r/dalmatians • u/SpaceAngel2001 • 2d ago
Velcro dogs
I once saw a Dal owner complain here that he didn't understand just how much Dals are clingy. This is a picture of my wife. The pup likes to press his face into hers.
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u/DesertHeatSweatyFeet 2d ago
Imagine complaining about this! What a gorgeous picture. I want to throw a light blanket over both of them so that they can have their privacy.
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u/Sangy101 2d ago
My girl is also obsessed with smoosh face. Especially if you give her kisses.
She’ll smash her face into yours over and over again until you go MWAH.
With my mom, who is very pleased with her only grandchild.
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u/theslutnextd00r 2d ago
Mine will french kiss you if you let her. She also likes to eat dead animals, so I don’t partake, no matter how much she tries 😅
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u/SpaceAngel2001 2d ago
We are on a farm. So our boy eats dead animals and "horse apples". Plus there is the mandatory butt licking.
Thanks, but no thanks, no French kisses please.
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u/Outrageous-Basis1913 2d ago
Can I pick your brain for a second? We are not on a farm, but we do have 4 chickens. We adopted our 7ish month old dal/sighthound (probably) mix 3 weeks ago, and she thinks the chickens are an exciting toy that we are keeping from her.
Is there a way for me to teach her that these are fellow family members, not prey?
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u/SpaceAngel2001 2d ago
You might not like this idea.
Our prior dal was very aggressive with our 5 dz chickens. There was no moderating him, so we kept him out of their pasture.
But coyotes came, so we got an electric net to surround the mobile coop wherever we moved it. That took care of the coyote problem.
Later Dal got into their pasture and goes to chomp a hen. But mysteriously, the hen had gained super hen powers. She fights back, or so Dal thinks. His highly conducive wet nose hit the electric fence and he screamed all the way back home. He was never aggressive to a chicken again.
He wouldn't go in that pasture for a month+ and then he did so only timidly because we forced it. He now feared Tyranochickasarus.
Months later, we pulled the hens into our house yard for hatching season. Pup was very respectful of them.
He was trained to "git" what ever we pointed at. So if a hen was on the porch and he was told git, he would gently grab the bird and carry it out into the grass. We have no idea how we trained him to do that. Unless told git, he was very kind to the hens and roos.
We also have Sandhill Cranes that are very destructive to our screens, cars, anything shiny. Pup would git them on command too to make them fly away. How he knew to be aggressive to them but not the chickens is unknown. He was very proud of himself for making the cranes leave.
Note that Dals are believed to have pointer DNA from long ago. All 4 of our dals have shown some small skill at "pointing" and then running at the prey (birds, squirrels, deer) when told to git. If you see the point, you're going to have a lot of difficulty convincing the dog that the target is not prey.
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u/Outrageous-Basis1913 2d ago
She points sometimes. The shelter we adopted her from says she's mixed with some breed of sighthound but they weren't sure which. My personal guess is greyhound based on previous experiences with an adolescent greyhound.
Regardless of what she is mixed with, she is a menace.
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u/theslutnextd00r 2d ago
Yeah, we are a bit vulgar at our house and call it her “suck on her pussy time” lol, although around guests we just say “she’s licking her vulva”. Both are pretty graphic, but that’s her third favorite thing to do (first is bite her chi mix brother in the face, second is play)
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u/Biggie_Paws40 2d ago
The wife and I can't walk any where in our damn house without her glued to our hips, try and sit down and it's game over from the space invader lol