I'll start. Louie is big enough to help himself to half an apple pie my wife left sitting on the kitchen counter top. And amazingly, the sneaky bastage did it while both my wife and I were home. Must have thought he needed a bit of dessert after his dinner.
So much for the glass of milk and piece of pie I was going to have tonight.
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Mine's a little fucking rat dog. I wish it was big enough to be a real dog and eat pie off the counter. Nope, I have a little old-man-ball-hair-hound that irritates the fuck outta me.
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Posts: 2601 | Location: Simi Valley, CA | Registered: September 25, 2007
Bullwinkle was big enough he could put his front paws on my shoulders and look me in the eyes. I’m 6’3’.
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Posts: 6340 | Location: New Orleans...outside the levees, fishing in the Rigolets | Registered: October 11, 2009
Our last dog was a 75# doberman shepherd. He loved bread and was tall enough to take anything he wanted off the counter, which he did for a time. He got tired of my boot in his ass, so he learned not to do that.
He once found what turned out to be his all time favorite - poppy seed cake. Ate the whole damn thing while it was cooling.
Great dog, smart as a whip, totally loved everybody - except mexican gardeners. He had been thrown off an overpass with 9 others in his litter and would threaten violence whenever he saw these gardener types.
Which one? I have a Lab and a Scottish Terrier. I always had labs growing up, though the current one is the smallest (58# currently, not likely to get any larger at 20mos old now). he is also the best trained and the only I've ever actually trained for and taken hunting. But he can reach the counter without difficulty, though has only done so a couple times.
The terrier, on the other hand, is the smallest I would consider to be a "real" dog. 1 yr old, 20#, and sweet as can be, he likes belly rubs from children especially. Yet when a new person comes to the door, the bass volume he can generate is seriously impressive. I have seen some bites from the larger terriers in my line of work, and I'd rather be bitten by my lab, terriers grab on and then start shaking with all the might they can glean from their little black hearts. There's a reason they got sent down to kill badgers in their own dens when they were bred - vicious lovable bastards! But can't reach the counter without chewing the cabinets to pieces first.
Posts: 2183 | Location: NC | Registered: January 01, 2006
Rhino is about 120, Lami is 65ish. Lami the Boxer can get on the counter, Rhino is an Olde English so he's too barrel chested to stand on his hind legs.
The rest are Shih_Tzus.
Posts: 7358 | Location: Greater Indianapolis Area | Registered: October 14, 2008
I have a 160 pound English mastiff thst can counter surf on all 4s. She won’t stand on her hind legs to get stuff on the counter because she doesn’t like slipping on the hard wood floors. But you have to make sure everything is pushed back about a foot from the edge of the counter or she can, and will, come by and grab it
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Posts: 7796 | Location: Warrenton, VA | Registered: July 09, 2005
