Is your dog graceful or a clutz?

[Paige]

My boyfriend and I were talking about the huge difference between Bandit and Arya today. I never noticed how graceful B is till we got Arya. Everything he does seems to be all about being effective. He has great coordination and rarely does something that causes him to lose his balance. He even has a posh little trot he moves in when off leash.

Arya? When she runs she looks like she is doing the windmill, she constantly is getting herself into hilarious situations that cause her to fall right on her face and she is just all around a big fail.

So what about your dogs?

 

[Fran101]

This is such a hard question lol I'd have to say he is a very AGILE KLUTZ

He can leap and run and spin and jump over just about anything, like a little rabbit
But much like a little rabbit...he boinks, loses his footing, trips over his own feet, falls down the stairs etc.. :rofl1:

He is fast and can jump high no doubt about it but he's a total klutz at heart lol

 

[Paige]

Some of those zoomie dogs are like that. Bandit was like that when he was Merlin's age too but now he's a dignified posh old man.

 

[Linds]

Both Traveler and Didgie are graceful, their movements tend to be very effortless and agile. Love watching them move.

Fergus is about as much as an opposite as one can be. Made worse by him trying his hardest to imitate the Koolies and......failing.

 

[Paige]

Thats so Arya! She is Bandit's shadow and tries so hard to copy him and yet fails so miserably.

 

[Beanie]

I was going to say Pepper is the worst because she clocks her head on stuff daily. But Payton... for starters, Payton lacks brakes. So he just kind of goes barreling around into things. Doors. Walls. My legs. He also will get really excited and spin around to run off and do something/grab something/bark at nothing and smack his head on the door frame or anything that happens to be in his way really. Payton moves first and thinks later. It's, um, kind of a problem.

I just remembered the time I called Auggie from another room and he came running down the hall, full speed, and slammed into my shins. And I hit the ground. I mean I went DOWN. It hurt so bad. And I was also laughing hysterically because it was funny at the same time. Auggie also will round corners with too much speed and run into things... his favourite is to run in from the backyard but going too fast to make the turn to come up on the deck and instead he flies into the boxwood.

My boys. They are... well, they are my boys.
That said they are PRETTY movers. Both have lovely movement. It's not really clumsy per se. But the whole "LOOK MA NO BRAKES" is a family trait they both inherited.

 

[sassafras]

Maisy is like some kind of cross between a monkey and a gazelle. So, yes.

Many times Squash chooses to try to just muscle into/through things. Having said that, he's not clumsy. He's capable of being surprisingly agile for his size and he has pretty darn good body awareness. He just believes in the power of brawn.

Pip is pretty average. He's neither clumsy nor agile.

 

[Southpaw]

omg I wish I had video of Cajun. We are always commenting on how she is the clumsiest, most UNgraceful dog ever. She faceplants about 100 times a day. A trip to the park is not complete without her wiping out, sliding in the mud, and falling flat on her face. Even when she just plays by herself in the house she always manages to trip over herself and fall over lol.

My coworker's favorite moment is when I was walking out the front door with Cajun, and instead of walking out the door like a normal dog, she slammed right into the glass window next to the door.

Juno... certainly doesn't have the same issue but I don't know that I'd exactly call her graceful either lol. For the most part she's pretty smooth and balanced but she gets tripped up sometimes

The other 2 don't ever do anything that requires grace so who knows lol.

 

[Toller_08]

I wouldn't call Journey a clutz, but she does trip walking up the stairs and crashes into things sometimes. But it is because she likes to move at a pace quicker than necessary and doesn't always pay attention to her surroundings in certain situations haha. I would not call her graceful either though. She is bouncy, athletic and agile and does a pretty good job of maintaining balance while leaping for joy, but is not careful necessarily all the time. Kind of inbetween and situation dependent.

Graceful does not come to mind when I think of Dance, but I guess she could be considered graceful. She is super careful and aware and very rarely trips or falls or anything like that. I just don't think of the word graceful when I look at a Toller lol. I think of cute!

Keira is graceful. She moves with ease and again, rarely stumbles or crashes into anything. She has her moments of looking like a complete clutz when playing, but she really isn't most of the time.

Ripley is graceful, but isn't as prettily graceful as Keira. He isn't as effortless as she is, but he is still very aware and agile and rarely trips or collides with anything. His facial expressions are not very graceful always but the rest of him generally is haha.

 

[JacksonsMom]

Jackson is more so graceful. But I'm not sure I like that word for him, because he can be super wild at times and then just be moving too fast and not realizing what's ahead of him, but he's not really a clutz either lol.

Overall he's very agile. But then he has moments where a noise sets him off (ex: the four wheelers at my dads house). One time he was laying down with me on the picnic table, calm, etc, and then he heard a four wheeler and literally JUMPED up so fast and tripped, scrapped his chin on the picnic table and FLUNG himself off the high end of the table. So there's THAT.

But overall he's more agile/graceful than clutzy.

 

[teacuptiger]

Roxie is very dainty and agile in her movements... Very effortless, and never clumsy. She prances a lot, lol. I compare her to a horse that does that show stepping thing... ESPECIALLY when she's showing off or in a really excellent mood.

 

[Catsi]

Grace is a clutz lol.

Abby is pretty agile and graceful.

However...

In the same week, two incidents happened - Grace knocked a coffee cup off my outside 'coffee table' (actually an upside down waste paper basket) with her tail.

It bounced.

A couple of mornings after, Abby was doing the zoomies and strangely enough ran straight into the coffee table... coffee mug was full of hot steaming beverage - it smashed and went everywhere... coffee table went flying. Thankfully, in the aftermath, Abby was standing in the middle of the chaos quite stunned, but unscathed!! The look on her face was priceless. And then I went into militant mother mode, making sure she didn't get cut with the glass shards.

So out of character to do that! lol

 

[*blackrose]

Well, Abrams runs in to walls. So....yah. :rofl1: He believes you can bowl through anything, and if you can get through it, you can knock it over.

That being said, he is surprisingly dainty when trying to crawl under tables and such. So he does know how to be delicate. He just chooses not to be.

 

[Elrohwen]

Watson is both. He is the biggest clutz as far as hitting his head into tables and walls, and running into things. On the other hand, his actual movements (trotting and running) are very graceful and efficient. He naturally has a pretty jump and uses his body well.

 

[BostonBanker]

Gusto is, generally, very graceful looking. Lovely mover, scales walls of rock like they are nothing, and flies around the woods like a deer. Unless he's in the car. He (bad mama) used to ride with his front feet on the center console if we were just going to the store or something, and if you so much as tap the breaks, he dramatically flies around. I have no idea why he can't stay on his feet in a vehicle, and now he pretty much just rides crated to avoid it.

Meg isn't a dog that anyone would consider "graceful" just based on looks and movement, but she has a ridiculous sense of balance and amazing proprioception. She never loses her footing regardless of where she is, what she is doing, and how fast she is going. She reminds me of a good, ranch-bred, stock horse. Efficient as heck and always balanced, but nobody stares and goes "wow".

 

[ruffiangirl]

This is such a hard question lol I'd have to say he is a very AGILE KLUTZ

He can leap and run and spin and jump over just about anything, like a little rabbit
But much like a little rabbit...he boinks, loses his footing, trips over his own feet, falls down the stairs etc.. :rofl1:

He is fast and can jump high no doubt about it but he's a total klutz at heart lol

This is Diesel as well, lol, he can jump, run play and look great doing it, then he tries to jump on the wrong thing and falls off, or barrels into a wall.

Gage is a giant clutz! He is a walking caution sign, at any minute he will smack his head on a wall/table/lamp/person, knock stuff and people over with his butt, step on you, he just has no clue where his body is at any given minute lmao.

Bristol, she is good about knowing where she is, but there is nothing graceful about a shih tzu jumping...ever lol.

 

[shadowfacedanes]

Ditto is a dainty little wrecking ball. A bull in a china shop. She has zero concern about what's in the way from point A to point B. If she can't go around something, she'll just go through it. Well, most of the times she doesn't even bother with the going around it part.

Corvus is very sure footed and agile. It's his ass that gets in the way. He seems to forget that it's attached to the rest of him. I can't leave anything on the coffee table anymore because he'll knock it off. He swings that ass around like it's a tow along trailer. :rofl1:

 

[AmandaNola]

Nola is very graceful and agile. Pike is a total klutz.

 

[Tortilla]

Sally was extraordinarily graceful. Very surefooted and agile, she moved beautifully. I can't remember her ever crashing into anything or falling over.

Seamus is neither. He's not graceful, per se, but he's not a klutz either. I don't think either word describes him.

Paris is a clumsy puppy so far. But I think she'll be graceful when she matures!

 

[LostAndConfused]

When he wants to, Hudson can be very graceful and agile. Normally he is going to fast / spazzy. He doesn't normally run into things, aside from me, but he is fast and lacks any sort of impulse control, so things can get pretty amusing.