LEGEND My Dog ROCKS!

[fearsomefour]

Excellent questions.

From my experiences... dogs love routines.

Most of them love boats too even if they are not swimmers.

My boy loves being on our boat and he loves swimming. Our beloved schnauzer before him loved the boat too but wouldn't avoid the water... but he would avoid swimming. Boat riding for dogs is like a car ride times infinity.

Give a pup a routine and they totally love it. Our boy gives me the stink eye if I don't take him for a recon golf cart patrol around the neighborhood each night. He's more than 50% poodle... so he's smart af. But I've come to realize that all pups want a regular routine to follow... it makes them happy and I believe it makes them feel accomplished.

That pup in the video was stuck... now he has a routine/job to look forward to and it includes boat riding. Please... that's heaven for dogs. Even scardey cat pups... give them a few steady boat rides near shore and they all turn into to boat dogs. Even if they hate water.

Awesome reply, thanks.
It is very true.
Our current pup, a female German Sheppard certainly has her morning routine.
Wakes up with my wife.
So, if I get up first, doesn't matter, she stays in bed with the wife. Then, when my wife gets in the shower she sits outside the shower door and waits for her to finish. She never sits outside the shower and waits for me.......this just shows the dog has good taste.
Anyway, as soon as she hears the back door open she runs down and goes in the backyard with me to water the tomato plants and flowers. She hangs out with me until she hears my wife's hair dryer. She then runs upstairs so she can bark at the hair dryer.
It goes on like this until we are both out of the house.
Dogs certainly do enjoy a routine and have an amazing sense of time.
They know its time for whatever regular thing in the day.....usually within about 15 minutes. Pretty uncanny.
Its also why trained dogs are such intense workers.
Gotta love em.

 

[Loyal]

Dogs are a gift.