8 Odd Dog Behaviors That Have Hidden Meanings 

Starbuck is pretty stinkin cute; is he a corgi/shepherd mix?

All of which described.. and sniff you up, then sneeze on you. One that's interested me is eating poop or garden soil. I have to assume from what I've read, it's minerals from the soil that's maybe lacking in diet if they don't care for veges perhaps. 🤷

@@johncain1727 Thank you so much! I think the nicest compliment you can ever give to a dog parent, is telling them that their dog is cute, LOL! He is a Swedish Vallhund. On the street though, the most common guess he gets, is exactly that: a Corgi/Shepherd mix because that is honestly exactly what they look like. I have seen the cross before and it looks uncannily similar to a Swedish Vallhund.

@@lydiawhitting5406 that is an excellent question! For some dogs it probably is a scavenger instinct if their diet is lacking. Although honestly, for others like Starbuck, it's probably just a taste thing. He also loves to taste soil wherever he wanders. My personal guess is that since the Vomeronasal Organ is in the roof of their mouths, he'll eat stuff around him, to enhance it's smell.

Truly love you and Starbuck thanks much u2 ur vids are very informative to the point short and sweet, iv learnt more in you're vid here than others iv viewed that have been twice as long, No insult to other Creator's All people absorb information differently and you guys are great teachers for myself and Hammer my bully x preschooler lolz

Probably because the sugar content of those blades of grass make them taste the sweetest.

Sorry for your loss

Wow! Haha, as funny as that is, it is also pretty incredible because a lot of dogs struggle to tell the difference between words that sound similar, so your dog must have been very smart 🐕

@@FurPalsFirst I had heard that dogs listen to the first word of a command. That was what made me try this. Knowing that “Salud” and “speak” would sound the same to my pee brained Harvey. It really created a situation where I could create a really funny trick.

my dog would sleep on my feet in bed and i could not bare the weight and the heat enough that, in my sleep, i would kick her off the bed and the thump of the landing would wake me. i got her to sleep on the pillow beside me and happiness reigned.

My dog does the same thing…! It gets where I cannot roll over at night …🙄

How wonderful, Charlie is keeping you safe (and warm!)

Oh Airedale Terriers! They are such beautiful dogs. And smart dogs too! I bet they were wonderful companions.

@@FurPalsFirst They were AMAZING. We were the only homestead in the area which was NOT harassed by a rogue Grizzly Bear terrorizing the rest of the area one summer. We didn't even know it was around because our forty pound girls kept it away. Every other dog in the area was useless. When we were building the house, our neighbour came to visit with her new baby in a pram. She parked the baby in front of the house in the sun and our girls came over, sniffed the baby thoroughly then they planted themselves one on each side of her and DID NOT MOVE until we had strolled around and finished our visit with the neighbour. They were well trained as companion dogs but the protective instinct was all theirs. One time we came home and there were three bears and two cubs raiding the next door orchard. We stopped and let the girls out for a bit of fun. Those poor, poor bears spinning in circles to keep the dogs in sight then the ran like H into the forest after the cubs came down from the trees. Just another day of fun and frolic for the two of them. I had dogs most of my life but these two Airedales were the most amazing, courageous, strong, sturdy, smart, loving and caring dogs I have ever had. They were actual independent thinkers who were in a genuine cooperative, symbiotic relationship with us. In fact, they were smart enough to leave the resident Moose alone but would always deal with the bears. Many of our neighbors didn't go far from their homes for fear of the bears but we went wherever we wanted whenever we wanted and were completely safe and guarded by these two forty pound dynamos. Would love to have one more dog before I die but ... apartment living and all that. Thanks for your reply. Cheers!

That is so sweet, he is so excited to see you!

According to my vet, dogs also sneeze when they are anxious or stressed out.

Dogs sneezing is them laughing.

​@@susank.9223Vets are uninformed drones. Read the nature of animal healing by Martin Goldstein.

My lab rottweiler smiles and sneezes when hes excited lol

Thank you for taking the time to leave such a kind comment, it means a lot to us 😊🐕

Thank you! Pasha sounds a lot like Starbuck 🐕 a grass-munching dog, haha! It is also just a guess. But I wonder if maybe Starbuck might do it to enhance the smell, too. They have an organ in the roof of their mouth that they use to enhance their smell when eating scent particles. So I wonder if maybe he eats some grass, to enhance the smell on it. But that is just a guess, haha. Most likely, it's just as the vet said, it's because he likes the taste.

My dog does eat grass normally but she does eat an abnormal amount when she does have to puke

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God created the wolf, man created the dog.

Hail Satan.

@@kubengovender5234 Yeah sure 😂😂😂

No humans are created in God’s image not animals

And thank you for stopping by! Starbuck and I really appreciate it 👋🐕

Thank you so much. For a small channel like this, it means a lot! Starbuck and I say hello 🐕👋

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And thank you for watching! Hello to you and your dogs from Starbuck and I 👋🐕

Thank you so much. Hello from Starbuck and I in Christchurch 👋🐕

Same! The sneezing especially, my pup sneezes all the time

Thank you, hello from Christchurch 👋

We're in Rotorua 🙂

Oh how lovely! Starbuck was raised in Rotorua as a puppy. I flew up there to adopt him and bring him home here. It's so beautiful I am sure your dog/s love it!

@@FurPalsFirst Christchurch is beautiful too. My hubby guessed that's where you were. Lovely to meet you and Starbuck ❤

Thank you so much! Hello from Starbuck and I 👋🐕

Poopsicles

Wolves will eat poop (their own) 🐺 and for good reason too, they need to eat the parasites in it. But dogs no longer need to (their poop is now parasite free). But for some of them, that instinct is still clearly there in the form of general poop eating. Starbuck will sometimes eat duck poop, lol. Trying to tell him though, that he no longer need to eat it, for some reason doesn't seem to work 🤔😂🤷🐕

@@FurPalsFirstsurely, once they’ve pooped, they don’t need to worry about the parasites anymore?

We rescued a dog that ate her own poo but everytime I caught her doing it I brushed her teeth, she hated this and that soon stopped her once she associated them.

Put a teaspoon of meat tenderizer in their food. It seems to make the poop inedibly nasty (no clue why/how). It's completely safe in small doses, tasteless, cheap, and it completely cured my two dogs after about a month. It's been years since I've seen them eat any poop.

Thank you! And nice spotting! That is one of the games on the "to-play" list but haven't yet played. Been playing a lot of Thunderstone Quest recently and do highly recommend that.

@@FurPalsFirst Awesome. thanks i will check out Thunderstone Quest. My friends and i played Darkest Dungeon and got destroyed with so much stress. It was just bad luck on our rolls. But it was lots of fun. The only draw back was that it took a while to setup and then to put away. Thanks again for your video. I learned so much and i will study my dog on a few things. 🥰

Oh how lovely. Shih Tzu's are very cute! What is his name?

Charlie @@FurPalsFirst

What a lovely name! My sister's dog is called Charlie too. You will have to give Charlie a scratch for Starbuck and I 👋

Thank you! Norwegian Elkhound's are pretty rare outside of Nordic countries. Is that where you are based, or did you happen to come across your pup another way?

@@FurPalsFirst my brother in law had one when he lived in New Mexico back in the 90's and fell in love with the breed. We live in Oklahoma and found a breeder in Colorado and drove over to get her. We can't imagine our life without her funny personality!!!

Haha I am sure you did. We have one Norwegian Elkhund that is a regular at our local Vallhund meet ups (they really do look like bigger Vallhunds! She fits right in) and she is the most beautiful dog. You are very lucky 🥰

Roofus could understand English as well as anyone. I just talked to him all day and used conversational release words and he figured the rest out. No leash in the city and lived to be almost 20. Long live roofus

Id like to add this aswell; when you start learning this language then you will be able to not only hear and understand them but also feel them as if you are strongly connected enough to move like 1, just like the packs they would have in the wild. You really can sense their senses if you are focusing on it.

Thank you so much, it is great to have you apart of the community!

He does do this and that is a hypothesis that makes a lot of sense! It is so funny how many wolf instincts dogs still have, despite the fact that they now live very safe and sheltered lives, haha! 🐕

I love dogs too! ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much for your support and kind words! Sometimes I can feel a bit self-conscious having a "strange" accent, and so this comment definitely means a lot to me & Starbuck 🐕

@@FurPalsFirst I have seen your other videos. Thank you so much for making them. Much appreciated.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! Yes, wolves are absolutely beautiful. Starbuck is a Swedish Vallhund and they are known as "Wolf Corgi's" so it is almost like I have a little baby wolf running around, haha 🐺

She sounds like a very cute & loving dog! 🐕

Haha I know, right! I was like, why does he always turn away from me?! I wish I had known sooner that he was trying to protect me 🥰

I agree, I was honestly so relieved when I discovered it was normal. It's nice to learn that other dogs do it too 🐕

Thank you! I have recently started Starbuck on agility. I hope he can one day be as good as your Corgis that I can see in your videos 🐕

@@FurPalsFirst My current Corgi Dream is a COVID dog and even at 4 years old is still not quite ready for me to publicize her agility videos just yet. (They are quite hilarious - I do post them sometimes to our facebook friends.)

Haha and plus I am sure they are so cute as well. When she is ready, in her own time, she will be a pro 🐕

Your cat sounds so lovely! And also, thank you for checking if a dog says YES before patting them, that is a wonderful thing to do 🐕

Thank you so much, that is so nice of you! Starbuck & I really glad you liked it. Hello from both of us 👋🐕

Haha it sounds like she has definitely found her favorite spot! 😊

Oh wow! That is very cool to meet another Vallhund NZ family, hello to you & Atlas 🐕 are you in the FB group? Starbuck actually came from Rotorua - the Vallarity family.

@@FurPalsFirst OH, I think Atlas' Mum is half Vallarity. That'll be the similarity I'm seeing. Yep we're in the FB group 😊

That explains it! They are probably related 😊 does Atlas have a tail? It was 50/50 for tail/no tail for Starbuck & his siblings (he doesn't even have a stump, lol!)

@@FurPalsFirst Yeah maybe they're distant cousins or something 😂 he's got a tail, not super curly like a lot of them though.

Thank you! Always great to meet another board game fan!

She's wrong on this one.

My experiences has been the same as she explained in the video. I believe that yours wasn't, all dogs are different.

If I had to guess, I would guess it is because our feet have the most sweat glands per inch of anywhere on our bodies. Your shoes will have a lot of pheromones on them since they are secreted through our sweat glands, regardless of whether we sweat or not. And so your dogs really loved your smell!

Thank you! He is a Swedish Vallhund. Here is a pure bred, but they look a lot like a Corgi cross don't they 🐕

Thank you so much! And Starbuck is a Swedish Vallhund. Hello from both of us in New Zealand 👋 edit: also just to add, Vallhunds are herding dogs. That is why they are surprisingly common in New Zealand. We don't have many predators in the wild, so we have less hunting dogs, but we have LOTS of farmland, so we have lots of herding dogs 🐕 about half of his siblings now live on farms 🐑