I have a pug, which means daily cleanings of his face wrinkles. He hates this. As soon as he sees the wipes, his tail goes straight, and he crouches low to the ground. He doesn’t like his lower face touched in general, but hates having his wrinkles cleaned.
Take shit out of his mouth.
Literally, most of the time. >.<
I gently pinch the scruff of his neck. He is a chihuahua. I can instigate him into a full blown attack on my hand by doing this and we do it eveynight before bedtime. I actually think he enjoys the fight that ensues.
Nothing. I like my dog. Why would I do something he hates on a regular basis?
The pug hates:
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Being woken up in the morning. He will go limp, get whiny, and try to hide further under the covers when it’s time to get up. My SO gets up and walks the dogs in the morning and the pug won’t move until I get up or my SO just swoops him up in his arms and carries him downstairs while he grunts displeasedly the whole way.
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Going outside when it’s cold out. He’s a black pug and only has a single coat of fur (so he’s not so shed-y which is nice). He hides under the table, squirms around trying to avoid the harness, and tries to sneak out into the living room to avoid going outside.
The bulldog hates:
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Having her nose touched more than once. Touch it once? Fine. Touch it twice, she’ll try and bite my finger.
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She also can’t stand having anything on her. I can’t rest your hand on her paw, she will remove it and place hers on top and will keep doing this over and over until we give up. She hates blankets on top of her too, just the opposite of the pug who will hide under the covers panting because he’s too warm.
My dog hates getting a bath, but that’s tough shit.
Trim her nails and yank (ouch!) the hairs out of her ears.
She is better about the nails since we started using a dremel tool, but the ears are still a struggle. She has been having chronic infections in the one ear, poor girl.
Do you pluck the hairs, or just trim them? Plucked hairs are more prone to…infections.
Naive Evian, have you tried pairing face wiping with treats or petting? Our cat used to hate getting pills twice a day, but now voluntarily jumps on the bed to get them because we pet her and make a fuss over her when she gets them.
Move them around on the bed so there is room for me too, poke Mojo’s dried out tongue so he sucks it back into his mouth, stop after two treats, force them out in the rain to pee before I leave the house, leave the house, stop throwing the frisbee before Kaia collapses, tickle the hair between their toes when they’re sleeping.
Leaving the house without her.
OMG the look she gives me it’s like I just told her I hate her, she’s the worst dog ever and I will never be seeing her again.
Daily? Wow. One of my pugs gets by with no wrinkle-cleaning, the other only needs it during allergy season. And yeah, she hates it.
Also hates nail clipping.
Other than those two things, their lives are perfect and wonderful and they love everything!
Grooming in general. Baths, nail trimming (hate, hate hate) brushing out tangles and cutting out matts.
Going anywhere without her. Not sharing my nummy people food.
Flea treatment. It’s a squirt from a packet that is applied to the skin just between her shoulder blades. She has thick fur which needs to be parted to reach her skin.
No pain involved but you would think that it is near-death torture the way we have to coax, threaten, command her to Come Here! Hold Still!
I have to hold her in place and scold her to stay still while my wife administers the medicine. It is only a small dab of a non irritating liquid. She handles needle injections more calmly than this stuff.
Well I can understand that. Luckily Blackjack likes baths. We take him up to the doggie day care place and cute chicks bathe him and give him a bandana and he loves it. He doesn’t go to daycare often since I work at home, but he even likes that because he gets to play with other dogs, and according to him, he’s in charge there.
This is the worst thing I do to my dog. He will shiver uncontrollably and whine, even though I drug him. Then he destroys the house.
Other things he hates is nail trimming, mouth checking, spraying with antiseptic on injuries. All I have to do id pick up that bottle and he will run. And it’s pain free antiseptic spray.
He also hates it when I blow in his ears.
Blackjack gets his nails dremeled when he gets his bath, but he doesn’t seem to mind. He’ll let me clip his nails, and he doesn’t like it, but he’ll sit there and take it because he’d chew off his own paw if I told him to. But when I clip my own toenails he freaks out. The other day he kept trying to stop me from doing it. I got him calm and lying down, but he turned his head away every time I clipped a nail. Gotta say it again, this is the best dog ever!
One of my dogs doesn’t really like the bath. Runs and hides if I don’t do him first. Although he is fine once I get him in the sink.
I could pull out my eldest dog’s teeth out with pliers and he would just open wide as long as I was around him. When I have to groom, snip his nails and clean out his ears, he just lays down and sighs as if this is the best thing that ever happened to him. Weird dog.
Clean his ears, get his harness on him, and trim his toe nails.
I have to corner him to get to his ears, this involves me walking towards the door, he races ahead of me, just as I get to him he does a backwards shimmy, I step back and corral him to the door, he spins around, I trap him in the corner and he finally gives up.
To get his harness on him usually takes two or three of us. It involves chasing him out from under the dining room table, chasing him around the living room and finally cornering him behind the chair or at the door. Sometimes he will growl, and it’s amazing the tiny spaces he can get that fat little body through to escape. Once caught he will just stand there. He likes to go, he just doesn’t like getting dressed.
Toenails.
First I have to catch him, then get the harness on him. Nobody in the family will help me trim them, so I drive him to my friends house, plop his fat ass up on the tailgate and I hold him while she clips. The entire process is growl, clip, growl, clip, x 20. Then I hold her dogs while she clips their nails. No growling, just face licks. If I take him to the vet it usually takes three people to do it and I have to leave the room. He behaves better if I’m not there. Once again, it’s growl, clip, x 20.
He is the weirdest dog I have ever had. I took him everywhere when he was a pup, did everything to socialize him and handle him. I guess it’s the shar pei in him. He doesn’t like very many people, doesn’t like to be handled, he’s not affectionate. He follows me everywhere though, and if I’m not home he hangs with my son. If neither of us is home he curls up behind my son’s computer chair. The only other person he likes is my mother. If I pet him for too long he’ll walk away.
Even if I hand him a treat he will sniff is suspiciously, look at me, sniff it some more and maybe take it. if I toss treats on the rug he’ll eat them. He doesn’t trust me because sometimes I put pills in his treat. Then he looks at me like I tried to kill him.
Never had a dog like him. He makes me feel like a bad mom.
She is a lab and has ceruminous gland issues. Vet #1 says to try and remove the hairs to cut down on the moisture in her ear, vet #2 (same practice, younger) doesn’t think it makes a difference.
This is the first dog I have had to do this for, none of the others ever had any problems. Her right ear only needs regular cleaning and I pull the hair on that ear as well. The last infection was sent out for culture to determine antibiotic susceptibility because we couldn’t seem to get rid of it for more than a week or two. We are currently on a stronger antibiotic and a different anti-inflammatory drop.