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I swear that my dog can read my mind...
 Yes, this guy! Following up on Glen's great thread....One happy dog....who can resist another dog thread? My 4 year old Vizsla, Bodi, has large, floppy ears and so he needs them cleaned at least once a month...more often in the summer, if he has been swimming a lot....and he HATES it! When the time comes, I don't even have to say a word or make a move......HE KNOWS IT'S COMING! He'll take off and try to hide in my son's room and it's pretty much impossible to entice him out!  What an ordeal!  Alex
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It is astonishing how well our dogs read the signs of what we are doing or planning on doing. They know the routine. If they see my wife put on her shoes they go to full alert. With the next few movements they can figure out if it is time for a walk or time for them to get locked up in the laundry room. They have a doggie door to get to the back yard and the run to the gate of the laundry room and wait for a treat if we are leaving.
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will admit to spelling around them at times..
I can read them pretty well... but they have us figured out.. Rika |
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He's a beauty.
Widgeon just read your post and she went and hid as well. She'll be out for dinner though. 
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If you have not read Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz then reading it will help you understand how a dog sees, smells and knows. My daughter bought it for me. It reminds me of Racing in the Rain. My dog passed on two years ago and wish I had this book then.
This book would make a great gift to yourself or to somebody else in the PPOT Gift Exchange. Guy. |
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Yup. If a bag is being packed with clothes, she knows I'm leaving. Doesn't matter if I pack the night before or not, she's not letting me out that door before her. She knows, and if I don't tell her she's going too, she gets upset, but if I do, she's cool.
If we go camping for the weekend, she's the first one to load up when packing to leave or return. She will not get out of the car so it can be loaded without her in it. Makes it difficult sometimes to load up.
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It's miserable for me during deer season...when they hear my boots on the tile...they are out of the kid's beds in a flash! Breaks my heart when I can't take them.
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their beautiful..
IIRC..you had a dog.. you swore.. if he had thumbs.. he could have played cards in camp.. Rika |
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Yep...my GSP Dart...smart as a whip, but REAAALLLLYYYY hard headed. No where near as malleable as the V hounds.
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Just gave my 2 girls a nice brushing.....they know what love is......
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It reminds me of years ago when my cat was still alive, she would start choking and frothing at the mouth when I reached for a bottle of antibiotics when had to give them to her. What a PIA. But with a cat, you would know any actual reaction from them had something to do with them and not you. Not trying to hijack of course.
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Dogs are from Mars.
Cats are from Venus.
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What are their names? How is the temperment with these two? Alex
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Not too surprising though, they have been bred for this sort of thing since we were living in caves and trying to work out how to make fire.
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When out hunting, I feel a deep connection to my dogs. Some of it may be explained with my body language and where I look, and some of it with me reading their body language, but some of it is just at a subconscious level. A deep straight connection deep inside them and me. 100,000 years of us doing our thing. All it is all there in the field getting revived in a split second.
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My first dog - a lab rescue - got in a snit if we didnt give him wrapped christmas gifts. Not just a gift, they had to be wrapped. He unwrapped them of course.
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They have learned to trust me if I tell them to head this way and start off on a tangent. By the same token, I trust them when they get "birdy" ...it's almost subliminal...a quickening tail, a rapid head snap as they catch scent... there is so much pleasure in just watching them do what they've been bred for thru generations. Damn...now I need to go to one of the canned pheasant clubs!
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This is not my dog but it is pretty funny.
He has a lime to play with.
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They certainly do pick up on 'clues'- body language, repetition of your actions, etc.
Some years back I kept our boat inside our two car garage - the trailer tongue was just long enough I had to push the unit at an angle to be able to close the garage door. I could go out, open that garage door and work all day on some misc. tasks, and Spud would lay there and watch. But on the day we were going to the lake, as soon a I touched that tongue and swung it over to straight... he would run outside, stand next to the drivers door on my truck and ...BARK! BARK! BARK! Even though we would may not be ready to leave for another hour, I would have to go open the drivers door and let him up into the cab - where he would sit ...and wait. Did I mention he liked the lake?
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2006 Porsche 997 C4S Coupe
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Lexus RX350
2005 Ferrari F-430
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1976 Porsche 911
1964 Porsche 356 C Sunroof coupe
1972 Porsche 914 2.0 fuel injected
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