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Do yall ever give your dogs "passes" for behavior you might not like but they seem to enjoy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/dogs@lemmy.world
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I have a 1 1/2 year old Great Pyrenees mix. I call him my 98.6% good boy. He has great temperament, doesn’t pull on walks and is just overall a really good and well behaved dog so far by nature. (I didn’t know they made them at the factory like this lol)

But as a sit and watch him in the yard right now, he’s doing what GPs love to do. They kinda dig their own spots and just kinda like to gaurd the yard and he’s content. I personally have been trying to get him to lay on a raised dog bed because I feel like fleas or allergens are getting to him but he ain’t about the raised dog bed life.

I dunno just rambling 🤷 it might be something we continue to work on or I might let him have a pass since he seems to enjoy it. But I should mention that he does sleep with me and likes to burrow under the covers, which is another thing I’m trying to dissuade but sometimes when I’m in deep sleep he wiggles his way in and get away with it.

Do any of you give your dogs similar “passes”?

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

Dogs should be left to do what they are good at: just being a dog! Dogs will quickly fill your house with all kinds of nasty pathogens, after all they don’t take off shoes and coat when they come into the house. I can’t recall ever hearing a doctor say that this is unhealthy though; In fact, it seems to create a “better” immune system in children. The bigger problems with dogs, is that they are hypoallergenic, and especially as they get older, you may get a allergy against their skin protein, this actually happened to me, and I can probably never have a dog again.

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