CRAZY LEGS!
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| Yep..........MO does that too. She banks off the couch in the livingroom and our bed at the far end of the house. It's play time! If I join in (and careful not to get runover) she play-growls as she passes me, but it doesn't slow her down. |
Thank goodness! My husband, black lab & I thought we were the only pins in the alley!  |
It's called a FRAP - frequent random activity period. I don't remember where we got this term, but when Kayli was a puppy she'd do this and we'd shout out "FRAP" so all could hear and get the heck out of the way. I climbed on the couch once but as it turned out, the couch was part of the course and I still got mowed over. 
J |
| So I thought this was just a puppy thing!! Max has been doing this almost since we got him, he's now almost 14 weeks and dashes through the house at least a couple times a day. He always has to circle something, whether it be a chair or the kitchen table! I have an autistic nephew, and he just got the biggest kick out of Max when he did this on Easter, he couldn't stop laughing and called it a "doggy stampede" |
| My Rosco does that, I always thought he learned it from the cat. I also thought it would stop when he got older but he's 6.5 and as nuts as ever |
| LOL, Jil! FRAP! I love that term!!
Drez used to do this right after a bath. We'd just yell - nutso dog on the loose! - to get everyone out of her way. Would love to see her do that again, but alas - not with her hips now. 
Chris |
| We call it the mad dog run....lol.... and the cats do it too. |
| I think I picked up the term here on the forum, but I'm not sure... we call it the Sheepie 500! |
| We always call it the "butt tuck" run.....LOL They tuck under and take off....like someone lit a fire under their stub. Annie does it lots more than Jack does. The cats also like going crazy, but mostly at 3am across the pillows.
Stormi and co. |
| LOL!!! Sasha has picked it up too!! My mom has two pom-poo's,we thought it was a small dog thing until Sasha picked it up....great for lots of giggles!!! |
| Yup, us too. Clyde starts at the top of the stairs and comes down like a rocket and runs the length of the house at top speed. Wacky! |
| Sam does this too, especially after her bath. She also goes nuts when my son is getting ready for school. Then she runs around with his school shoes, gym shoes, cleats, flip flops, sandals...anything to "help"! |
| Burcwen is lazy and slothful like me, but my old oes Bailey would often, quite suddenly, launch a frap. Her unique addition was to pause every now and then and jump straight up and down a few times, as if she had discovered an imaginary trampolene, then right back into the frap! she was a great sheepdog. |
| Roger loves to play like this ocassionally also, it's very funny. Just be sure you are walking him 1 + miles 2 times per day in addition. This behaviour from an unexcercised dog can mean I need to burn some energy. From a well excercised dog it just means come on lets play. |
| This happens at our house too. Carl gives a warning look though. He scrunches down like he's in the chute, ready to race and we yell, "Go Carl, Go." and he takes off. Through the living room, the kitchen, the dining room, sometimes up over the couch, sometimes jumps the footstool, runs into the husband, (Who never learns to get out of the way!). The whole time this is going on, Norman barks like there is no tomorrow, we think he's doing commentary. |
| I always called it "Tasker's power surge" at 8 years old he's still havin' em!!! |
| My dawg Coulee does this too. Has since we got her and she is almost 7 months now. I almost pee myself everytime she does it. Does anybody know WHY they do it? Is it like their extreme height of excitment levels or what?
PS- the more and horder i laugh the more she does it. |
| Pirate and Keira don't do it, but our old Jack Russell Terrorist, mean ol' Molly, used to. We used to call it a "Jack Attack"! |
Why? That is the question. MO gets plenty of exercise outside. Maybe it is being a sheepdog and reacting to stimulus. Actually Sam used to do this.......granted for not as long as a flying 115 Pyr over the furniture is nothing something I could tolerate. Glacier has her moments but never for very long........it's like they just need to cut loose every once in awhile. I suspect with puppies and young adults the need is greater, but MO as 8 (  ) can still go nuts.
I enjoy it and am grateful I don't have fine china or crystal. |
| Count me in My 12 week old Bowie runs through the house at least once a day...like a madman, around the tables and chairs, up the hall into the bathroom and back again...a few times...then just plops down exhausted! I usually give the warning to the family, "Watch Out, Mad Dog" and he's off and running!!!!
I would make one caution though...first if your's is a puppy, be sure to walk him soon after the "mad dash" or you may have a pee pee accident on the floor....AND if he is "dragging his behind" along the floor, check his anal glands. They may need expelling |
| Dutch preforms twice a day for us , running back and forth , around and around and every once in awhile she throws in a cute little bunny hop |
| Finally there is a name for it I have 3 frappers at home |
| When Fred does this I usually tell him, "Stop dragracing around my house." Although we have carpeting in most places in the house right now this guy still manages to get up enough speed to slide on his rear. (Ouch)
FRAP sounds a lot funnier though. From now on I am going to yell out, "Oh FRAP." |
| Even bassets do it. It's known as the Basset 500! |
| Abby does the same thing and the lab looks at her as if your nuts and clings close to a wall till she is done. 4 or 5 laps and bankshots of the sofa and shes done then its nap time |
| My boyfriend calls them the night terrors! ahaha |
| I thought Chauncey had Sundowner's Syndrome when he was younger. His burst are always in the evenings. We've called it the sheepie 500, but I like FRAP better. |
I guess that means Harley is normal (for a sheepdog ...LOL..) 
He does it every night without fail! The best was when he was going so fast he JUMPED up and ended up on the pool table. I just about split a gut laughing.
The expression on his face was priceless............. Antoinette |
| Ok I have to add my two cents worth. Simon used to do it in the house but now thank goodness he does it outside. We have a large fenced in yard and at one end it has a tree. We call the tree a pylon. Simon races down the yard and around the pylon and back again and again. Around here its called the 9:00 witching hour. Almost every nite at 9:00 he went off. |
| Phoebe does that too and she's 2 yrs old then has three more dogs following her. Everyone just get's out of the way |
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