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Carol


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It's been dawning on me recently that I'm not actually sure Eilidh realises she's a dog.  I'm sure that this is entirely my fault as I do treat her more like my baby than a pet.


She has these quirky little things that she does that somehow seem more human than canine. For example, if you are walking past her and she wants some attention, she will put out a wee paw like a baby reaching for her mum. If she jumps up onto the bed, she pats the duvet with her paw until she finds your leg before lying down right next to it.  Another thing is that she cuddles into the nook of your arm like a child when you're sitting and when she comes in from her last walk at night, she gets her pjs on and toddles off to bed.  If she's forgotten her pjs and is cold, when you put a blanket over her, she sighs and snuzzles her nose underneath it before nodding off.


I just wondered if anyone else has a dog like that.  Is she/am I bonkers?  Is it a side-effect of being childless?(human children) At what point do you have to draw the line and say, 'Well no, actually you're a pooch not a baby?'


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P.S. Please don't have me sectioned over this...I can change if necessary.



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Well Carol, you have a long long way to go to beat some of those who are definitely bonkers like those on the C4 programme 'It's me or the dog'!!!

Max seems almost human to us at home. He loves human company (never mind the other dog!), he adores snuggling in to one of us, and just so loves listening to what you're saying to him (& trying to make sense of it)!!! We think he tries to talk to us too!!!

I don't think you see a dog's true character outdoors. You really need to see them in the home environment.

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Hi Carol,

Ruby also stretches out a paw to stop us walking past when she wants a cuddle. If we step over it she'll roll onto her back with all paws in the air (her dad is a sucker for this).

I'm convinced she's not far from speaking sometimes. Strangely after she has her breakfast/dinner, she'll come and find me to say thanks. She just walks right up to me, stares, then walks off (even if I didn't feed her!)

Very spookily, sometime I wake up at night and she's standing with her chin on the bed staring at me from 2 inches away! A quick cuddle and she goes back to bed. (unless this wakes Bob up in which case the he comes over for a cuddle and they both wag their tails off the furniture until we are all awake )

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Carol, i am (human) childless too and definitely treat dave and daisy as my babies. 


dave does the stretchy-out paw thing if you stop stroking him, just to let you know you shouldn't stop.  daisy squeals if you stop and the only way to shut her up is to carry on !


i am always chatting away to them, indoors or out - peeps in the park must think i'm totally nuts cos i'm nattering away to the kids, specially when i'm walking them without neil - i've had some very odd looks !  if we are indoors, dave tries very hard to listen and understand what i'm saying - his head sort of tilts to one side for a while, then he gives up cos he realises i don't speak dog very fluently.


i even made them their own cups of tea the other day - i think i'm losing it so will book a room in the nut-house next to you, Carol !!!



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Ooh - Tree - making tea for your dogs - you will be the next one on "It's me or the dog" on TV.  Tea is full of caffeine - so I imagine you had a pretty active spell after the cuppa!


Carol - I'm sure it is to do with you having had Eilidh since she was a baby!  I don't think of ours as babies (also childless), but I do talk to them all the time!  What's wrong with that?



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Actually, Lesley, they were ok - not hyper at all but i won't be doing it all the time.  I got this from my mum - she used to make special cups of tea for my other dogs when she was babysitting them - in fact, i think i got all my dog-sense from my mum - she was as dog-soppy as i am but i have definitely got worse - not sure if it's my age or the greyhounds that are responsible !!

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