Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 15
  1. #1
    Best Friend Retriever
    Join Date
    Jul 2016
    Location
    Ohio
    Posts
    517
    Thanked: 103

    Does your Lab sulk?

    Thought of this question as some of you posted on another thread how your dog will eat everything.
    If Rocco gets yelled at, he’ll go to the bedroom and won’t even come out for dinner. Usually takes till the following morning for both of us to make up, then he eats a big breakfast. LOL
    I’m sure it’s my fault, but he’s so hard-headed with some of his dumb behaviors.
    Just curious…..

  2. #2
    Senior Dog smartrock's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Carolina in my mind..
    Posts
    6,391
    Thanked: 4178
    Mine aren't sulkers, certainly not enough to skip a meal. Lark took a box of tissues off an end table the other day. I found her in the living room happily destroying the box, surrounded by a cloud of ripped up tissues. I probably used some language my mother would have washed my mouth out with soap for using back in the day. Lark just looked at me as if to ask what my problem was. Did not look vaguely guilty and certainly not sulky. She just hopped up out of the mess and watched me pick everything up, looking quite happy with the thoroughness of her destruction.

    Chase is a quiet boy, kind of an Eeyore thanks-for-noticing-me type, but doesn't seem especially disturbed if he gets in trouble. Barking in the yard when I've told him to stop? Not even when I go out and hustle him back into the house holding his collar. He's more like, "Oh, well, I'll be going out later anyway" and lies down on the bed closest to wherever I am sitting.

    I don't remember any of our dogs being sulky. Our kids, yes, our dogs, no!

  3. #3
    Senior Dog SamsonsMom's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2016
    Location
    NE Ohio
    Posts
    1,605
    Thanked: 1334
    Samson is a big time sulker. He is not happy with me right now because of Asher. Samson will sit in the corner of the sectional and just sulk. I feel quite guilty but Mr. Samson needs to come around and accept Asher. It's getting better but Samson still growls. So, I will see this sulking for a while I'm sure. I reassure him that I love him to the moon and back.

  4. #4
    Moderator
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Greenwood, Delaware
    Posts
    7,348
    Thanked: 7148
    No sulking here.

  5. #5
    Senior Dog Meeps83's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Wisconsin
    Posts
    1,917
    Thanked: 1052
    Maverick is a big sulker. Bear not so much, but if he sees Maverick sulking he will copy the behavior.

  6. #6
    Senior Dog MightyThor's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Bend, Oregon
    Posts
    2,024
    Thanked: 3035
    Thor uses sulking as a way to communicate that he is not getting enough attention. I work from home, so when he decides it's time for me to pay attention to him he crawls under my desk or curls up in my chair with a pathetic look and big long deep sighs.
    Mighty Thor, "So Much Dog", born 1/6/2014
    And baby Barley, born 3/9/2018

    Hidden Content

  7. #7
    Senior Dog BaconsMom's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    MN
    Posts
    2,636
    Thanked: 1369
    Bacon only sulked the last time Jake went on a long trip. He was convinced that I had sent his daddy away so I was not getting any snuggles or love. After day 2 he was stuck on me like glue.

    Also, he has mastered the big sigh. If he isn't getting attention, SIGH!


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    Julie & Jake, Bacon's Humans

    Instagram: @mrbaconthelab


    Born: 9/02/13

    Gotcha: 11/08/13

    Hidden Content

    In memory of Lily 1/1995 - 2/2/2012

    Hidden Content


  8. #8
    Senior Dog Labradorks's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2014
    Location
    USA
    Posts
    3,947
    Thanked: 2421
    Nope. Sam is low-maintenance and Linus is very much "action oriented" and not at all passive aggressive. If they get in trouble, they are over it within a second or two.

  9. #9
    Senior Dog POPTOP's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Illinois
    Posts
    10,985
    Thanked: 6722
    Although not a lab, Archie lets me know when with a hang dog look and a sigh that he wants more attention or a walk. He also uses the nose prod very efficiently. As for a meal, he's never missed one but does start letting me know when HE thinks it's time.
    Hidden Content
    Kissing Bandit

  10. #10
    Senior Dog zd262's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2015
    Location
    Raleigh, NC
    Posts
    1,280
    Thanked: 760
    Ugh the sigh, so much sighing around here. Bubba is a huge sulker. If I'm not paying enough attention to him he makes quite a fuss laying down on my computer and then eventually goes and stands at the bottom of the stares to my bedroom and stares at me and then loudly huffs upstairs to bed.
    Hidden Content

    Hidden Content

    Bubba's instagram: @thebubbinator

 



Not a Member of the Labrador Retriever Chat Forums Yet?
Register for Free and Share Your Labrador Retriever Photos

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •