You and your dog.

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Sn1p3r187 on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 and has 17 replies.

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Me and my dog. Spark, he so awesome. Always been there for me since day 1. Originally he was my brother's dog, but he always had a preference to me though since I play with him everyday and take him to walk around the park. He's a great dog. Gave him his middle name after a great dog from the Fallout series yep Dogmeat. He's a Virgo dog and he's 2. That might explain why he never barks at all except when you get rough at him, other than that he never barks at all. My true best friend.

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Aw you two look adorbz 🙂

I wanted a husky or a german shepard and somehow I ended up with a poodle. Now I don't regret it, he's a crazy Gem. Hyper, talk/barkative, intelligent. People love him. His short attention span can piss me off but than I remember than I'm not much better myself and we're friends again. 😛

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He's really obedient. Most from what I taught him. The only issue I really need to work on with him is him jumping all over people and him humping legs. He don't bite he just uses his paws to hang onto people when he's excited.

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Posted by Sn1p3r187
He's really obedient. Most from what I taught him. The only issue I really need to work on with him is him jumping all over people and him humping legs. He don't bite he just uses his paws to hang onto people when he's excited.

Apparently dogs do that to new people and animals to establish dominance rght off the bat. Mine does the whole humping thing as well (all of them do really), more to other male dogs than to people though. If he does it to you and you don't teach him not to he'll grow to believe that he can get his way with you or something. Higher rank in the pack.

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He's really obedient. Most from what I taught him. The only issue I really need to work on with him is him jumping all over people and him humping legs. He don't bite he just uses his paws to hang onto people when he's excited.

Apparently dogs do that to new people and animals to establish dominance rght off the bat. Mine does the whole humping thing as well (all of them do really), more to other male dogs than to people though. If he does it to you and you don't teach him not to he'll grow to believe that he can get his way with you or something. Higher rank in the pack.

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I remember that my old dog Zulu used to do that. Though she was a female. Why would female dogs do that? She's dead now but I just wondered that for a second.

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He's really obedient. Most from what I taught him. The only issue I really need to work on with him is him jumping all over people and him humping legs. He don't bite he just uses his paws to hang onto people when he's excited.

Apparently dogs do that to new people and animals to establish dominance rght off the bat. Mine does the whole humping thing as well (all of them do really), more to other male dogs than to people though. If he does it to you and you don't teach him not to he'll grow to believe that he can get his way with you or something. Higher rank in the pack.

I remember that my old dog Zulu used to do that. Though she was a female. Why would female dogs do that? She's dead now but I just wondered that for a second.

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I don't know. Never bothered to ask since I never had a female dog. Could very well also be a dominance thing though.

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Dobermans and Rotweilers scare me. Almost more than Pits. Though I always like Pits since I've grown up with Pits and there very nice if you train em right.

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Posted by Sn1p3r187

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He's really obedient. Most from what I taught him. The only issue I really need to work on with him is him jumping all over people and him humping legs. He don't bite he just uses his paws to hang onto people when he's excited.

Apparently dogs do that to new people and animals to establish dominance rght off the bat. Mine does the whole humping thing as well (all of them do really), more to other male dogs than to people though. If he does it to you and you don't teach him not to he'll grow to believe that he can get his way with you or something. Higher rank in the pack.

I remember that my old dog Zulu used to do that. Though she was a female. Why would female dogs do that? She's dead now but I just wondered that for a second.

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We had a female who did it, too. Yes, it's just a dominance thing. Sometimes it's even just because they're excited...not sexually excited but that energy sort of transfers over.

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I have a roommate as a pet, but she definitely barks like a pinscher for petty things only. I think she has a Virgo stellium.