LPT: if your dog is being playful and you need to catch them, try running away to have them chase and catch you.
My dog stopped falling for this after I got her to chase me back into the house a few times
Mine always stops before the doorway
This is clever and adorable :)
Extra pro tip for new dog owners:
Try to never, ever, EVER. chase your dog. If they don’t think it’s a game, they won’t do this.
Of course there are emergencies, but try to always make it a game of them coming to you.
i learned this when i was, like, 6 or 7 with my family dog.
it always works!
If your dog is ever running and you can’t catch them act hurt. Pretend to fall and hurt your knee. Most likely it will come back and check on you and you grab it, unless it’s playing with something else then good luck
And praise them when they return. If you yell at our punish them, they’ll associate it with returning rather than running off.
Play bow. Dogs do this to each other, too, as a signal that they want to play.
Source: I speak dog.
Source: I speak dog
Oh yeah?? Say three words in dog!
Bark, woof, grrrrr
Bravo! Although, I repeated it to my dog and she seemed offended…
Are you sure you didn’t say arf woof grrr? Huge mistake.
Of course, dogs have many varied dialects, but these are the kinds of things I see dogs saying to each other:
- Butt sniff = “I am meeting you! Can I meet you?” This may receive a snarl and snap and bared teeth response, which usually means “I’m not comfortable around new dogs because I have dogtism, give me a minute.”
- Biting and snarling at another dog’s neck while the tail is wagging = “WE ARE PLAYING! THIS IS FUN!”
- Barking at dogs which are play biting at each other’s necks = “Are you okay? I think you’re okay, but I’m not sure, because I’m only a dog.”
Dogs also code switch between talking to other dogs and talking to humans. Furthermore, when dogs talk to humans, they generally tailor their vocabulary specifically to the people who they interact with most.
- Laying on the back or side and making a “face swipe” pantomime with one paw to their own face = “It is time to pet me.”
- Going straight to the front door and sitting at noon or 9PM = “It is time for my nap or bedtime. You will let me outside in front to go potty, after which I will eagerly run in, straight into my crate, and wait for my cookies.”
- Stopping and looking back at you after you let him out the back door = “Are you going to come out? I really want you to come out and play frisbee.”
He speaketh the language of the mutt!
I always thought they did that to widen their stance so they can dart in any direction quickly.
It’s a play bow
I bought a 25 foot leash when training my dog. I’ll never catch him if he doesn’t want me to, but I can get within 25 feet of him.
We use that on trails so he can be “free”
Also helps that he’s 10lbs, the 10m leash slows him down just from dragging on the ground
My boy has since passed on, but he would never consider leaving us. So we just let him off the leash on the trails. Whenever we heard people ahead of us we’d call him back and put him back on the leash until they were out of earshot again. It never caused any problems in the 12 years he was with us. Such a precious, beautiful boy.
Same with mine. When he was new to us, he ran away twice so I put him on a leash strictly and put a GPS tracker on him. Thought he just wasn’t one of those off the leash dogs. A year later a friend of mine told me “just cut him loose”. I told him he runs, he looked at the dog and said “nah. He isn’t going to. Try it.”
Was hectars and hectars of his private forest, so I thought “what the hell, we’ll find him with the tracker when he’s hungry” and massive surprise: He really never ran off. Not that day and never since. 20m ahead, 20m back, never have to worry, as soon as people can be heard or he loses sight of me he’s by my side immediately.
Such a good boy! He just needed to know where he belongs.
That’s what I guess as well. Well, he’s got that figured out, I think:
I don’t know why, but I never made the connection of this pose to the term “reared-up” (meaning ready to go/launch) until recently.
Wow, I always thought reared up was when a horse gets up on it’s back legs.
That is a meaning for the phrase, yes
face down ass up thats the way we like to play
That may be because the term “reared up” is not connected to this pose at all.
