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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (103981)	5/13/2005 6:28:24 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Well, my daughter already spent the money on the Bow Lingual, and we pretty much utilized it. Not used it up, exactly, but it takes lots of batteries, and we figured out what our dog was saying, so we're okay now. But thanks for the offer. Shetland sheep dogs communicate in a much different way than any other dog I've ever had. We understand the other ones just fine. Goldens have very expressive eyes and use their eyebrow movements to communicate along with their bark, so they are really simple. Shih Tzus really don't bark that often, and the meaning seems clear--yippity yip yip, pick me up! But Shelties are very private, moody, shy, friendly with just their family but especially one person within the family (me). Since they were bred to live in solitude with a flock of sheep, perhaps sheep can understand them better than I can. I don't know--but that would be interesting to explore. Anyway, the Sheltie is just a very weird barker. He is not one of those inferior Shelties who barks constantly at nothing--I've run into those at the dog park, and they are annoying. He is always trying to communicate something specific when he barks, and often he seems to be telling Mr. Grainne that if he comes any closer to me or the bed, he will get a big dog bite! Not that he has ever bitten anyone. He just has really strong opinions. We did discover one interesting thing. When my brother, who is a new arrival in this dog's life, tries to come into my bedroom and says something to the dog, he lunges forward and barks ferociously. But when my brother just walks in without saying anything, the dog doesn't bark. So I'm thinking that when people approach him and talk to him, he may feel that he has to prove that he is a big alpha dog? I'm still not sure. He's a real head case, as we used to say in the sixties.