My Puppy Deserves an Academy Award - A natural actor

[Nik]

I am convinced that Diesel (my 7 month old ddb/pit-mix pup) was an award winning actor in another life.

I was working from home, he was in his "room", and I suddenly hear the most appalling mournful howl ever. I go running to the kitchen to figure out why he could be making such a sound. I see nothing for him to be upset about and I know he has just eaten because I fed him 15 minutes earlier.

So I think maybe he has to potty really bad. If I had to poop and was holding it I would probably make that sound in hopes to get some relief. So to the backyard we go. Happy tail wags and trotting into the yard.

"Go potty" He runs to the middle of the yard and I am ready to congratulate myself on interpreting his awful sounds when I notice him digging at the ground and snuffling his hole.

"Noooooooo! Drop it! No cat poo! Drop it!"

Sideways guilty eyes from Diesel and he is off and running all the while chewing and gulping. By the time I reach him the cat poo is no longer in evidence and he trots happily to the door to go inside.

Yes my 7 month old brat tricked me and disobeyed the drop it command. He deserves an academy award for this one. I was convinced there was a legit reason behind that awful howl.

When the trainers say "Always give them the benefit of the doubt and take them to potty" did they realize we might be dealing with master actors?

Even now he is happily, dare I say, smugly lounging in his room looking quite content.

 

[tmricciuto]

My question is how did he know a cat just pooped in the yard? Maybe he's psychic also. Hahahaha
Mine will cry to go outside and just lie down because they don't want to be in their crates. I really wish I spoke puppy.


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[Max's mom]

Don't let him kiss you for a bit!

 

[TricAP]

LOL! That really is too funny! Sounds like he is training you quite well! Mastiff's are masters of manipulation. Ours has us well trained too so you aren't alone.

 

[danielleconn]

Zoe is 2 and no amount of training drop it will get her to drop cat poop! I have tried and she quickly gulps. I can drop a steak on the kitchen floor and tell her to leave it and it's all good, but cat poop & I think raccoon poop, she is a fiend! But I have a vocal girl too, she roo-roo-roo's if she needs to potty, go for a walk, eat, etc. Now if all her needs are met and she does it, she gets a "go lay down" and reluctantly she will. Usually this happens around 8pm and she is ready to go to bed, meaning I must go too. But she doesn't always win her way

 

[Hector]

Oh lord the cat poop!! There's something magical about cat poop.

 

[gilles]

they can tell what is happening outside..you will be surprised!..my baby knows a stranger is walking on the street 30 yards on the other side of the house..the doors and windows are closed and there is no way he can hear or see anything...he just knows .....if i walk there he does not react if anybody he knows walks there he is alert but ok , maybe he lets go a bark or two..but if a stranger walks by then he goes mad ,,,,,go figure

 

[Nik]

Our back yard is right outside the kitchen window which is open today and his "room" is the entire kitchen. I don't think he is quite tall enough to see out of that window yet but perhaps he heard the cat burying the poop through the window. All I know is he got me good today!

 

[Nik]

gilles - Strangest thing is that Diesel's "alert bark" for strangers outside is the quietest vocalization he makes. It is a very low double woof and that is it. But it is also accompanied to him running to the window or door and standing in a very serious alert/posture (sometimes up on his hind legs and braced against the window if he thinks the threat is serious). He remains in that posture until I check and then tell him "safe". Once I have done that he goes back to whatever he was up to before and is fine.

 

[Nik]

Zoe is 2 and no amount of training drop it will get her to drop cat poop! I have tried and she quickly gulps. I can drop a steak on the kitchen floor and tell her to leave it and it's all good, but cat poop & I think raccoon poop, she is a fiend! But I have a vocal girl too, she roo-roo-roo's if she needs to potty, go for a walk, eat, etc. Now if all her needs are met and she does it, she gets a "go lay down" and reluctantly she will. Usually this happens around 8pm and she is ready to go to bed, meaning I must go too. But she doesn't always win her way

- Yup exactly the same with Diesel. He is so very good with "drop it" and "leave it" except when it comes to cat poop. Go figure.