What "Cue's" Does Your Dog Pick Up On?

I find it amazing, how our dogs learn our individual "Cue's" and what they mean.

We all know/have the typical ones "want to go outside" "want to go for a car ride" or their reaction when you grab the lead, or collar.

But what other ones does your best friend have?

The ones I find interesting are when I'm working from home and she's laying in the office, could be dead asleep and snoring, but as soon as I hit the Windows Key + L to lock my computer and that "da ding" tone plays she bolts up, sits, and tail going a mile a minute, knowing I'm leaving the office and there's a chance we may be going somewhere.

She does the same when I lock my cellphone and it makes the click.

Neat how she associates hearing that sound with me getting up to go do something.

She also goes bat $h1t crazy when the suitcases come out. We travel quite a bit throughout the fowl season, and vacation season and she knows what the luggage means.

started packing last night for our turkey trip and she's been huffing and pacing non stop since, poor pup doesn't know she isn't coming on this one.

What sets your dog off?

What really set off our little JR was when she heard the lock to the gun cabinet snap open. She would just go absolutely bonkers.

The sound my knife makes on a cutting board when I am cutting Watermelon. Or when the freezer door opens in the wee hours of the morning during the work week means that he may get a few frozen blueberries in his dish.

Hank gets jacked up when I put on camouflage. He goes through the roof if I head downstairs to the hunting closet right afterwards.

It is amazing.
I say to my husband , " Do you want to go for a w -a- l -k ( spelling it)? The dogs can spell I guess. They start to wait for their leashes.
Also alert to the garage door opening, ( "They're home!" )
and the microwave being turned on. ( "Anything being made for me?")

The smell of lipstick being put on sends the JRT to his crate sulking. It is amazing Jason.

My alarm sound for when I go fishing is crickets chirping. My dog knows that sound means we are going in the boat and she's up before me sitting in front of the door so I can't get by her without taking her. A normal day she sleeps in until noon.

Scraping the spoon on the bottom of an empty yogurt cup also gets her salivater flowing and she makes a fool of herself blowing spit bubbles until she gets the container to lick.

If I open cheese my current dog will run in like she is on fire. She could be in the basement and she cues.

My old guy that left us at Christmas would hear the train horn when I used to ride it that was about a mile from our house. He would run to the back gate of a Vegetable field we backed onto and would wait for me.

If I pull the cutting board out my BLF know's she will be getting scrap Venison pieces or fish. Food is her # 1 motivator.. :)

"Where's the Squirrel..........................?

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Originally Posted by LiveBates

"Where's the Squirrel..........................?

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That would also send my JRT into a frenzy.

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Originally Posted by Mdiddi

If I open cheese my current dog will run in like she is on fire. She could be in the basement and she cues.

My old guy that left us at Christmas would hear the train horn when I used to ride it that was about a mile from our house. He would run to the back gate of a Vegetable field we backed onto and would wait for me.

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Now you are making me cry.

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Originally Posted by M_P

That would also send my JRT into a frenzy.

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X3 The setters could care less. Must be in terrier blood. :)

When I pass gas my dog leaves the room. :)

My husky is my shadow, almost literally! If I put on a ballcap, he goes into an instant frenzy because he knows we're going outside. And another biggy with him is the time? I swear he has an internal clock ticking! At 6:15pm he starts staring at me. If I don't re-act, he will get up and go to his dish, just to double check that nothing got by him. Then he will come over closer to me, lay down and do the soft whine approach. If I still don't re-act, I will eventually get the paw. He wants his supper and he wants it now! The wife and I have tested this many times, even when the spring time changes? At 6:15 regardless, he will start his performance.

The cue my curly picked up on was little serious. He would for no reason wake me up in the middle of the night. This continued for a few months. He would nudge me awake and when I spoke to him, he would just go lay back down. I mentioned this to my doctor and he sent to a sleep clinic. I have sleep apnea and require a c-pap machine to sleep. That was seven years ago and Gershwin is still on duty, making sure I get through the night.

Years ago with the one lab I had I'd say you want to go for a walk, and he'd start to prance around. Then I'd say where's my boots after I had hid them. He'd go through every room until he found them and would bring me one. I'd then say where's the other one and he'd take off and get the other one. This same dog actually went through a screen door when I left the house with a gun in my hand and didn't take him. Never did that again...

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The cue my curly picked up on was little serious. He would for no reason wake me up in the middle of the night. This continued for a few months. He would nudge me awake and when I spoke to him, he would just go lay back down. I mentioned this to my doctor and he sent to a sleep clinic. I have sleep apnea and require a c-pap machine to sleep. That was seven years ago and Gershwin is still on duty, making sure I get through the night.

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Wow!.......................

Some great and touched my / personal stories.

Now. To you cat people. What does your cat do. Kidding. :)

I work from home when not on the road and the dog is always around me. I'm also the one who does the walking and training and hunting, so she pays pretty close attention to everything I do. Among the cues she picks up on ... picking up my shoes, picking up my sunglasses, picking up a ball cap, picking up a jacket ... even standing up from my chair, but only at lunchtime or at the end of the workday.

But the one that amazes me is that she has learned to recognize my Swiss Army knife.

This one is strange: I like tuna, but my can opener cuts from the outside of the lid so I can't squeeze out the water. So to open a can of tuna, I always use my good old Victorinox Soldier. And because I know she likes it, I always drain the tuna juice into the dog's dish.

Now, I have a serious pocket knife problem. I think at the moment I own about two dozen pocket knives. And I can pick up any of them without the dog batting an eyelid. But if I pick up that Swiss Army knife, she's all over me looking for her tuna juice.

I think she's got me more or less completely figured out. :)

My dog understands most of what is said in the house I'm convinced. Nothing gets by him. The worst though is turkey season. In the fall when I get up in the dark to go bird hunting he always get's to go and his head almost explodes when my feet hit the floor. This Saturday I will be going turkey hunting and leaving the house at 3.30 am and be doing it "WITHOUT HIM". Well, he will have a damned fit and wake everybody up in the house. They will curse me and the dog and I will hear about it all day when I get back. I now hunt turkey only a couple days a year only because of this. This damned dog is never more than 5 ft from me if I'm home, absolute velcro. Without a word of a lie he actually follows me into the can. He's laying at my feet now ( no I'm not on the throne ) and having a dream, funny as hell. He will whimper, groan and even growl in his sleep. What a dumazz...

Holy smokes where do I begin?! Lol.

My bonehead takes everything as a cue. You even look at him sideways and he goes bonkers... you would think he's starved for attention