The stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does
I will start with Harry ...... I am ever so proud of this one.   The stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does........ he is perplexed on where the squirrels go when he is chasing them. He chases them at rip roaring speed to the tree and then POOF they are gone. He will circle and circle the tree looking for them at his level. Heck, I can hear them running up the tree from the distance I am standing but he never looks up. Just circles the tree and then gives up. I have even tried to get him to look up at them but he hasn't a clue. My previous OES would follow them from down below just in case one decided to come back down into her range. I have seen him look up at a plane buzzing in the air so I know he knows there are things above his head. Okay everyone spill. I know I am not the only one with a sheepdog that acts embarrassingly stupid at times. |
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| Chases shadows: birds, airplanes, smoke from fires When a pup she barked at her own late afternoon shadow, "Who's following me?" |
| when ever i take dreamer out if someone is sitting on a bench or chair why does he have to back up and sit on their lap and dangle his feet |
| Gosh..Judi...there are SOOOO many things Heart does..I don't know which one to choose..I MAY have to post again at a later time......but here goes... The stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does........ is let HARRY take FULL advantage of her sweetness and naivety... If they are playing at the dog park, and I call Heart to me to give her a treat, she will not take it UNLESS Harry does.... ~~IF Harry decides to play with another dog at the dog park Heart will either follow 'them' around like a 3rd wheel...OR she will pathetically walk to the side and 'graze' on the grass until Harry is done... It is quite embarrassing and very upsetting to her momma!!! ONE day....hopefully very soon, the light bulb will turn on.  ...and then Harry better watch it!!!! Talk about a women's scorn!!!!  (Pearl, does nothing stupid...I think when you get to be her age...she has it ALL figured out!!!  ) |
| The stupid thing my otherwise intelligent OES did was.... He freaked out at a stain-glass moon that is hanging in our front room. The sad thing, is we had Wendel nearly 8 months and he decided to look up and freaked out. He backed up and bark-bark-barked at the twirling moon. We had to take it down to appease him. I put it up a few days later and he didn't notice it. Another thing Wendel did that was questionable wass... he was afraid of a cow hoof! NO lie! I got he and Asterisk cow hooves to chew on and he put it on the ground and was super jumpy around it. He growled, pawed, sniffed and kept a distance to it. Asterisk came over to grab it, Wendel growled at her, grabbed the menacing cow hoof and brought it into the office to be afraid of it alone. |
Quote: grabbed the menacing cow hoof and brought it into the office to be afraid of it alone.  |
| Chauncey also has a problem with those pesky squirels....now he will chase them to the tree and do a pointer stance while looking up in the tree Maybe he's breed confused |
| Clyde is like a little old man. If he's scorned once by something, he swears off of it for life. A good example: we have a gate that separates the kitchen from the rest of the house. It's only there because if I'm cooking, all the dogs want to help by taking up residence in our relatively small kitchen to "help." About two months ago, I was moving the gate (it's expandable and almost 96 inches long so it's a good sized gate) and I dropped it as I was moving it. Well, it scared the crap out of Clyde. Now whenever I go anywhere near the gate to move it, Clyde moves a good 15 feet away like I'm going to drop it every time. I told him "Clyde, have some faith. I'm not going to drop it again." But he's done. He's sure every time it's going to come crashing down again. Forget all the other successful gate moves that we had for years before that, Clyde only remembers the bad. |
| 11 and 4 years old, respectively, and both of my dogs still forget every spring, that its ok to pee on grass (as opposed to snow). They are stubbornly peeing on the one small, rapidly vanishing patch of snow in the yard, and if they follow the usual pattern, once its gone they'll both try very had to hold it for days before they give up and pee on the (brown) grass. |
| When Patch backs into something be it a plastic grocery bag on the breakfast room chair, the front of the couch, the office desk, or my purse sitting on a chair, she turns around and barks at it while wagging her bum, saying "if I am nice to you object, please don't hurt me." It is hilarious to watch her bark at a chair or a plastic bag or a purse, etc. As to the squirrels, i love when they run from Patch and walk above her on the fence without her noticing. |
| The stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does... Baley my oldest is afraid of basketballs and pumpkins. I don't know why just orange spheres set him off. Footballs, volleyballs, softballs and baseballs are all ok--but the basketball is the enemy!  He walks slowly toward it if it is in the driveway or the yard and then backs up and barks and barks until someone moves it to a place where he cannot see it.Halloween is rather amusing too--I always put a big pumpkin on my island and Baley will bark at it every time he passes it. Too funny!  |
| Checker's KNOWS the sliding door is how to go outside. and where it is. But yet runs into it every morning like "OH YEAHhhhhhhhh it has to be OPENED'........DUH |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THAT must be genetic...Heart does the same thing...and then she gets really embarrassed..... |
ravenmoonart wrote: 11 and 4 years old, respectively, and both of my dogs still forget every spring, that its ok to pee on grass (as opposed to snow). They are stubbornly peeing on the one small, rapidly vanishing patch of snow in the yard, and if they follow the usual pattern, once its gone they'll both try very had to hold it for days before they give up and pee on the (brown) grass. |
| I had a small table-top make-up mirror that broke - I set it on the floor by the door of my bedroom to take out, then went about getting my kids ready for the day. Harley started to follow me from the bedroom, but then realized she was TRAPPED because of this terrifying mirror! She would creep up to it, try to walk around it, see herself and BARKBARKBARK while she jumped backward to get away. Over and over until I finally came back and picked up the mirror and she RAN out of the room. After we laughed for a good long while at the silly puppy, I put it on the kitchen counter to grab the rest of my things while I was heading out the door - and she put on the brakes at the kitchen door - wouldn't step foot in the kitchen while that mirror was there. |
ravenmoonart wrote: 11 and 4 years old, respectively, and both of my dogs still forget every spring, that its ok to pee on grass (as opposed to snow). They are stubbornly peeing on the one small, rapidly vanishing patch of snow in the yard, and if they follow the usual pattern, once its gone they'll both try very had to hold it for days before they give up and pee on the (brown) grass.OMG Laurel - that has got to be the funniest thing I have ever heard. Keep them coming guys. I am enjoying them all especially Checkers walking into a door daily. |
| I had a large Merrymac sheepdog on my fireplace hearth. I finally had to move it because the dogs thought it was another dog and couldn't figure out why it didn't eat or play .Daisy would run up and bark in it's face, the boys would play bow and then bark in it's face. I ended up putting it in the garage because it was getting so ridiculous |
SheepieMommy wrote: Complete the statement on this hopefully fun topic. I will start with Harry ...... I am ever so proud of this one. The stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does........ he is perplexed on where the squirrels go when he is chasing them. He chases them at rip roaring speed to the tree and then POOF they are gone. He will circle and circle the tree looking for them at his level. Heck, I can hear them running up the tree from the distance I am standing but he never looks up. Just circles the tree and then gives up. I have even tried to get him to look up at them but he hasn't a clue. My previous OES would follow them from down below just in case one decided to come back down into her range. I have seen him look up at a plane buzzing in the air so I know he knows there are things above his head. Okay everyone spill. I know I am not the only one with a sheepdog that acts embarrassingly stupid at times. You need to get Harry his own coonhound.  Maggie has taught all our dogs (even old bassets) to find things in trees and bark like crazy.......  |
got sheep wrote: You need to get Harry his own coonhound. Or Maggie could just come for a visit and teach the dummy how to look up in trees. That would be cheaper in the long run. Does she prefer the train or the plane? |
SheepieMommy wrote: got sheep wrote: You need to get Harry his own coonhound. Or Maggie could just come for a visit and teach the dummy how to look up in trees. That would be cheaper in the long run. Does she prefer the train or the plane? I think she would prefer the train...better scenery |
| the stupid thing my otherwise seemingly intelligent OES does..... we buy sadie all these awsome toys designed for playing tug of war with ... and she refuses to play with any of them ... she will ONLY play tug with these cute stuffed cartoon looking yellow ducks ( like the one in the movie "click" ) they're litterally the same SIZE as her ... and she insists on tearing them apart flailing their fluffy filling all over the room. she's also run into glass doors, chased bunnies behind bushes and then not known where they went, she only plays with basketballs ( and orange footballs ) ... no other ball intersts her at all ... she does a million other stupid things ... but most of them are a one time deal ... she's not really that slow of a learner at least  now if there was a thread about ANOYING HUMAN-LIKE things my OES does .... i'd have a billion  orders food for herself at drive throughs, she sticks her head out the window and whines at the little speaker box ... she steals pillows and uses them ...properly ... she covers herself with blankets , even if it means stealing them from off of us first . if we're sitting on the couch with her, and one of us gets up ... she leaves her seat, and takes ours .... ( theif ) she watches movies ... hard core watches them ... she can sit and watch a 3 hour movie and never let her eyes leave the tv even when the door bell rings. we're beggining to think she needs more time with other dogs ..... :-s |
| This could be a very long list. I'll start with just a few things that Frankie does. He chases his shadow or mine in the Kitchen at night, but only in the kitchen he runs around like a fool. Every morning when I take him to day care, he crashes right into there glass doors. That are marked with alot of writing. Then when him and daddy play tug of war in the house and Troy throws his toy. Frankie doesn't know where it went. He runs in circles looks at daddy. Like hey dude what did you do with my toy? We usually have to point it out to him then he jumps up like it's his long lost friend. Lisa and Frankie |
| There are a few here - - Gigi of course runs after squirrels - and wind, airplanes, helicoptors, birds and tree branches swaying in the wind. Bogey just follows but has no clue what she is barking at. Bogey at times will bark at a noise from a lawnmower, then he hides behind me. |
| Bogey and the lawn mower reminded me of what sadie does to the vacumme .... she attacks it ... when it's off she's perfectly happy to curl up with it , snuggle with it like it's her long lost anaconda friend. but the second that sucker (pun intended) is on she jumps at it, bites it, growls, barks, goes absolutly nutty ..... it's funny ... but im really scared one of these days she gonna hurt herself ( esspecially if she happens to not be in a funcut.) |
| Garfunkel runs into things. He does not watch where that big hairy body is going. He runs along looking over his shoulder to see what Simon is doing and BANG...He ran into a TREE(the ONLY tree in the back), head first a few days after we got him, he has hit me from behind and knocked me to the ground several times, because he always has to be where I am he walks "into" me as I walk along. Simon is one smart cookie, the only thing I can think of is that he HATES when I "start" the lawnmower, he attacks it and bites the wheels. Once its started and moving along he's fine. |
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