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

[Sharon]

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.

Now you are making me cry.

[Sharon]

That would also send my JRT into a frenzy.

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

[yellow dog]

When I pass gas my dog leaves the room.

[Bushmoose]

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.

[CCR]

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.

[Bo D]

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...

[Sharon]

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.

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

[TurkeyRookie]

Some great and touched my / personal stories.

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

[welsh]

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.

[terrym]

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...