What is with my dog?

Is his name Sally?

Is his tail’s name Sally?

Maybe, once or twice he heard something similar and learned to react in way that gave him pettings, no big.

Maybe when he was a puppy he was playing a hide and seek game with Sally and while he was counting, Sally hid in the one place she knew that he would NEVER find her? He obviously knows she’s there but just can’t seem to get her.

Maybe you say it like way to enthusiastic Like puppy talk my puppy still does that alot but its only when i say SPOT WANNA TREAT!! then he goes bonkers so do u give ur dog a treat when you say that? that might be why you make him so hiper

Who, may I ask, IS Sally?

It’s got to be some kind of learned response. Have you owned this dog since he was a puppy? If not, the previous owner might have trained him, intentionally or not, to have a response like that.

Maybe he is hearing “Where’s alley,” and thinks you are going to take him for a walk?

Absent a decent explanation of exactly who Sally is, we can only be left with the question: How did you discover this?

he thinks his tail’s name is Sally, and no we havent had him since he was a puppy. All of a sudden one day he just went crazy when someone said wheres sally

@mizkendall3939: Well you don’t know exactly what he thinks, but that is an option. His previous owner probably trained him to do that in response to those call words or something very similar. If it is causing trouble, you would probably be able to train him to not have that response, but it might take awhile to break a behavior like that.

Well, if you don’t know who Sally is, Why would anyone have even said “Where’s Sally?”

mangeoons, possibly for the same reason my dog gets excited when you ask her, “Where’s your brain?” Don’t ask. I don’t have an explanation. All I know is it started with a big misunderstanding.

we do love our dog, she’s a bit dingy, but is a wonderful dog!

@cak Wow. How on earth do people discover these things?

@mizkendall3939 – Our dog is named Sally. Right now she is downstairs sleeping in the front hall. She goes crazy when you say “Time to feed the dogs.”

Perhaps your dog is a friend of hers?

@mangeons – for us, it was a simple misunderstanding between my daughter and son. My son was convinced she was asking our dog, “where’s your brain?” I still don’t know what she was really saying. She was laughing too hard. In the confusion, by son held on to the belief that she was asking that question and he just started asking her enough, for the dog to latch onto the statement. I would love to know what they were truly talking about, but even my husband doesn’t remember.

What is great, though…is when the dog responds by looking around, with a completely perplexed look on her face. It just all works together!

@Darwin, has your dog been hosting parties at your house and not telling you? ;)

So, I was right. His tail’s name is Sally.

Start calling his tail Rosalee and see what happens then.
Seriously, some dogs just love to try to chase their tails and pointing the tail out to them is just like throwing a ball for them.

I have a feeling you’re saying the words in a way that excites yr dog. Like yr likely raising your pitch higher and repeating the same words. This could be making him excited which he displays by chasing his tail. Why not try just not saying those words. You want yr dogs to be calm and submissive, so try not to do things that would over excite him/her. Just like you would with a baby. They cue off our emotions and reactions.

We have to spell out words like, walk, dinner and treat (rather than say them) because our dogs get VERY excited when they hear those words. Obviously that is because they associate those words with something they like. This is probably the same with your dog, either that or you make her excited by the way you say it and now everytime he hears it he goes mad because of force of habit.