dogs senses

[Hand Job]

Is it possible for a dog to tell when you are lying? I was trying to beckon my puppy outside to the toilet. She wouldnt come and I said 'its not like its raining or anything' (when in fact it was). Whilst saying this I rtried to keep good eye contact without blinking or looking nervous. However she still didnt come and I ended up having to hand ball her out. So can they tell?

[lankeela]

I don't know how they do it, but mine always know when its bathtime - they all disappear under the bed where I can't reach them. I try to make out I am having a bath myself, and attach the shower spray, but as soon as I go towards the first one, they have all gone. If I manage to trap one and get it in the bathroom the others seem to disappear up their own *rses! Even if I am thinking about how to get them upstairs for a bath they seem to know.

[andy-hughes]

As far as your puppy and the rain is concerned, she has a far superior sense of smell and hearing to yours - she will hear and smell the rain regardless of what you tell her.

[persianlady]

One of my persians has gloopy eyes and I have to clean them every night. It is not as though I have a set time to do it or anything, but as soon as the thought comes in to my head that I must do him, he KNOWS! He slinks off to hide. I just know he can read my mind!

[garner]

I think both Dogs and Cats have esp.Get flea treatment or a brush out and they are on the run.When it comes to bath time my dogs are the same as lankeela missing somewhere in the house.

[fredpuli47]

The puppy knows it's raining and prefers the evidence of its own senses, even if it understands every word you say .That's highly unlikely: dogs hear and learn key words, not whole sentences and constructions. Yours might hear 'raining' in the sentence and perhaps know that word, associating it with getting wet, but not know enough English grammar to associate 'it's not like it's' as conferring a negative! :)

They learn fast. One of mine is happy in the car but hides in the back if I happen to turn right at the roundabout on the main road that passes the vet's ! Once we are past the side road to the vet's he reappears.

[daffidazey]

I have the opposite problem with my puppy and the bath! As soon as he hears the taps running he is trying to jump in! If I shut the bathroom door while myself or the kids have a bath he sits outside the door and whines to come in!
Getting him out the garden is no problem no matter what the weather is, it's getting him back in that's the problem!! Lol!! x x

[fredpuli47]

daffi, your pup isn't a poodle,by any chance is it? Those 'water dogs' ,and Newfoundlands and Leonbergers too, are shockers for water.They love the bath. Poodles seem to head for water as soon as they can walk away from their dam.It's in the breed. One poodle pup we had headed straight for a pond, and dived in after the ducks, when it was barely 8 weeks! And as for Newfies, they'll run off for miles to find a river to swim in.

[Ava77]

My cat must think it's a poodle then, she's always desperate to jump in the bath when there's water in it. I have to shut the door while I'm running it.

If I'm in it, she sits on the side of the bath staring at me. It used to make me very self-conscious!