Greeting Rituals and others from your Dogs - Page 1

Just curious to know how your dog(s) greet you and other weird or unusual things they do on a regular basis.

My serious female has to grab one of her toys (generally the teaser ball) in her mouth as she gets so excited when she sees me and likes to act as though she's going to rip it to shreds.  It's the funniest thing.  And, if she cannot locate that, anything she can sink her teeth into will do. 

My other girl (whose half crazy anyway, but a lovebug) will spin and bounce.

What do your dogs do?

Also, I've noticed that Apache (the serious one) will put her toys into her food dish (bucket) when she's finished eating.  Savage will turn her bucket upside down.

My first GSD used to grab up a piece of my mail, and dance around with that in her mouth! I thought it was very cute. (I lived in an apartment at the time that had a mail slot in the door.)

My other dogs havent done much other than run to the door, wagging their tails.

Jack bounces right in front of me and "sings" to tell me how happy he is that I've finally turned up!  If I try and ignore him until he is calmer, he rises to the challenge and tries harder to trip me up!

Mine will become pretty vocal and will either run and find a toy to bring to me and then promptly run away with, or he will just jump up and grab my arm

My old male (passed away) would sing (if you wanna call it that) as soon as I made it into the driveway. My new male spins in front of me and dashes for his kong. My new little pup gets vocal as soon as I let her in, dashes in and out of my legs almost tripping me, she also collects rocks and deposits them in her food or water dish.

mine just all PILE ON and lick me to death.

I have one that brings a sock in her mouth and makes a noise somewhere between a growl and a whine. The other dog wags her whole body and sings. I 'm curious to know what other GSDs singing sounds like. I thought my dog was the only shepherd to do it. It sounds almost like a beagle's baying mixed with the husky "woo woo woo". Not a howl or a bark but really more like a yodel. Does anyone have a video of their dog doing this?

crimsonribbon our boy makes that noise when he wants somthing it crackes me up!!

Mine are all vocal when I come home.  Isis, my super drivey female will chatter her teeth like those denture looking toys you wind up and let loose and jump like a pogo stick.  Ronin will talk (and I mean TALK, moan, groan, yodel, chirp, etc) like there is no tomorrow and Loki will demand attention with barks and jaw snaps (snaps his jaw shut hard). I can hear them as I drive up.  No one would dare break in, too loud and noisy.

both our dogs bark at first; claire settles down quickly and angus will whine (a sort of extra loud woo woo WOO) for as long as he's allowed to. i'll ignore him when he does this and then he will stop. he's especially bad when he sees one of my brothers, my polish neighbor (who REALLY) likes him and to a lesser extent, my stepson and my other brother. all men. he gets very excited when one of my great nieces comes over, but mostly just follows her around everywhere. i find that with the excessive whining, that if i put him in a down stay, he will settle down and relax.