Fleece sucking/Security blanket
Mopsy has a fleece teddy bear that she uses like a little kid who sucks their thumb and holds a blanket. We replace them fairly often due to the "suck paw" which gets incredibly nasty. She prefers them nasty because when we replace them she has an intense sucking session to get it as gross as possible. She never cares that a bear is replaced with a new one but she never varies from the established "suck paw" which is usually one of the bears arms though on a few occasions it has been a bear leg. Anyway she uses the suck paw to relax so when she is being particularly needy or obnoxious we tell her to suck Teddy. But she also runs to go get him when one of us is on the treadmill or on the computer or some other event and then lays there and sucks on the bear. Especially bedtime. You can tell when she is looking for him. We even got a spare for the basement so she doesn't lose him. Though we sometimes end up with two on the same floor. |
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| Yep, this is more common than you think. How fortunate you can change out the comfort bears! Woe be if your sheepie insisted on the same comfort article. (STINKY)
This will continue for awhile.....a year or two even......and during times of stress there after. It's another endearing feature of some of our sheepies. Be grateful it is something as cute as a teddy bear, it could be a lot worse, LOL sheepieboss |
| Dancer sometimes does this with her favorite blanket, it is fleece as well. I noticed her doing it more during the weekend with all the dog show related activity.... She also kidnaps an old sweatshirt of mine, also fleece, that I happened to be wearing the day I brought her home. |
| Pooh has his "Furby" which is what we named his fleece bear (Furby was Pooh's adopted name for those of you who don't know) but yesterday, he finally started pulling out the filling....ever so gently tho....my wife said she watched him tug some out, turn his head and "spit" it out, turned back, pulled out some more etc.... BUT he still loves this thing. Also, still sleeps on his fleece blanket that we brought him home in.....so cute... |
| Martin has a fetish for noses....I'm sure he thinks that no one in the household should have a better "bendy bit" than him. With each new stuffie we have to make sure that the nose is still on securely during each session of Martinizing. Eyes (stuffed ones) have been known to be marinating in the Martinizer also.
We won't mention all the socks, underwear and dishclothes that have gone missing since we started our pack. We learned early and well to hide the tastiest tidbits. Of course, Martin does that well also. One day I had just come into our bedroom when Martin put his head down very quickly. Now every mom knows that "I'm so innocent" look.  He had stolen one of my daughter's red socks and was trying to make me think it was his tongue sticking out! He was very surprised that mom figured this one out.
Gotta keep on your toes around these guys! |
| LOL Sheepieboss
Mopsy is almost ten years old. You should see the looks people give her nasty bear. Sometimes I threaten my kids with the suck paw (which is perpetually wet) |
Lol. Good threat. The "suck paw" sounds like a fate worse than death!  |
"SUCK PAW"  I'm rolling on the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOOOOO Funny, one of my kids had a "binkie" like that, we would have to wash it while she was sleeping!!!
Tasker steals my socks and stashes them in his bed but he doesn't chew or suck on them. |
| Clyde's a sock stealer too. He just likes to move them. Today I found three of them on the stairs. One on each stair of course. |
| When I was gone last week my husband decided that all of Bailey's toys "smelled like feet" and he threw them, and Bailey's crate blanket, in the wash. I was worried about the backlash to that but Bailey didn't seem to mind at all. Although he still prefers his dad's socks and mom's slippers to just about anything else, so he's obviously OK with the smell of feet! |
| Your husband KNOWS HOW to use the washer???? Amazing. |
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That was my first thought too.... for one, that he knows how to use it, and for two, that it would occur to him to wash things.... |
| I wash the dogs toys once a week, including tennis balls, ropes, etc. They get a fresh blanket in their crates every night, and once a week I throw in a load that is a weeks worth of dog blankets, as well as their toys. It helps prevent doggie smell in the house, and I'd hate for them to get sick from chewing a toy covered with months of dog slobber. |
PANDA, MY SHEEPIE HAS 2 TYPES OF BABIES, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR. HER INDOOR BABIES ARE USED FOR SUCKING ..."PANDA GO GET YOUR BABY..." SHE'LL GET IT OUT OF HER TOY BOX AND LAY DOWN AND START SUCKING ...WHEN I SAY ITS NIGH NIGH TIME SHE GRABS WHITE BABY ONLY AND WILL BRING IT INTO THE BEDROOM AND FALL ASLEEP WITH IT IN HER MOUTH..HER OUTDOOR BABIES ARE MORE WEAR AND TEAR (OLD INDOOR BABIES MOVED OUTDOORS) AND WILL NOT SUCK ON THOSE BUT SHAKE THEM SENSELESS....  |
| Pepsi has a Stuffed Sheep and that is what he goes for when he is stressed. I wouldn't say he sucks on it, but he definitely licks it.
Then he runs around chewing on it. It has a squeaker and the noise seems to make him happy. |
| Luke has always had a teddy bear we call baby. The funny thing is none of the other dogs even touch baby. When Lu is ready to go to bed he finds baby and quietly sucks on it until he falls asleep. I think I bought about 25 of them about 7 years ago so we always have a new one whenever he needs it. |
AWWWWWWWWWw, that is sooooo cute  |
| Willowsprite - I admire your housekeeping skills! I've been switching out the blankets on a weekly basis but I think I'll start doing nightly too because Farley's coat is getting so long and he seems to track so much more stuff in to the house.
Farley has from time to time sucked on the bankie but I don't think he does it nightly. I would've noticed that the blankets were getting ickie quickly. (At least I hope I would've!) |
Nightly washing................... weekly washing................... oh myyyyy. I guess you better turn me in to the sheepie blanket police. Poor Tasker gets his washed when it stinks  |
Tasker's Mom wrote: Nightly washing................... weekly washing................... oh myyyyy. I guess you better turn me in to the sheepie blanket police. Poor Tasker gets his washed when it stinks
No need to feel bad, Tasker's Mom. Ask me how often I change my own sheets... |
| It's not too much of a big deal for me, I have to do at least 2 loads of laundry a day just to keep up around here.... the dog basket only gets thrown in once a week so it doesn't add much. I bought a whole stack of baby blankets (the flannel quilts the hospital uses for babies) at a yard sale, so we have about 20 of those.
As for housekeeping skills.... lol..... I'm not sure I have any. I keep up with things as they happen, but I'm not very good at trying to stick to a routine when it comes to daily stuff. Right now my house is a write off.... I need to dust, sweep, mop, vacuum, get the kids to pick up toys in the yard, the cat keeps running through an area where we keep DVD's and scatters them all over the floor every day.... the kids have chores too, but gettting them to do them is not always easy. My daughter is great about it, because she has discovered the joy of shopping .... My boys though.... they'd rather go to the dentist than spend 5 minutes straightening up the shoes in the front porch, or take out the garbage. |
The saying "work expands to fill the time allowed" is really true!!!! Back in the day when I had 5 kids at home, worked full time AND went to school I got all sorts of things done and I quilted and sewed and planted a garden. Now my kids are grown and gone and there are only two of us and I'm lucky to get my own laundry done!! Maybe I'm getting slower not older........  |
I have a local company called Home Maid come in every other Thursday and clean the whole house. We do stuff "as needed" in between. I used to be kinda  about using a cleaning service but what the heck! Both of us work full time - that's our justification!! Besides, on cleaning day, Truman gets to go to the Doggie Playground all day and he loves that! |
| Embarrassed! I would LOVE to have a maid service come in! |
| Sofa adopted a rubber chicken as her beloved pup a while ago... here's the full thread |
Hi - Our bulldog Franklin has been sucking on stuffed animals for as long as I can remember. He is four years old now, and when he is ready to go to bed he always gets his little teddy bear or stuffed bulldog, and sucks like he is nursing until he falls asleep. I was them as much as possible, but they are still gross, and I am afraid if I throw them away he would be really sad... What is going on with this behavior - it makes me actually feel bad sometimes, like we took him from his mother and litter too soon...  |
| Panda just turned 2 and she has 2 babies that she takes turns sucking on before she goes to sleep...there are pictures under my camera...I think its the sweetest thing... |
| Annie does this too. She has many plush babies. There's a basket of them and plenty strewn around the house. I don't think she has a favorite as she goes for whichever one is available at the time she is excited. She gets a baby when we come home, when it's playtime, when someone is outside on the sidewalk, when we tell her to, etc... Of course, she doesn't put them back in the basket when she's done.
I was really good about washing them and now I'm lazy. Thanks for the reminder though. I wonder if that's what Annie is telling me when she starts to go to the bottom of the basket. "Hey, Mom, the others laying around are dirty!" |
| Bunkie has her bears. Forget sucking on then she is more into pulling the stuffing out of them and scattering it all over the house. Half the time it looks like its snoed in the house. She then shakes the crap out of them and leaves them wherever. |
casearoo wrote: Bunkie has her bears. Forget sucking on then she is more into pulling the stuffing out of them and scattering it all over the house. Half the time it looks like its snoed in the house. She then shakes the crap out of them and leaves them wherever.
Sky pulls out the stuffing, eats it, and poops it out later. |
| HEHEHE. Thats too funny. |
| einy had sheep but he is still on the roof (don't ask)
but he does have a black bear that i brought him the first day we had him but now 8 months later it just a bear skin having been destuffed some time ago zoe |
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