What are your Sheltie's funny quirks?

[Mignarda]

Dickens will come into the room, stand in one place, and stare, with his tail straight down and motionless, his mouth closed, and a perfectly blank expression on his face.

 

[sable]

Lil' Lady thinks she is a boxer??? Takes her mouth and wipes off on the furniture. Get a shower and hang the towel up, she wipes her body
off on the towel. Never seen a dog that loves flowers like she does. She sniffs then lays under the hanging pots.

There is a baby bunny that visits on the patio, she ignores the bunny and turns her back to it, when the bunny arrives, she lays down.

We sit down to dinner and I might give her some green beans for her treat. When we are finished and I say so, she grumbles and goes
and eats her food. GOOD!!! Lil' Lady is very demanding, I want you down stairs and now. Just because someone called hang up.

Loves to lay on my husband's feet. When Lucky was here with us, he had to stay away from the feet they are hers. She melts my heart
when she wants something its the sheltie smile with the tongue hanging out. She is a riot and we love her. We miss Lucky he
thought she was nuts at times (LOL) but really did train her in so many ways. All good stuff.

 

[Margi]

Dickens will come into the room, stand in one place, and stare, with his tail straight down and motionless, his mouth closed, and a perfectly blank expression on his face.

ok that's different...how long does he do this? Like in a trance?

 

[tesslynn]

Dickens will come into the room, stand in one place, and stare, with his tail straight down and motionless, his mouth closed, and a perfectly blank expression on his face.

awaiting the "beam me up moment"? Or is it statue practice 101?

 

[Caro]

Tully likes to chat. She talks to everyone she meets - kind a trill, then little whimper/chirping sounds. When the cats meow she answers them back with her trill. The weirdest thing is her fear of drains. She won't walk over a drain, which can be risky - because she sometimes ends up on the road if I forget to avoid one when we're walking. It's a fear she developed in adolescence and no amount of training has gotten her over it.

Deska is just a great big clown and is always doing silly things. He loves sticks and often we walk together with me holding the other end of the stick he has in his mouth. He likes to sing along with swing music and didgeridoos, and he likes to make his own music with his fave squeak toy. And when he's feeling silly he just loves to run around me in circles, with the occasional ankle nip to make sure his sheep doesn't move.

 

[Sharon7]

Fillion has a stretching routine he does almost every time that cracks me up. He stretches down into the play bow, then comes up, taps his right front foot three times, then finishes off with an arabesque with his left rear leg. Never changes feet or changes the count!

Koko wants to "walk the line". If we are on a street with painted lines marking the right side he is on it. I didn't realize at first he was following the line till I pulled him closer as a car was coming past us. Then he went right back on the line. On our side streets the county (in lieu of actually fixing the road!) fills the cracks with tar. This leads to some funny visuals because the tar lines are squiggly and he looks silly walking those lines! The down side is I get an ear worm of Johnny Cash singing I Walk the Line every time he does this

Oh my. Both of these are cute, and the "walk the line" reminded me of another of Brooke's quirks - she has to walk on the FAR LEFT whenever she's off leash. The creek we walk along every day is lined with concrete on the side we're on (it empties into the ocean), and she has to walk on the concrete edge. She will NOT move over for joggers or other peds, either, they must go around her while she keeps her line!!! We call her "Lefty" sometimes.

These are all great stories, I've really enjoyed reading about everyone's dogs.

 

[corbinam]

Some of the things I thought were unique to my dogs, must be sheltie traits! Lexi also rubs off on the furniture after baths, and we've found that after a dip in the pool that if you lay a towel out on the ground, she'll dry herself off!

The weirdest thing she does is when we go to put her collar on. She always gently puts it in her mouth to "test" it, then lets go and we put it on her. Like she's testing if it's real gold! haha.

 

[Mignarda]

ok that's different...how long does he do this? Like in a trance?

Very much as if he's in a trance, only he's looking at you; looking right through you, to be precise. Generally he'll remain that way until he gets some kind of response, or until he thinks he's not going to get a response. It's really odd. I've never had a dog do that before.

 

[Mignarda]

awaiting the "beam me up moment"? Or is it statue practice 101?

Statue practice, one would think!

 

[RikyR]

Zulu puts his toys on the window sill. Sometimes he puts them on the fireplace hearth. I wish he would put them back in his toy box!