ICE, ICE AND MORE ICE
#1 - LOVES ice cubes. Drives you absolutely crazy barking, crying and jumping on you and wrapping her body around you and cradleing her head in your neck until you give in and get her some ice. She does this all night until we go to sleep. She chews around 10 to 20 pieces of ice a night! She is obsessed with ice! Is this normal? Is it okay to keep giving it to her? I have been working on breaking her of this habit for the past 2 nights whenever she goes to the freezer I tell her all gone and put her outside for a few minutes. Seems to be working somewhat BUT if she hears the freezer being opened, she runs like a crazy manic to get to it! #2 - She is always getting down and smashing her head into the floor or bed to get her backend up in the air and she will just stay like that until you start patting her butt. It is her favorite pose! |
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| Yep, #1 and #2 sounds pretty much right on.
My parents' sheepie, Maggie, LOVES ice but she recently developed an intolerance for it--she pukes it back up, so we have to only give it to her sparingly now--but she still runs from any part of the house (could be dead asleep) when she hears the ice machine going... Again, Maggie, would back into us, like walk backwards, so that her bum was in scratching distance. It was very annoying, as we would rather have had the 'good' end bumping into us! It always got worse at times when my boyfriend at the time would come over because he thought it was funny and would scratch her butt and she would always come backing into us, but then he would leave and we would be stuck with the back up dog! (We wanted to install those BEEP BEEP BEEP things big trucks have when they back up...) |
LOL Sounds perfectly normal to me!  |
| I am working with Bosley on "Come" and "Bring it Here", and need him to com eup close, instead of doing the "come and run". We started with treats, but I don't know how it happened but his reward now is that he gets to come right up close to me, squeezes himself between my legs (I am 5 foot 9 inches) and I reach down and scratch his butt. He will just stand there forever.
It works well, though, because it is very easy to get his car-belt on in this position. Plus I can groom his backend this way and he hardly notices. 
Yup, they sure love their butts scratched...on both sides of the tail, of cource.. |
| Sheepies are so great for a good giggle, It is so awsome to read about one sheepies little 'quirks' and then to read how sooo many others sheepies are doing the same. We gave Sahsa ice in the summer time and now everytime she hears the tray cracking she will come bolting in. Ice and carrots, she thinks a carrot is just the best thing you could ever get as a treat! |
Love the sheepie quirks! They are hysterical. Wanting both ice and a good butt rub sound normal to me!  |
Quote: Ice and carrots, she thinks a carrot is just the best thing you could ever get as a treat!
Whenever I put ice cubes in the water dish Bosley picks them all out and carries them off to eat them. What a mess! And carrots? Please...raw, cooked, small, large...they are gobbled up. |
| LOL 100% Sheepie quirks right there! |
| You stole our daily ritual!
Nelson jumps in the recliner with my husband after breakfast every morning and begs for his butt to be scratched. A real Kodak moment seeing the two of them sharing "quality time", checking out world events on CNN. Every night they share a glass of iced tea. Nelson always begs for ice cubes and has knocked a few glasses over to drive his point home. Maggie did the same thing in her younger days. Now she's a bit less aggressive but still craves the butt-scratching and the ice cubes. |
| Yep, Jasper does them both too. I swear it won't be much longer before he figures out how the ice maker works with the way he eyes it...hehe |
| Yep... Baylee loves ice also. I put it in her water bowl, she knocks it out with her paw and makes a big puddle on the kitchen floor. She's still mystified by it because I only give it to her occassionally. |
| Sounds like you have a TRUE SHEEPIE...thru and thru!!!!
Does she hop her butt up if you don't scratch it right away? The Gooch can almost turn into a pretzle trying to SEE if you will rub his butt!  |
Maggie McGee IV wrote: Every night they share a glass of iced tea. Nelson always begs for ice cubes and has knocked a few glasses over to drive his point home.
When we brought Sasha home I spilled my coffee on the floor, and ever since then Sasha has a horrible addiction to coffee...any cup left on the table is bound to be slurped up by her. |
| Daisy loves ice cubes also. I started giving them to her in the summer after our walks and she loved it. I also add them to her water but now that it's cooler (not what I consider really cold here after being in the north), she doesn't go for them as much. I'm sure when it warms up again she'll be begging for them again. |
| Yes to both 1 and 2! Bailey will back up to you and if he doesn't get your attention that way he will lean up against you until he's sitting in your lap. And once he has your attention, he'll just lean there forever while you rub his butt, happy sheepie! |
| Muffy, the sheepdog I had growing up, loved ice cubes. We ended up putting two bowls out for her in the family room - the original one with water and then the additional one for cubes. Eventually the one with the water was put away since she only ate ice. So her bowl was filled with ice several times a day. Everyone who came over to the house was amazed at the sheepdog laying over her bowl crunching ice cubes. They had never seen anything like it. The funniest part was sometimes she would lift her head out of the bowl and there would be a bunch of cubes stuck to her beard. She would toss her head and attempt, sometimes successfully, to grab the cubes off her beard.
Thanks for bringing back some fun Sheepie memories! |
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