Any experience with weird dog behavior? Hyper-activity, unbelievable greed for food? Separation anxiety reactions?

We had a Saint Bernard that was terrified of thunder. 180 pounds of dog. I was napping on the couch one afternoon and a storm came up. The girl never left the rug in the kitchen usually. That day I woke up with the dog on top of me. We lost her a while ago. She was a great dog.

Haha…yes. Over the years I have had several dogs and the first was a huge, 96 lb. Coonhound named “Ruckus.” He was a Plott/Walker hound X.
Ruckus was the food stealer from hell and once swiped a 3 lb. pork roast off the counter and consequently ended up in the doggie E.R. with an acute attack of pancreatitis. That dog would jump through fire to steal food regardless of any punishments,

He drug me into the middle of a busy street to lick a melted chocolate bar off the asphalt once and his infamous campground picnic raid will go down in history.
I was walking him on some remote river trails here in the Sierras and I decided it was safe to let him off leash. Yeah right! lol

He put his nose to the trail, let out a whooping bay and took off like a lightening bolt.
About a minute later I heard him baying and thought ” OMG, he has treed something!” Heh.
He had burst into a campsite and scattered the people who were hiding behind their RV in terror while he howled and gargled as he howled with his throat full of food.

He proceeded to polish off their entire picnic lunch from the table. Potato salad, chicken, etc.
I was mortified to say the least as I snapped his leash back on and made feeble apologies as they looked stunned. haha
That dog….waaay too much dog for little ol’ me.
That’s what happens when a city girl moves to the country and decides to adopt one of the most insane breeds of dog known to man. lol

@Coloma That’s a dog lover for sure.

Yes. I have a Shepard who was adopted and rescued by the shelter from a puppy mill.

This is a list of weird things he does:

He sucks on a blanket.
He cannot ride in the car.
He has an upset stomach most of the time due to anxiety.
He is over dramatic. If he is excited he is over the top excited he will hyperventilate. If he is dominant he furiously humps like he has gone mad.
He sleeps with one eye open and if on a rare time he does go into a deep sleep he howls so loudly the first time I ever heard it it scared me.
He licked the electrical socket and shocked himself as a puppy.
He walks through doorways backwards, literally he will stop at some doorways turn around and walk backwards through the door.
He has no idea how to play he will just stand there and bark.
He only likes small dogs and any dog bigger than him he barks at and his hair stands up. Yes, he has confidence issues, even when I do things all the time to build up his confidence.
He is scared of fireworks.

He is 10 I have another dog who is 9 and is completely balanced and doesn’t do any of the above which proves that the confidence I am teaching is working and I have never treated either of them any different, so it is beyond me why one gets it and the other doesn’t. My guess is my Shepard has neurological problems.

I have a female dog who used to become quite hysterical if our male dog went somewhere and she didn’t. She would run around the house squeeling. She’s not as bad as she was thankfully.

Mine is terrified of meerkats…she’s about three times their size.

A childhood memory: my mom had a bowl of walnuts on the sideboard in our dining room. She called my brothers and me into the dining room to see which of us had eaten the nuts an left the shells on the floor. We kids were 2, 5, and 8. We had no idea what she was talking about and said so. A bit later she caught our dog cracking the nuts and eating the meats out of them. Who would have thought?

My two golden retrievers loved peas right out of the garden. If we didn’t shell them they could break the pods to get at the peas inside. They loved them.

My boy dog loves fruit. He doesn’t do it so much now but he would take custard apples off the tree, avocadoes (but the tree died for some reason so he dips out there), mangoes. He will eat any fruit. He isn’t keen on tomotoes though. If you give him some of that, he just drops it on the floor. Mine love broccoli and cauliflower stalks when you’re preparing veggies (plus carrot and pretty much anything they’re allowed to get their doggy chops around).

@Bellatrix I know. They’re supposed to be carnivores but they love fruit and veggies. What’s with that?

I don’t know! More weird dog behaviour. My cat loves bread and hot chips.

I wouldn’t think a cat would eat bread. Maybe soaked in milk, but with hot chips? That’s wacked.

I had a cat once that went nuts for Cantelope! He HAD to have a little bowl of minced melon. haha

@Adirondackwannabe The strange thing is how many people treat dogs like humans yet they really are a lot more like wolves than I think we want to admit.

I think when dogs have problems it is because of the way they are being treated in the house. It is like personalities clashing and what we are and are not teaching them.

I for example haven’t quite figured out if I am doing something wrong with my Shepard or if indeed he actually does have a neurological problem. For all I know my leadership skills for him may not be top notch, whereas my other dog is more laid back and much easier to handle. I thought I am doing everything right, but 10yrs later and he is still afraid of fireworks. I mean they are going off tonight and I had to stop typing so I could help him as he forgot his fear of the 10inch gate and went into the room he is not supposed to be in…lol

I know it sounds silly a Shepard who is afraid of a small dog gate but he is. And then a few bangs of a firework and he forgets he is afraid of it. But then when you want him to come back out he won’t so you have to lift him and all he has to do really is step over the gate. :/

That just reminded me of this dog my parents used to have that was an escape artist. We used to say she must of been houdini in a former life. We could put the dog in a certain part of the house and when we got home she would be there greeting us at the door. If there was any opening at least 1.5 inches the shihtzu could squeeze her body through it and be waiting for you on the other side.

On another day we were on the foundation of our new house being built, the dog was just following and she decided to try to jump from one side of the cement wall to the other, of course there was no floors just a foundation and a hole in the ground with the cement frame of the basement for the house. She jumped missed the wall and went straight through a basement opening landing 8ft below on gravel floor. She then just looked up at us and looked around jumped a few times like she thought she could jump back out.

If she could talk I am sure she would of said “that was death defying awesome, now get me out of here!” Luckily we found a ladder and got her out, she was completley fine.

Later on she would be reffered to as “houdini the death defying superdog” for the fact that while she flew 8ft down her ears were straight out.

She would also later on figure out how to escape the crate which so we would put her in the biggest bathroom but then she chewed a brand new bathroom door trying to escape that way. So we put the baby gate up and she got out. So then we realized she just couldn’t be locked up anywhere she didn’t want to be.

I’ll message you tomorrow. I’m gassed