My cattle dog mix has appointed herself manager of the robot vacuum. She blocks it at the threshold, baits it with a sock, and sleeps beside the dock all night.
Funny Stories
Original and reader-submitted funny dog stories. True tales of dog chaos, lovingly told.
The oak dropped every leaf in one night, and my shepherd mix Waffles spent the whole weekend un-raking the yard and claiming one red maple leaf as hers.
Every cold morning my lab mix Moose inspects all four heat vents in the house and settles onto the warmest one. The heated bed I bought him sits empty.
My corgi mix Winnie starts lobbying for dinner at 4:15 every afternoon. She sighs, checks the empty bowl, and stands on my foot until 5:30 finally arrives.
Noodle inspects every grocery bag that comes through our front door. Nothing gets past him, least of all the rotisserie chicken. The carrots are a formality.
Otis does not bark at visitors. He hands them things: a shoe, the TV remote, once a frozen waffle. Seven years in, I have stopped arguing with the system.
My beagle Peanut learned the word walk, then the spelling, then every code word we tried. He won the war. It is his walk now, and honestly, good for him.
Mabel learned 'leave it' so well that one night she refused to touch her dinner bowl until I said the magic word. Six minutes of staring at that bowl. Worth it.
My dog Biscuit steals exactly one sock a day, never chews them, and arranges them like museum pieces. I have stopped fighting it. Here is our arrangement.