<p>My golden doodle lets me know when he wants his metal water bowl filled. He knocks it over and looks at me expectantly. If I don’t get up fast enough for his taste, he does it again, a little louder. If I try to ignore him further, he gets more and more violent, knocking it all around the room. He never barks, just keeps at it with increasing fervor. I tend to get annoyed and scold him even as I get the water. No guilt whatsoever displayed on his part. :)</p>
<p>Performer, she is half amstaff, half APBT as far as the rescuers could tell. She’s a blue pit. Gorgeous dog but no one wanted her because she was the runt and scarred up :(.</p>
<p>AAAWWWW, romani.
Love the blues!!
Mine is a chinese sharpei, a self-colored (100%) apricot, or “gold” or “light red”. Her tongue is lavender. She has matching amber eyes, very rare and incorrect for the American standard, but very good luck in China.</p>
<p>We have two little Cavalier King Charles spaniels. One always acts guilty. She slinks around, hides behind things, goes to her safe spots…even when she hasn’t done anything. She acts like an abused dog, which is ridiculous because she is a spoiled rotten princess, and always has been.</p>
<p>The other one, well, a different story. When we’re gone, she’ll root around the house for any possible crumb of food. Knock garbage cans over, open zippers on our suitcases, even open jars of nuts. We call her the honey badger. When we catch her in the act, she has no shame. She’ll look at us belligerently, roll over on her back, and I know if she could talk she’d say, “What’s your problem? Rub my belly!” She is so rude.</p>
<p>Both our dogs are adopted…both goldens. (I do want a King Charles as an add on). The night after we adopted our female she did something wrong. (She started to pee in the house. I saw it and said NO! She stopped immediately (mid stream) and cowered. I gently took her outside let her finish and kept saying Good Girl!!! Then she got a treat. (So did the boy). She learned that no meant, please stop. Never would it mean (again) something worse.</p>
<p>My border collie was too smart to look guilty. You coould take a chewed up shoe and Put it under her nose, and she would look right at you and deny deny deny.</p>
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<p>Ugh, my pet peeve (literally). It’s so stupid. I cannot for the life of me understand why people yell at a dog for doing precisely what they want it to do. It’s tantamount to saying “come here, Rex. And when you do, boy will you get in trouble”. I saw a teenager on the street once who kept calling his dog who had got off the leash, and the dog just skulked around. Finally the dog slinked over to the kid, who then proceeded to beat him, yelling “I told you to come”. And they say people are smarter than dogs. It’s a good thing they’d gone by the time I’d gone downstairs and out the door, because the kid would not have liked what I had to say.</p>
<p>I’ve haven’t had to “train” my dog. She’s a collie, so basically I just explain to her what I want, then she does it, and I thank her. Working breeds are great.</p>
<p>I have a Cavalier King Charles, too. He would weigh 100 pounds if he could feed himself!! Not the brightest dog, but the sweetest. Such a different personality from my Cairn terrier - who is very bright, bossy, stubborn and rules the house!</p>
<p>My last dog was an American Eskimo. super smart. He knew if I was wearing heels he was staying home.<br>
Whenever I put on sneakers or flats he got excited because that upped the odds that he was coming with me.<br>
New dog is a chi pug ? Mix. funny personality. reading everyone else’s posts I feel blessed. He has never chewed up anything and he can’t reach the kitchen counters. He doesn’t do anything to feel guilty for. Mostly likes to sleep on someones lap or even curled up next to the cat. Of course, I always say the dogs train me. We have everything down to such a routine that we really don’t have behavior problems. Wish I could say the same for the kids…</p>
<p>I have Shelties. The ones I have trained are very quick learners. The night after training class they hang in their crate reading the textbook under the covers by flashlight. I have never caught them doing it; that is my only explanation for how quickly they learn an exercise.</p>
<p>A year or so ago I came home to find my (then) 2yo yellow lab had chewed ANOTHER of my shoes. My fault, of course, for leaving it out, and I knew it. I was mad, mostly at myself, I knew I couldn’t REALLY scold poor Ellie for it. So I yelled at myself (well, just a little at her) and stalked away to sulk. Ellie decided she’d better hide under an endtable for the time being. About 15 minutes later, she comes slinking into the other room where I am sitting, her head down, tail drooping, and sits against the couch where I was sitting. She looked up at me, and I KID YOU NOT, she was CRYING TEARS. I’ve never seen anything like it. So (of course) I had to pet her, she was SO beside herself with joy…</p>
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<p>If you watch the Denver the guilty dog video, that’s exactly what happens. Macy, the first dog, looks completely disinterested in the situation. Denver’s body language is a dead giveaway.</p>
<p>@performer- She sounds beautiful! I love the blue pits, too. </p>
<p>@ebe- My girl does the same thing, except with my dad’s crossing guard vest. He takes her with him (she stays in the car) because she likes to be by the kids and then afterwards he takes her to run in the park. She’s always very excited when she sees that vest! However, it’s too cold to take her now and she’s not a happy camper when that vest goes on and she stays home.</p>
<p>I have to be honest. My dogs really never do much of anything wrong in the house, so I do not have any “guilty” stories. I guess it is because we do have such a routine, and they know what is what. The only annoying issue is that they get impatient for their meals- they cannot tell time, I guess! And they do bark occasionally, and if anyone can give me a fool-proof technique to stop that, I recommend they sell it for a million dollars!</p>
<p>We also have taken them to obedience classes, where the teachers trained ME how to live peaceably with my hounds, what techniques to use, how basically the bad behavior is MY fault. One of my shar-pei is an AKC champion, CGC, and rally intermediate- he is a pleaser and loves jobs to do like that. The other is more like a terrier than a shar-pei- very spirited, to put it mildly.
We always put them in their comfy padded crates when we are out and at shows- they expect it, chill and nap in their dens.<br>
Crating in our bedroom was great for the first 6 months of night-time- kept the puppies from making mistakes at night. Also, chinese shar-pei are uniquely easy to toilet-train- they basically train themselves by 8 or 9 weeks as long as you let them out regularly. In fact, I bred two of mine, whelped the *****, and raised the litter of four pups in my family room- now THAT was a real experience!</p>
<p>So, I guess I have it easy. But I have to admit my shar-pei are champion pullers on leashed walks, even after years of classes and training. It is my fault somehow, I am sure (as I shrink away)…</p>
<p>I love hearing stories about your doggies!</p>
<p>I used to have a lab that would act so guilty you would immediately start looking for what she had done. It usually involved food theft of some sort. I’d walk through the door and she would sit with her head hanging and roll her eyes up toward me and I’d immediately say “what did you do?” I loved that dog.</p>
<p>Our neighbor at the time also had a lab that had broken her front leg as a pup. She was about 5 or 6 when we knew her and if she had been naughty she would lift her leg up in front of her face and hang her head and look hurt. it was hysterical.</p>
<p>This is a fun thread! Thanks for starting it.</p>
<p>We have two dogs. When we come home, if something is amiss, we just have to say in a stern voice, “who did this!?” and only the guilt party puts his tail between his legs and tries to quietly sneak away (usually upstairs). I’m not sure DMD is right- it might not be guilt but why don’t they both have this reaction? We also know, from having seen it in action, which ones tend to do which behavior. So when we call them on it, only the ‘guilty’ reacts. Again might not be the correct emotion - it might just be fear- but they clearly know they are the ones caught. </p>
<p>When the oldest was a puppy, if he did something ‘bad’ he had a time out in the bathroom. We just had to say 'bathroom!" and point. Even to this day if we use our disappointed or frustrated voice he’ll sometimes put himself in the bathroom.</p>
<p>Every dog I have ever owned gave the Guilty Dog body language when they had done something they knew was against the rules. It’s a sure give away sign to go look for whatever it is they have done.</p>
<p>JustaMom: YOU HAVE AN ELLIE?!!! We had a golden Ellie. In the course of her life she ate: 5 pairs of Ferragamos, 2 pairs of Manolos (she learned to push open closet doors), 1 sofa, 1 loveseat, hundreds of girls underwear (pooped out), and would welcome guests with the first piece of intimate apparel that she found.</p>
<p>She stole food, pillows, sweaters…and our hearts. I miss her…a lot.</p>
<p>Great youtube!
The headsnap in the beginning was priceless…</p>
<p>Here’s another one that was viral: [Living</a> With an English Mastiff (<strong><em>ORIGINAL</em></strong>) - YouTube](<a href=“Living With an English Mastiff (*****ORIGINAL*****) - YouTube”>Living With an English Mastiff (*****ORIGINAL*****) - YouTube)</p>
<p>It makes me laugh every time.</p>