• Shadow@lemmy.ca
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    My dog found pizza in a bush once and now he always checks the pizza bush.

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      To be fair: if you ever found an unexpected larger amount of money (unexpected pizza for a dog must feel like finding a few hundred bucks at least) in a bush, you would check it again from time to time as well. Just in case ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    If you’ve ever had a food obsessed dog you will have witnessed them going back to their food bowl some time after eating their dinner to give it another lick, just in case some food had materialised.

    In our family, we believe there is a special bed time story, passed down from mother to puppy, of the Dog With the Magical Refilling Dinner Bowl. Puppies remember this story, and check their bowls every night, just in case they are lucky like the dog in the story.

    In order to ensure the story lives on, for our dogs birthdays we will feed them, wait for them to finish and wander off, then quietly refill their bowls with another full dinner. Without fail, every time, our dogs will come back to their bowls and do an actual, comical, boggle-eyed double-take when they realise there is food in the bowl again.

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      How in the world do you manage to open up the food container and fill their bowls silently enough for them to not come sprinting from across the house the moment they hear it?

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    Someone I went to school with had a dog who was lying on its back and yawning, when a squirrel happened to fall out of a tree and right into its mouth. Probably not even a chance in a million. But every since then, the dog kept lying at the bottom of that tree, on its back, mouth wide open, panting, in hopes that another squirrel would fall in.

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    I’ll have you know, one time there was a skink at the old pump house, and now any time we walk down that way, no matter how cold or dark it is, that pump house must be inspected once more for skinks.

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    Yes.

    Your dog will never forget finding food in an unexpected place. For me it happens a lot when we’re out on walks. He has a bush he always checks behind and a spot he always tries to dig.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    The first time my husky saw a squirrel, it ran up a tree. Every time I walked her around the block thereafter, she would try to go up the same tree; in case any squirrels were there.

    She licks everything all the time for no reason regardless of whether there was ever food on it. 🤷‍♂️

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    Our dog licks any surface he can, but it’s on Prednisone so he’s always starving to death (he is a healthy weight, and the vet even wants him to lose a bit more).

    The annoying part is that because of this he gets hairs caught in his remaining teeth, and he will only let the vet get them out.

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      oh dude the prednisone hungers. that’s… that’s a hunger i haven’t had matched even by cannabis. i had the gut problems and didn’t eat but a handful of anything for like a month. we figured out prednisone would treat it and when i took prednisone, the next day i ate everything in the house but the spices and the flour. i’d’ve shown a little restraint but like, i needed the calories.

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    My dog licks the couch routinely. No food spilled. Just an old leather couch. I assume she still thinks it tastes like beef.

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    Yes but its my pants and I fucking hate it. It’s an irrational hate but it’s there.