Does your dog ever...

[Laurelin]

... Just randomly make up commands that they HAVE to do? Like the other day, Summer was being silly, so she went into Lizz's room and sat in a stay for 5 minutes. You could just see her tensing and wanting to leave but for some reason wouldn't. So I called her over and she got really excited like she'd done something good, but I never put her in the stay to begin with. She put herself in the stay! lol

Nikki used to do things like that too. She'd stay and not come until you said a specific word. I'd be telling her 'Nikki, come home!' Nikki, come! 'Nikki come here!', 'Come!' etc until I'd say the 'right one' (which was always different) until she'd finally come. Then she'd run up and be excited like she'd done something I'd wanted her to do...

 

[Domestika]

Nova sits at the door while I get ready and once I open the door she just stares at me.

I did start off telling her to wait before walking through the doorway...and then telling her "ok" and letting her go through it.

But I don't really do that anymore and haven't for a while. And "ok" doesn't even work anymore. She'll stand there and stare at the open door and I'll be like "Ok!" "Ok, go on" "Ok, outside" "Nova OUTSIDE" and finally she'll dart out the door.

She's a weirdo.

 

[BostonBanker]

Meg has apparently decided that we do a stay in the morning before going down stairs for breakfast. I always get out of bed before her (lazy dog). While I am in the bathroom, she gets up and is always laying down outside the bedroom door. She gets very tense and excited as I approach, bounces up in to a play bow, and eagerly awaits my "okay", at which point she bolts down the stairs like she was shot out of a cannon.

I have never once asked her to wait for me to release her there; it's her own fun game that she gets a kick out of. And so do I - it's nice to have something to smile and giggle about three minutes after waking up!

 

[Suzzie]

no... they do not...

 

[skittledoo]

Bamm does all the time. He'll sit or lay down and stay somewhere. I wont notice he's doing it until he starts whining to let me know that he's still in a stay and wants to be released.

 

[skKi]

Pit always 'stays' at the top of any stairway. In my apartment, we walk down 5 flights of stairs to get outside every monrning. If I'm not paying attention, I'll lose him somewhere along the way because I forgot to release him. Waiting at stairs has never been enforced. Ever.

 

[Dekka]

Dekka used to offer stays as a pup.. very cute. The whippets like to spin when they want in. LOL I would let them in anyway.

 

[jess2416]

Chloe...

pfffttt...

yeah right

:rofl1:

 

[Lizmo]

Okay, HAHA! I think Summer is a Border Collie. We had this discusion JUST the other day on the BC Boards. :lol-sign:

 

[Doberluv]

I love it when dogs do stuff like that...just try things to see how it all turns out. LOL. Toker is allowed to get on my bed whenever...I don't care. And she does occassionally during the day. She'll just disappear and that's where I find her. BUT....at night, when I turn off the TV and lights, head down the hall to brush my teeth, she'll be sitting on the floor at the foot of my bed, waiting. Until I get in and get myself and the Chi's comfortable, she just waits until I say, "come on up." I never trained her or asked her to wait. She just does. And it's good because otherwise she might end up on my side of the bed instead of where I like her.

 

[RivetLikeWhoa]

Argo's has taken it apon himself to learn the "roll over" command. When ever I go to feed him, I make him sit, then lay, give me one paw, then the other (I switch up asking for right and left, just so he doesn't just get into the swing of things and think that "left" is always first), then I ask him to speak. usually after all that he rolls over completly, then rolls on his back and curls his paws up to beg for it, lol. I never taught him to roll or beg

 

[Chewbecca]

Ella has been doing this a LOT lately. I think the poor dog is confused. I use my photography as a means to work on obedience with Ella.
The poor dog! I'll tell her sit, but it takes me a minute to get the right distance from her so that those ears fit in the entire frame, so I'm saying, "Stay, Ella, Stay, good girl, stay."

But apparently I don't give her the treat for sitting and staying fast enough, so now her new thing is to drop into a down...slowly...as if she's a sphinx that I've just demanded into a down position!
:lol-sign:

Also, when we come in from working out in the yard, she will NOT go through the door into the house without me going first. I NEVER trained her like that. Well, I mean, not for a LONG time. And when I TRIED to train her not to go through doorways before me (I never trained her harshly), it NEVER worked.

Also, she, too, is allowed on our bed whenever she wants. But at night, when I get under the covers to lay down and watch tv, she moves off the bed and goes and lays down in her OWN bed. Amazing! Because she doesn't do that all day long!