Shout-out today goes to Michele for supporting the site. Thank you! Now, some of you who watched the escape-artist dog from earlier today may have hoped the dog would release some of the others. Sadly, that didn’t happen, but here’s a video sent in by Paul P. in which another skillful dog does his pal a solid.
OMG the happy hop at the end! Mom and dad might not be so pleased, however.
“Come on, let’s go!”
Wasn’t that great? “Let’s RUMBLE!”
Now THAT is a smart dog.
Out of the slammer! Maybe he got his technique from watching Lady and the Tramp. (Remember the dogcatcher’s wagon?)
,
My question is why is one crated but not the other??? Usually, both dogs would be crated or both would be out. Seems kinda unfair that one gets free rein of the house but the other sits in doggy jail. Any which way you look at it though, it is cute and what a smart dog!!
Maybe he’s younger and/or less house-trained? I used to babysit for a family who had an adult Yellow Lab and an adolescent Black Lab (named Hooch and Kahlua, respectively) when I first started working for them. Kahlua was crated when they weren’t home, but Hooch wasn’t, because they weren’t worried about him making a mess in the house. When Kahlua got a little older and better trained, he was no longer crated.
I have 2 dogs and only one gets “crated” when I leave. I put crated in quotes because I really just move his bed into the 1/2 bath with a bowl of water and put up a puppy gate with the actual door open so he can see the other dog.
I have a NEST camera, so I can see what happens when I’m not there and this is what happens: Poncho will pee on EVERYTHING if he is not “crated”. Poncho was a stray and I think he was abandoned on purpose. So, he has very strong anxiety if he is by himself. It helps a little if he is with another dog, but really, he needs to be next to a human at all times. He’s lucky because I can take both dogs to work . I have a dog bed in almost every room because he follows me around the house.
The other dog does literally NOTHING when I’m gone.
My uncle’s chihuahua is like this. They live in California, so instead of locking her up he filled out a bunch of paperwork to make her an official emotional support dog so he could carry her around everywhere in a collapsible carrier. “The form didn’t actually say who was supporting who.”
Haha! They are probably supporting each other!
OMG my dog is the same way and he’s a rescue too. He has such bad separation anxiety and wanted to be with people so badly that he tried letting himself out, not by opening the door but by trying to dig through the wall. I now have a 12 x 15 hole down to studs from him going to town on the wall, and oh yeah he’s only 17 lbs! He’s better now but I had to put a barricade up by the front door so he can’t get to it plus I give him calming treats AND use Adaptil pheramone diffusers. That’s only on the days he’s by himself, twice a week he’s at a dog sitter so he gets plenty of attention. The things we do for our fur babies.
Our cocker spaniel is a rescue whose first owner had to leave him alone 12-14 hours a day when she got a new job, so knew he was miserable and found him a new home with us. At first he’d deliberately empty wastebaskets and mark all over the place, but with one of us being home nearly all the time and having Melody for company when we’re gone, he’s completely stopped misbehaving. I think he figured out that Melody could be his therapy dog, too!
One of our previous dogs, though, had MASSIVE anxiety. Separation anxiety, storm anxiety, you name it, he had it. We tried everything — a storm coat, heartbeat music, and he took doggie Prozac his whole life, but all it took was 15 minutes alone when a storm started brewing up and he’d go nuts. He actually tore one door frame off! Moving away from the Gulf Coast did him more good than everything else put together; he turned into a new, happy dog. It was an astonishing transition! Separation anxiety is a terrible, terrible thing for otherwise sweet dogs to go through. It can be heartbreaking to see an innocent pet suffer so badly with it.
My mom’s mini Schnauzer when I was a kid was well-behaved, but she was afraid of thunderstorms (and fireworks, which can be heard at my parents’ house from the racetrack in town). The only time she ever slept with me was one night when there was a thunderstorm and I was the only one home. As soon as the storm was over she was gone.
Ha ha ha!!! That is funny!
AJ and Laura – I’m glad to know I’m not the only one!! ?
I loved the happy freedom hop too. I do wonder what they got up to together. Shredded something. Or rolling around on an off limit human bed.
Smart poochie to open that lock.
Oh my goodness what a smart, sweet, and persistent doggo!! 13/10 very good friend.
I love how the prisoner dog sniffs the lock after he’s freed as if he’s trying to figure out out the other one did it.
I don’t know why, but “prisoner dog” made me laugh. ?
And yet he persisted.
?
We all need a friend who’s willing to bail (or break) us out of jail. That doggie is da bomb!
There’s a saying – a good friend will bail you from jail, but a best friend will help you hide the body…. 🙂
And a really good friend brings a shovel.
?
And your best friend already knows the best place to stash the body!