s not like there aren’t other places to put your feet and I’m beginning to suspect you’re doing it on purpose.