Right here goes, as the title says Do you listen to your dogs?

I have a rotten cold and feel like rubbish right now so last night after the dogs have had their last walk, i went downstairs to make some hot sarsaparilla for a nightcap my Rottie came in kitchen looked a me with his big brown doe eyes i said "Hello boy" as i gave him a pat he went and layed by the kitchen door ,its cool their so i thought nothing of it,
i came out calling him to come he really looked like he didnt want to but i (BAD BAD MUMMY :-( ) made him he then sat blocking my path to get to up the stairs, where i just wanted to go back to my bed to feel sorry for my sick self a bit longer, he even sat and put both his paws on me looking like a giant teddy bear
(((heart bleeding now))), i stroked him saying Oh come on boy Mummys not feeling well night night now,
went to bed then, Can YOU guess what OH awoke to this morning :-( ?
you got it POO , MY POOR BIG BOY (no not the OH the DOG)
I FEEL SO AWFUL I sholud have known and i feel a little part of me did it was in my mind last night before i came upstairs "should i just let him out in garden for 5 mins"

but i felt so ill i just wanted to crawl back to bed my poor Zubbi doo,  he did his best to try to tell me and i ignored him poor love, what am i like,

so i wanted to know what has your dogs tryed to tell you that for whatever reason you didnt quite pick up on it,

my female bully will also bark madly (this is not her normal behaviour either) when shes in the back garden and my sons play in the tiny park out back from my house she goes nuts if she hears him screaming or crying, and she goes nuts looking at me like theirs some kind of emergancy going on that i have to be aware of,

so YOUR storys please, :-)

I normally do listen but when I am ill sometimes not, in February I was upstairs and Vic was downstairs barking, barking, barking. I shouted at him to be quiet but he just wouldn't, so quite grumpy I went down to tell him to be quiet in person and when I got there the rug was smouldering. I hadn't shut the log burner door properly and a cinder had got out. He was my hero dog that day :)
Missy the terrier was just lying on the sofa watching it burn merrily away.

Thats interesting....when our kitchen caught light we expected the  dogs to 'talk' to us or shout and holler.
They are both terriers and didn't uttter a sound!

Karen

> you got it POO , MY POOR BIG BOY (no not the OH the DOG)
>

ROFLMAO!!!   :-)  :-)  :-)

Hee Hee its nice to know their good for something isn't it!, oh and now im talking about the OH  :-)

Glad it's not just Missy then! I always thought she would be the one to let me know if things go wrong because Vic normally never makes a sound while she's always grunting, squeaking, barking and moaning. It would be interesting to hear from other terrier owners if their dogs are like this regarding fires, maybe its a terrier thing or maybe our terriers are just laid back PoloAussie

I had a similar situation to yours...only it was 3 am and my wee dog had the scoots. I didn't listen as I thought he only wanted a game. Next thing I heard was Pfffffft and the smell was so bad I woke instantly. After that if jumps on the bed and pokes me I always let him out. We thing was busting to pee this morn and jumped the bed...ran to the door....a few times since I was still in a sleepy haze he seemed to think I wasn't moving fast enough so had to add teeth snapping to hurry me along.:-)

I tend to get the hot fast breathing when they need out ;-) One of mine will sit and stare and me when needing out, not good when I am fast asleep :-)

I now always listen to the dogs, but a few years ago when we just had our Rottie Bo she was whining and whimpering out in the kitchen, I assumed it was because OH had gone out and was making himself a snack. When she started really barking I said to him what are you doing to her?
She came bounding in the door way and back out again, next thing I knew I heard OH going oh oh ok ok, I got up to find him partly in the hallway and kitchen on the floor, with Bo sat beside him. He had passed out and she was trying to tell me, big oooopps, she had been licking him and nibbling his ears to bring him round which worked, what a clever girl!
From that day on any little out of the norm noise from her was investigated, whether that means 3am barking for a wee or telling us someone is outside the house. She loves to let us know she wants something, she'll come in give a low bark and get you to follow her and "show you" want she wants.
Fudge our other dog has learnt well from Bo, although he does not bark to go out yet in the garden, he is slowly picking up most of her good traits, thankfully! :-D

> I had a similar situation to yours...only it was 3 am and my wee dog had the scoots. I didn't listen as I thought he only wanted a game. Next thing I heard was Pfffffft and the smell was so bad I woke instantly.

roflmao....  Definitely not funny at the time but so glad it wasn't me!  Poor wee dog, my dog has done that with vomiting before and always goes behind the door in my bedroom if she is sick at night.  The downside is that when you open the door to get it cleaned up and let the dog out it smears it all over the carpet - yuck yuck yuck.