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Related: About this forumYoshi finally figuring out that the dog bed is for HIM to lay on
Rather than a bed for his toys. He still keeps putting his Christmas present bear in the bed though the second he's done playing with it, it rolls off or I move it off the bed. I had to put his binkie on the bed so he'd know he was supposed to lay down on it.
I took these from about halfway down the staircase so I could sneak up on him snoozing with his squeaky goose...
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)He's gorgeous... and his toys are cool.
Glad he's getting closer to sleeping on his new bed... they are so funny about things!
Thanks for posting... love the pics...
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)and leaves the rest for his toys. That's an improvement though since for weeks he was piling his toys in the bed and sleeping on the floor beside it.
Man, his goose is in desperate need of a bath, but I just realized that I think this is the only photos I've ever gotten of him where he has clean feet! Probably because of all the snow though. Now that most of it got rained away and the temperatures went subzero he's back to having dirty feet again. He's always in a perpetual cycle of getting his feet dirty and then licking them clean only to go back outside and get them all dirty again.
Freddie
(9,266 posts)When I retire (7 years God willing) we are getting our first (and probably only) ever dog. Probably a Pom as our friends have one and she is the most adorable thing alive. Smaller than 2 of our 3 cats too.
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)My third one. Every time the current one gets old and goes to heaven I have to get another one. I just love the breed though they aren't for everyone. Stubborn, willful, mischievous, territorial and ultra protective hairy beasties they are. I've heard Poms can have a similar attitude but at least they're pint sized. And they are certainly really adorable little poof balls. One of my old neighbors had three of them... they looked like long haired little teddy bears. Hers were really sweet, but the older one could be a cranky old stinker, but that probably had more to do with her advanced age. I remember the older one was named Cleo, but for the life of me I can't remember the names of the two younger ones. Nothing made them happier than someone's lap. All three of them used to tussle for lap rights with every guest that came over.
Wow, a first dog. All my life I've had a dog except for a few years where I was living in tiny apartments and just couldn't afford one... I could barely afford my little cockatiel birdie then. Now after all these many many years of having a dog I don't know how to live without one... what would I think about??? Funny that a pet occupies so much of your thoughts even though you don't realize they do. You know it when they pass away though and then suddenly you feel like your brain has nothing to do. At least you aren't pet-less and have your kitties. I just can't imagine having no pet at all. Even my little birdie went a long way in providing that mysterious something that pets give us and that we wouldn't trade for all the world.
LibGranny
(711 posts)BIG attitude! She also told us my husband had cancer before his diagnosis! (By her actions, not by actually speaking).
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I've heard that dogs are now being used to detect cancer in patients that no other medical science is yet savvy enough to find.
When I went to pick up Boo when he was a pup from the breeder we farted around the kitchen for hours just talking, and they told me that one of their males was able to detect cancer in a family member that was visiting... he acted strangely but in the same way he did when he was given a food bowl even after it was washed and sterilized that was used by one of their older dogs that got cancer, and he refused to eat or drink out of that bowl.
Dogs can sniff out things amazingly accurately. With all they can smell that we can't they must think that our noses are non-functioning bits that are only stuck on our faces for show. LOL!
LibGranny
(711 posts)anyone not in her immediate family but one day when we were visiting, she would NOT get off his lap or away from his side. She had never done that before with him. Within a couple days, he got his prostate cancer diagnosis. Dogs are truly amazing!
irisblue
(32,975 posts)handsome dog.
orleans
(34,051 posts)it looks so big and cozy, why not just curl up on it with him?
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)When I got the bed I wasn't sure he'd want to use it, so I got it with the understanding that if he decided he didn't want to use it that I'd still like to use it myself just as a comfy thing to flop on the floor on to watch tv. Even before I covered it with his binkie so he'd know it was meant for him to lay on, somehow he knew that it was meant to be for him... and he wasn't keen on me being on it. He was offended that I should have the nerve to lay in his new bed sort of the same way that he gets offended if I have to confiscate one of his toys to sew up a hole he chewed in it or when I have to gather them up and put them in the washer. I think that may be because I moved his binkie out of the way to put his new bed there, so he just seemed to know that it was meant to be his even though he didn't seem to know quite what it was meant to be his FOR.
It's actually the largest sized bed that PetSmart had, but he still barely fits on it. And it is nice and soft and squishy. I also just noticed a few days ago that it has a zipper on one end so that you can take off the material on the outside and put it in the washer.
I would never have thought to get any of my Akitas a bed since Yoshi is the only one of the three that even used the binkie. Neither Kato nor Boo wanted anything to do with laying on even bare carpeting. Boo liked his crate with the hard plastic floor, and Kato liked either the kitchen floor, the bathroom floor right in front of the toilet (Yoshi also likes the floor in front of the potty for napping) or the plastic chair mat that's meant to be used on the floor in front of a desk that I pinched from one of my old office jobs since for some reason they were throwing out like 5 of them for no noticeable reason that I put right in front of the apartment door with the idea of keeping that part of the carpet cleaner. This is Kato in his usual place in front of the door on the plastic chair mat so he wouldn't have to lay on carpeting or didn't feel like walking all the way to the bathroom to snooze in front of the toilet...
This is my favorite one of him - "helping" me make the bed (though he's in the living room since that's where he dragged the sheet. He loved the make the bed game...
I really regret not having a camera when I had Kato. The few photos I have of him I had to take with one of those throw away cameras from the drug store.
Anywho, since Yoshi was the only one of the three that actually liked his binkie to use as a bed (and a place to store and "guard" his toys while he slept), when I saw the beds at PetSmart and they were 50% off ( I love a bargain!) I thought what the hell, if he doesn't want to use I still would myself.
Akitas generally aren't cuddlers with the exception of Boo who loved to cuddle, but only on his terms when he wanted to cuddle which was usually just at bed time or when he came in the bed to wake me up by delicately sitting on my head. Kato never wanted to cuddle (he was far too dignified for such "nonsense" so I was really pleased to discover when I got Boo that he loved cuddling though only when he decided to cuddle with me rather than the other way around. Yoshi is more like Kato in that though he has no dignity whatsoever he's really not into cuddling though he's similar to Boo in wanting to do his version of cuddling (which is more like pet, tickle and play) than it really could be considered cuddling at bed time and when he wants to wake me up.
Ha! I just stopped to let Yoshi inside from the yard just before that last paragraph ad he went straight to his bed and curled up on it without even putting any toys in it first! I think if his Christmas present bear was in the bed though he wouldn't kick him out. I think since he got both the bed and the bear at the same time for Christmas he believes that he has to share the bed with the bear especially since whenever the bear isn't in the bed he goes to get it and puts it there himself. This is the first time he's ever layed on his bed free of the bear and other toys without putting the bear in first or gathering up some other toys to "guard" them while he's napping. He's weird about his toys... he either feels like he needs to guard them or that they need to guard something of his, like when he's done eating his dinner he surrounds the empty bowl with toys to guard his food bowl while he's elsewhere. Either that or he's pre-arranging his toys around the bowl that he uses as missiles to nail me with when I go downstairs to where I hide his chow bag to put his dinner in his bowl. I think I wrote another OP about how he likes to bomb me with his toys when I go down to the basement to fill his dinner bowl with his chow.