Car watching
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Otis has a thing for trucks, and some cars. We can be out walking and he will actually tryto get closer to the trucks, like a deer, moving into the path of the vehicles. Scares the bejesus out of me , so now I have a really tight rein on him while walking on some streets. Wonder why that is, especially since he got hit by a car when he was 5 mo oldd..you'd think he would be running the other way..
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Jaycee just don't care for cars and seems its the ones that make some know of noise. Yes I forgot her and motorcycles even since we did the ride at Harley all those bikes she really comes to life when she see's or hear's one. Need less to say we have four on our street.
Rita Jean
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For Cody its the Fed Ex/ UPS truck that makes it rounds through the neighborhood. He will run to the front bay window and watch it drive down the street and when its out of sight he will run out to the back yard looking for it? I often wonder what he think when he's doing that. He also loves to stare at the reflection from the light coming from his dog tag in the house. I have seen him stare at the ceiling for 1/2 hour.
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Jaycee has chased and looked for I will say the light off her tag. We thought first few times we seen her do it she was going crazy or something. She was the smart one we were not took us several different times to finally see what she was seeing. When sun is comming in window put your ring up there just right she will chase light from it also. The normal little penlight flashlight she will chase that is her most fun one I think.
Rita Jean
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Oh my - Trinity watches everything - from people to birds to cars to bugs - goes nuts over motorcycles & birds & will practically choke herself on her collar while trying to chase a passing car. Funny, I'd thought all Bs were watchers & that my Denver was just a bit different, although he will embarrass me when he does not stop staring at someone - like he's glued to the ground. Sometimes the 2 are so insistent, their leash pulling will result in a standing-on-hind-legs position & they still won't budge…
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My first boy was a car chaser, well, anything that moved chaser, be it mechanical or biological, ok, even dead leaves blowing across the ground would catch his attention for at least a moment. Current guy doesn't really care about cars too much (unless they need muffler work). I live near an Airforce base so we have low flying planes going over all the time, he doesn't care. I also live near a highway. Last week I heard what I thought was just one of the trucks going by on the highway but the noise (thump,thump,thump) just kept going. Finally, I decided to go out front (Arleigh was out back) to try to find out what this noise was. It was coming from the neighborhood side not the highway, so I have to walk around back to see that it is a helicopter hovering about 500 ft. above the houses about a block away. What's Arleigh doing…looking up into the hickory tree into which a squirrel has run. Couldn't care less about this extremely loud hovering thing. Don't know why it was there, had no markings other than the tail numbers, and it flew directly over the back yard a couple of times only to hover again in the same spot. No reaction from Arleigh except his normal "Well you're out here, let's play!" Silly dog, the humans were all coming out of their houses to try to see what was going on and he was being....well... a Basenji.:)
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Haha! Cute story - and yes, the dead leaves….:)
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Otis loves looking out the window..especially at squirrels..and cars, bicyclists are not even funny, they all go nuts..and birds..and the neighborhood dogs and on and on..My favorite part, he doesn't bark like the two other dogs, thank god….!!
Here is Otis, Gus and Luna.
Otis and Gus.
cute cute! Yes, it is nice to have a couple that don't bark.
Do y'all have hummingbirds? My B's run themselves ragged on the front porch chasing the hummingbirds from feeder to feeder. The hummingbirds dive bomb the dogs all the time and it is hilarious to watch.
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@caz:
Yep, dead leaves, seaweed, bits of fluff, bunnies….. lol.
He also does a meerkat pose if the grass is too long for him to see over. He'll stand stock still on his back legs just looking into the fields :D
The meerkat pose…cool! Never seen mine do that.
At Rocco's first show at Windsor, I had just got him stacked on the table for the judge to examine, when a low flying jumbo jet went directly overhead. He just stood there, motionless, apart from watching this plane. Everybody laughed, including the judge, and me!I've had to kit the kitchen windowsil out with vetbed, so they can wildlife watch/sunbathe in comfort. And you know all about Dora's love of car chasing!
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I also have a showstory to share…
Ochre is particularly interested in the birds too. What I had started to do was say, 'Is that the birds/birdies ???', to her, and she would stop whatever, to watch them fly around... Thats fine, until, I was at a show, just placed her on a table, she looked up, and stoopid me, says to her, "Is that the birdies", not thinking what I was saying, or more to the point, where I was... WELL, she freezes, up goes the head, and I CANNOT get her to do anything... I patiently wait, with the judge standing next to me, till the damn bird goes out of sight, stack her up, and the judge looks at me and says "I thought these were hounds not bird dogs !!!" I apologize to him, blushing madly, hes laughing, and Ochre goes on to win BOB :o:o:o
Later I tell him what that was all about, still very red faced I might add...
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Cody just likes watching whatever is outside: cars, people, animals, grass, wind, whatever. He doesn't even notice planes or helicopters anymore unless they are flying extremely low, but we live near Camp Lejeune, where they are a common occurrence.
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Otis will chase seagulls when we are at the beach, not in the air though, he chases their shadows..silly dog.
