Why would a dog do this?

My money is on a neurological disorder whereby the dog is dissociated from it's own leg.

. . . . and I'd get it off the sofa!

Doug

Just as well it did not have a stiffee! Could have hurt a lot more!

Nic

Restricted sensory stimulation?

Bored out of its tiny mind.

"Day saven at the big brother house and George Gallaway is starting to upset the other contestants" ... in strong geordie accent.

Rabies?

What? George Galloway?

Probably a kind of unwilled muscles twitch makes the leg moving due to the position on the sofa, probably.
The dog links this to an attempt of detracting the food he is eating.
Poor one.
He looks very nice.

A sort of variation of the relationship some dogs have with their tails?

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He looks very nice

Specially when he bares his teeth like that.

Wouldn't catch me getting involved in the dispute he's having with his leg!!

Very strange.

You should have seen my german sheperd teeth!
When we were playin i was use to pull her hair on her belly.
Wow!
She became very angry!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

My golden rule: never pull anything attatched to a dog. Ears, tail, belly hair , anything!

I don't like the sight of dogs bared teeth, not 2 inches from my face anyway.

Great members of the family though, when they're not loopy.

Maybe the dog's foot is injured and is causing him pain - the deluded dog thinks the foot is at fault for causing it pain so it attacks the foot? Well perhaps not. I had a labradore who would sit in the middle of the officers mess ante room or bar and lick it's balls and the colonel would call out 'Captain, your fucking dog is giving itself another bloody blow job, get rid of it'. Very embarrassing.

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Originally posted by markfs:
My golden rule: never pull anything attatched to a dog. Ears, tail, belly hair , anything!

I don't like the sight of dogs bared teeth, not 2 inches from my face anyway.

We were use to play very rude.
But i must say that in 9 years she never gave me a bite.
We became good friends in our wanderings in the mountains sharing food and water.
Only once she tried to bite my hand while i was trying to put the daily dressing on her wounds.
Five years of this life could bore anyone.
Btw few days later she died.

"A dog looks up to you; A cat looks down on you; Only a pig looks on you as an equal."

WS Chuchill.

He was very fond of pigs mind you. Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
"A dog looks up to you; A cat looks down on you; Only a pig looks on you as an equal."

WS Chuchill.

He was very fond of pigs mind you. Fredrik

I don't know about Churchill, but i still do prefer dogs.
The night she died i was out to meet my friends.
She waited for me and she pulled up her head the last time to look at me before letting herself go into shock and then leave.
Sometimes dogs are better than humans.

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Sometimes dogs are better than humans.

They certainly are. Humans are often hard to like, as are most aspects of life really.

EW

Next spring i'll try to bring home a new one.
Maybe a couple.
They fil up your days in a very special way.
Dogs are somehow selfish like all others domestic kind of animals.
They depend on you for food and water, but have a lot of giving back.
Next time i'll go for mongrel because pure races has become to fragile and brings many genetic diseases.
German sheperds suffer from a kind of degeneration of glands in the anus area that brings a slow but costant and terrible destruction of the organs all around.
Is very painful and there're no cures to apply.
Mongrels are more strong and i surely don't want to have another experience like that again.
For me and for the dog.

My Mother in Law (the Danish witch) bred Alsatians (German Shepherds) for years. They were great fun and very intelligent. She taught them to sing and gave them carrots as a reward.

The Danes like to excercise their dogs by having them run alongside their bikes. I'd never seen it done in England. I imagine it is the perfect exercise since they can lope along like that all day. Far better than a walk to the nearest lampost and back again for yet another night in front of the damned TV.

I'd quite like an English Bull Terrier myself. Built like a small a vaulting horse, with ears and a tongue.

Dear Nime,

I used to excercise my welsh collie [called Fred, of course] on my bike, with a three meter length of chain as he was not cat-reliable. Infact he was terrible cat killer after he was attacked by a Persian, which ripped his ear for about an inch. After that he was into cat-killing and maiming big time. He was so athletic he used to tug going uphill! And yes he could have gone on all day. He was one tough creature, and the loveliest tempered living being I ever met. I still miss the old man, nine years after he died. More than I can say for any dead human I knew.

Fredrik

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Originally posted by Nime:
My Mother in Law (the Danish witch) bred Alsatians (German Shepherds) for years.

Ciao Nime!
In my opinion german sheperd is "the dog".
I think they're wonderful dogs but, again, the race has been too much manipulated and now too fragile.

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
He was one tough creature, and the loveliest tempered living being I ever met. I still miss the old man, nine years after he died.

I do know what you mean.

All the Welsh collies I ever knew loved chasing sheep.
Most of them belonged to Welsh sheep farmers.
They were a serious problem for grazing sheep and they were always terrified of loose dogs.
Sheep would totally ignore foxes crossing their fields even when the field was full of lambs.
The foxes took no notice of the sheep and lambs either. As they snaked their way through the flock on their way to wherever they were going.
This didn't stop the farmer's shooting foxes at every opportunity. Ignoring our phone calls to tell them their own dogs were worrying their own sheep was a waste of time. It usually took hours for them to get round to collecting their dogs.
Apparently the standard method of training a sheep dog to be obedient (according to several N.Wales farmers and Border Collie breeders I spoke to) was beating with a steel pipe. Nice work if you can get it.

Dear Gianluigi and Nime,

This is getting confusing! I think I had better get a scan of a photo of Fred the wonderful, but off-duty completely not interested in sheep, Welsh Collie sheep dog, and do a thread here on his life. He was my friend, and I would not have faced life so well without him. Fredrik the human, if slightly Neanderthal sort.

PS: A relevant post will be found in the Turkey Thread.

Pure beauty.

That's by far the prettiest German Shepherd I've ever seen Gianluigi.

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Apparently the standard method of training a sheep dog to be obedient (according to several N.Wales farmers and Border Collie breeders I spoke to) was beating with a steel pipe. Nice work if you can get it.

Never need to do this.
Just a look in the eyes and everything was clear.