I spent the night over at my grandma's house last night, she has a rescue Foxhound, Addie, who is 3ish years old? And she has a 9 month old Goldendoodle, Bentley, who is HUGE, he's gotta be 85-90lbs.
It annoys me when people think that just because you're a "dog person" you want to be jumped on obnoxiously all night and deal with dogs jumping up on the counter and sticking their noses in your bowls, etc. Don't get me wrong, our dogs (family dogs) can be annoying too, and are not the most "obedient" by any means, but my grandma's dogs.. I can't even describe. I just find them incredibly annoying. lol. And I feel bad saying it because they're both really sweet, but they're almost just SO derpy and dumb that they make me so irritated.
The thing with them is, they have energy but they're not 'high energy' per say... and they really have no drive. They don't have much desire for toys, or a ball, or food. My grandma has had her goldendoodle in training classes for the past 8 weeks, but she says he's just so stubborn. He pretty much only sits. He likes food, but is not super willing to learn. And Addie... literally doesn't want to learn anything. So then what happens is you have one dog who is untrained and doesn't listen (won't even follow food for a lure and hates toys) and a puppy 3x her size acting the same way. He will sit by himself but then Addie is jumping up and down and so he starts.
God, it was just stressful last night. And again they're both so 'dumb', I started yelling and stomping my feet (I lost my temper after they would NOT stop jumping on me no matter what I tried, and I consider myself a decent trainer) and they don't even CARE. You could be screaming at them or hitting them (not that I was) and they literally... just are wagging their tails, smiling at you! :yikes:
Jackson attacked each of them once because they were just so incredibly rude. And he's a very tolerant dog, but he had enough of just being stepped on and jumped on, and then Bentley would bite him (playfully, but hard) but it was like they didn't even learn.
I love learning what kind of dogs I do and don't like though! lol... I now know that I love high energy dogs, but a certain type of energy for sure. I would go batty with dogs like that. And again, it's hard to explain in words, because I sure as hell don't mind a dog who is not exactly the best behaved and maybe a bit in your face sometimes, but these guys were just so incredibly obnoxious. And my grandma kept laughing, she thought it was cute and funny. I also took Bentley on a 4 mile walk and played in the backyard for an hour and they were all still just super annoying.
It annoys me when people think that just because you're a "dog person" you want to be jumped on obnoxiously all night and deal with dogs jumping up on the counter and sticking their noses in your bowls, etc. Don't get me wrong, our dogs (family dogs) can be annoying too, and are not the most "obedient" by any means, but my grandma's dogs.. I can't even describe. I just find them incredibly annoying. lol. And I feel bad saying it because they're both really sweet, but they're almost just SO derpy and dumb that they make me so irritated.
The thing with them is, they have energy but they're not 'high energy' per say... and they really have no drive. They don't have much desire for toys, or a ball, or food. My grandma has had her goldendoodle in training classes for the past 8 weeks, but she says he's just so stubborn. He pretty much only sits. He likes food, but is not super willing to learn. And Addie... literally doesn't want to learn anything. So then what happens is you have one dog who is untrained and doesn't listen (won't even follow food for a lure and hates toys) and a puppy 3x her size acting the same way. He will sit by himself but then Addie is jumping up and down and so he starts.
God, it was just stressful last night. And again they're both so 'dumb', I started yelling and stomping my feet (I lost my temper after they would NOT stop jumping on me no matter what I tried, and I consider myself a decent trainer) and they don't even CARE. You could be screaming at them or hitting them (not that I was) and they literally... just are wagging their tails, smiling at you! :yikes:
Jackson attacked each of them once because they were just so incredibly rude. And he's a very tolerant dog, but he had enough of just being stepped on and jumped on, and then Bentley would bite him (playfully, but hard) but it was like they didn't even learn.
I love learning what kind of dogs I do and don't like though! lol... I now know that I love high energy dogs, but a certain type of energy for sure. I would go batty with dogs like that. And again, it's hard to explain in words, because I sure as hell don't mind a dog who is not exactly the best behaved and maybe a bit in your face sometimes, but these guys were just so incredibly obnoxious. And my grandma kept laughing, she thought it was cute and funny. I also took Bentley on a 4 mile walk and played in the backyard for an hour and they were all still just super annoying.