do your dogs do this?
if there is something floating in his water he barks at the bowl untill you change the water (you can't just fish it out he knows!!!) 
and if his food bowl is empty and he thinks its diner time he lays infront of it and barks till you fill it another thing how do you get your sheepie to stop taking thing off the kitchen counters? i can't take his toys away coz he just gets them back off of the counters or steals the babys pacifiers if he can't reach his toys i have to keep them in the cupboard  |
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LOL... sounds like a typical oes as far as the counter surfing goes...  |
| Yep....I almost lost my dinner to Genevieve last night while I was turned around to the fridge, she tried to get my sandwich off the counter. Fortunately I turned back around in time to thwart her plans! |
| We started out with stainless steel bowls and Bailey would bark at the dog that lived in the bottom of his water bowl Now he has a ceramic bowl and he's much happier. He never minded stuff floating in the bowl, though.
I would recommend that you keep his toys/bones in a closet and off the counters. First, you don't want him thinking that everything on the counter is his. Second, if he can get his toys whenever he wants, then he'll believe he's the alpha. We keep Bailey's stuff either in the pantry or the closet in my office, and whenever we go near either of those doors he sits very pretty hoping we'll give him a favorite toy or treat. |
| Mallory would have a hay day playing in the water bowl if there was something floating in it.
She must capture anything out of the norm in her water. But then she is a water baby and seeks puddles, bowls, pools and ponds out. Anything that holds water she must investigate and blow bubbles in! She is a riot. As far as the counter surfing, she hasn't attempted that but then again, she is still rather short. When she grows up a bit I will let you know. My first OES, Trouble was a counter surfer. In fact her favorite treat was a slice of white bread. I came home from work many days to find a plastic bread bag laying on the floor but no bread in sight. So I got the bright idea to put the bread up on top of the fridge. LOL Came home from work the next day and the crazy dog had hopped up on the counter and got it down anyway.  From then on the bread went into the fridge.  |
| Too funny, we use to play bobbing for hotdogs...so they like floating things. They also like to counter surf, but don't do it often.
I don't have dogs crazy for toys...they like toys that given them food. |
| My two dont bark at the water bowl, but Smeagol will empty the bird bath with his front paws and nose, as if he is digging a hole. |
| My oes has demolished at least four loaves of bread now. Anything paper keep out of his reach being last week was a roll of toilet paper, this week a roll of paper towels. If the bowls are empty the water bowl gets put on top of the food dish or the food dish gets moved around the kitchen until I fill it. Definitely let you know what you need. |
| I think paper products are like candy to OES. |
| What is it with these guys? Jack is tall so the entire counter is his. I lost my lunch, eggplant, to him last week. Since this guy will eat poop, eggplant is high dining. To keep him from scuba diving in the water bowls, we had to elevate them. Fortunately he's so fumble footed, he can't figure our how to get his feet up and into the bowls. Thankfully he was past the toy stage by the time he got here. He is way to possessive and toys would have been awful. The one toy I gave him was a mistake. After growls and a snap, he lost all privleges for toys and bones.
As for other, milder mannered dogs, we put them into a locking plastic container when play time was over. A few sniffs, but none ever tried to open the container. |
| Pogo doesn't counter surf...his nose is equal height to the counter, but he does bite a hunk out of the toilet paper roll that is hanging. Can't figure that one out? Anybody else have this problem? |
| How funny, Max also loves to take a good hunk out of the toilet paper rolls if he can get to them!! I try to always keep the doors to the bedrooms and bathrooms shut so there is less trouble for him to get into I also don't have any trouble, so far, with counter surfing because there is absolutely nothing for Max on the counter, I've always been a bit of a organizational freak and that really helps me now that we have a sheepie under our roof!!! |
Quote: We started out with stainless steel bowls and Bailey would bark at the dog that lived in the bottom of his water bowl
OMG...that's so funny!
Gooch will drink the water, no matter what....especially if it isn't in a bowl, you know like a muddy puddle on the dirt road or something!  I am learning that Murph doesn't get much water down his throat, but lots on the floor, carpet, etc!
No counter surfing here!  YET! |
| einstein loves toilet paper too and coat hangers its silly he munched 4 in total yesterday i just don't know where he finds them
he will grab hold of the toilet paper and try to take it from the bathroom thats only when hes not drinking out the toilet (he really can be gross) hes getting better now but it really does love the tubes out of the toilet paper but that didn't stop him taking a whole rool of kitchen towel outside in the garden and ripping it up for the whole town to see and he has to lift his head up to get his nose to the counters if he smells it and he wants it the paws go up on the counter and its good bye what ever it was |
personss wrote: How funny, Max also loves to take a good hunk out of the toilet paper rolls if he can get to them!! I try to always keep the doors to the bedrooms and bathrooms shut so there is less trouble for him to get into
I also don't have any trouble, so far, with counter surfing because there is absolutely nothing for Max on the counter, I've always been a bit of a organizational freak and that really helps me now that we have a sheepie under our roof!!!You and I must have attended the same school of Compulsive Behavior, personss! All bathroom and bedroom doors are shut all the time. I haven't had any counter surfing either because there isn't anything on the counter that smells tasty - thank goodness for the pantry, which is where I hide everything. I'm so compulsive that I even put my toaster away in the pantry, since we only use it on weekends. The only thing Bailey tries to get into is the dishwasher - when I'm cleaning the kitchen he'll lick the dishes to see what was on the menu in the people world. But the only reason I can get away with keeping my surfaces cleared off is because I have no full-time kids, and my part-time kids are teenagers with a counter surfing, toilet drinking dog of their own so they came pre-trained! |
| Sheepieboss.......Are you still eating that eggplant????? What else have you done with it???? LOL |
| Apparently she's feeding it to the dogs! |
Bailey's Mom wrote: We started out with stainless steel bowls and Bailey would bark at the dog that lived in the bottom of his water bowl
AJ barks at stainless steel bowls too. |
| Sounds like you guys have it easy.
We have three sheepies, two of which just turned 6 months old. Thankfully mamadog (Shayleigh) is well behaved. The youngsters, however, are another matter entirely. Nothing is truly safe. Nothing. Our home has gone to the dogs. Counter surfing? Absolutely. Yesterday's delight was a Tupperware container full of grits (uncooked). The container got demolished and the grits consumed. Wouldn't have thought of dry grits as a sheepdog snack. Another favorite off the counter is butter. I can't count the number of empty and destroyed butter containers I have discovered about the house. Beyond counter surfing: Patch, the female puppy, has a nasty habit of climbing up on the dining room table. Once there anything goes: napkins, tablemats, salt and pepper, butter (if left there), anything. We're not talking a simple surfing job - she gets all four paws up there and enjoys the view. Shoes. My wife is finally learning to put her shoes away in her closet and close the door. A bit of strife here but our bedroom is a bit tidier. Cost her a couple of shoes, though. She lost a leather sandle yesterday. Our son Wallace lost a sandle on Saturday. And the beat goes on . . . Newspaper. Free access to the newspaper recycle bin is an invitation to a party. Both pups will pull out papers and begin to shred them unmercifully. Quincy (the boy) is especially ruthless. It's their chair now. The chair that used to be my antique carved wood reading chair is now a sheepie chair. The wood carving on the arms has been chewed beyond recognition. The fabric of the chair has been torn in multiple places and the stuffing pulled out. I'm scared to throw the chair out for fear the pups will 'claim' another chair as their own.
Clothes. We have all learned to be much more diligent about putting clean clothes away promptly and getting the dirty clothes in the hamper. The defining moment was when Patch came downstairs to greet guests with a pair of my underwear in her mouth. They were irresistable to her as I had been out in the yard before cleaning up for the guests. Flowers. "Patch! Get off the table! Those flowers are for smelling, not eating!" Uggh. I must say, however, that the pups do come by their antics honestly and that we do expect them to grow out of these misadventures. Shayleigh, their mild-mannered and well-behaved mother, once ate the bottom tread of our staircase. She also had a fondness for bathroom trashcans. Give us strength, Lord. |
| reading through your post reminded me of all the thing that einstein has eatten
he too has taken a liking to butter i found the tub in the garden he gets up on the table to we have to make sure all the chairs are pushed in and our dinning room table and chairs sit on a rug on a tiled floor. well hes take to pulling the rug so that the table starts to move round in a circle and to top it all off i had accidentally left the lid of the dog treat tub and walked in the kitchen only to find him dragging a chair in the direction of the tub. one can only guess what he had in mind zoe |
| Einstein sound a pretty smart dog to me, he must be living up to his name
Chris Frodo and Smeagol. |
| Mine do the dishwasher thing too! It's always to the chorus of NO DISHWASHER FOOD!!!!! They don't listen... |
| John and Kathy... we haven't heard an update on Shayleigh's pups in a long time! It sounds like you have your hands full! I can't imagine having 2 the same age, 2 six months apart was handful enough! LOL |
You might just as well try to stop the sun from rising as try to stop a sheepie from counter surfing!!!!  |
When it was dinner time for bobby he would pick his bowl up in his mouth and throw it up into the air and if that didnt work he would brind it over and place it on my lap  . I do miss him so much .  |
| Rufie has a habit of knocking his food bowl over. Not all the time, but pretty frequently. He paws or nudges it over with his nose. THEN, he proceeds to nudge most of the spilled food into a pile. Only then will he start to eat it. Cracks us up each time! |
| They are the things you remember when your missing them after they are gone . Bobby used to do the same it was so funny they are such characters . If i was ever upset he would put his head on my lap and just look up at me it would make me feel a lot better . Another thing he used to do was let the cat and our min yorkie sit on his back and sleep with him. He went everywhere with me he was my best friend . |
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