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Are you saying if the human puts the money away, the dog will also put the money away instead of eat it?
Not too farfetched. A childhood friend of mine had a Lab-German Shepherd mix. They let it lick ice cream wrappers. One day, after licking it, it, totally unprompted, took the wrapper and dropped it in a garbage can.
It's one of the reasons dogs are so tender with babies (except golden retrievers that is). They see that humans are tender towards babies and act likewise.
Oh, my old golden retriever LOVED babies and small children! She would crouch down next to them and let them crawl all over her and pull her fur.
But my answer to the OPs question is: Get a cat. Cats are warm and fuzzy and loving and usually don't eat weird stuff.
How would others handle the canine thievery? How would it affect your relationship with man's best friend?
I don't leave cash lying around but my dogs have damaged more than $500 worth of my stuff. I just replace the items if I need them. I get upset when it first happens but get over it soon after so it does not affect my relationship with them. Since my dog is old, I feel nostalgic about those puppy incidents.
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Originally Posted by shyguylh
This is why I don't let dogs in our house, cats either (yes I know this happened in a car). It is MY house and I shouldn't have to edit my behavior because of some other living thing that's there that can't behave. If I want to leave $100 bills lying around, or my computer parts, or my phone, or medicine, ANYTHING, I will bloody well do so, and there better not be ANYTHING happen. That's my expectation and I'm sticking with it. I used to let cats live inside, but too many times of them getting into the food and me shouting to the wife "you better get this cat out of here before I put a bullet in its head" has me to where the cats aren't allowed in here either. Even the kids know better than to touch my stuff, I once spanked my 3 year old for touching the candy that was right in his line of sight, it seriously is my expectation that he's supposed to see it, want it, be tempted by it, but still not touch--because I said so. Anything that can't do that isn't allowed in here.
The questions are how to deal with thievery and how it affects your relationship with your dog. It seems like these do not apply to you and I have seen other posts where you go off on a tangent about your feelings about dogs which no one asked.
One person had five crisp $100 bills eaten by their over-mischievous dog. The "victim" pieced together some of the missing currency from the dog's stool . The Mutilated Currency Division of the U.S. government replaced the money. The writer lost a smaller amount of money but the local bank was willing to replace the partially chewed $5 bill with a crisp replacement.
How would others handle the canine thievery? How would it affect your relationship with man's best friend?
you train your dog to treasure paper money. my little shiba inu now finds a dropped bill, tucks it in her mouth and brings it to me and drops it and runs away.
I am, actually, as long as there aren't animals in the house. I don't want to deny my wife/2 children the joy of pets, but I have to be comfortable in my own house vs feeling like I'm on "guard duty" every single second. The only way that works is the animals stay outside and they are able to play with them there all they want to.
Animals? While your attitude toward them makes me hope you don't have any, I was referring to the wife you yell at and the kid you smack for touching "your" stuff. Maybe you consider them "animals" as well and therefore yours to treat however you see fit. Yeah, living with you sounds like a laugh a minute.
Dogs are the ultimate imitators of humans. If they see something humans consider important they treat it in a similar manner to the wya humans do. If the humans hide it the dogs do likewise.
It's one of the reasons dogs are so tender with babies (except golden retrievers that is). They see that humans are tender towards babies and act likewise.
You are one awesomely crazy little cookie.
Do you think if I sing a lot my dog will start singing?
Or is it just behavior based? Maybe if I put on moisturizer in front of my dog, she’ll start using it too?
I wonder why my dog hasn’t started using the toilet. She sees me using it all the time. I don’t know, there must be something wrong with my dog.
Edit: I did catch her sleeping the other day. I think she gets that from me.
While I wouldn't consider it a pleasurable moment, I would certainly dig through dog-doo for $500.00. Put on gloves, put on a painter's mask, put the dog-doo in a bucket of water with Dawn detergent and let it soak a bit. Ultimately, the dog-doo will soften and will separate from the money. The money does, after all, contain cloth fibers so it's kind of like laundering your clothes.
Kid swallowed Mom's ring. Mom made him defecate on newspapers on the floor and searched - yes - until the ring came out. This stuff happens everyday, somewhere on the planet. Many people have evolved to the point of knowing how to reclaim their valuables.
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