Is your dog strange....

[Cath]

or is it only mine?

Big butch Bob is scared of the dark and will only settle if there is a nightlight on in the room.

Cowardy, custard Brenya, who is frightened of noise and her own shadow at times has a new friend. Any train on the East Coast Mainline. She playbows at them and then chases them.

Anyone else's dogs got strange habits?

[Becky_luvs_lurchers]

Hi,
My Danny doesn't seem to have any strange habits although I do have another dog (Holly, who isn't a grey but a terrier) and when ever there is a dog on the TV she will run up to it and bark! I dont think she has realised that she's really barking at the TV, and not the dog!!
Speak soon...
Becky xx

[geordie40]

my little whippet molly wont walk next to anyone holding a carrier bag and my new greyhound dog daisy is obsessed with rolled up socks amd my slippers, she carriers them in her mouth back to her bed (doesnt eat them just sits with them). dont know if thats strange cos im so used to it now.

[whippetwoman]

Aww, bless him! My lurcher, Sophie, is the complete opposite re: sleeping with a light on.

She uses her front leg to cover her eyes when she's trying to get to sleep. Our whippet did exactly the same thing, but we didn't know whether she'd taught him to do this. If the light is switched off, she doesn't do it. The only thing we can think of is that it helps to exclude the light...? Do all greys/ lurchers do this or is this a bit strange?

(Mind you, there's a lot to be said for an occasional lie down in a darkened room).

[Cath]

I'd love to be able to go to bed in the dark... but you get used to sleeping with the light on I guess.

Isn't the carrier bag thing strange? Never heard of that one. Brenya steals shoes as well, and hides them in her bed. Now we are more savvy and put them away, she nicks whatever she can. Their bed has become the first place we check when things go missing

[geordie40]

oh i forgot about my whippet covering her eyes to blot out the light(if she cant get her head under something she covers them with her legs, daisy also does this as well. my daughter has a natural wake up light which annoys them as it works so well and they try to get their quilt over their heads when it goes off, pity it doesnt work as well for my daughter!

[Cath]

Bob covers his nose sometimes when he farts. And does his best Lady Di eyes face to try and convince us it wasn't him. Neither of ours like sleeping in the dark. How strange

[whippetwoman]

My lurcher had a fear of carrier bags at one time. (In fact, she was scared of everything at one time). She was cured of her phobia when she discovered that carrier bags often contain her favourite thing: FOOD!

[sharon m]

Our whippet Obi has to sleep with a blanket over him every night,it always amazes me when i watch him getting under it how perfectly he does it so you cant see one inch of him,if he comes up on the bed he has to be under the quilt and will fight you tooth and nail till he wins.

[Lotties Mam]

Lottie sleeps pretty much where she likes

But she doesnt like it when we are not all together

My Ian has a bad back & sometimes he sleeps in a chair downstairs oh n when he snores too when this happens Lottie spends the night between Andys room our room & downstairs but basically when she's asleep nothin wakes here except the smell of food she is a real gutsy