I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two dogs BC 16
months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on their backs, feet up in the
air during the day and all night long. They look so funny. I have been told
it's a puppy thing and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

Shell

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Mark/Shell wrote:
I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two dogs BC 16
months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on their backs, feet up in the
air during the day and all night long. They look so funny. I have been told
it's a puppy thing and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

My dogs all do it. It's cooler.
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I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two dogs BC 16
months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on their backs, feet up in the
air during the day and all night long. They look so funny. I have been
told
it's a puppy thing and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

Shell

Or maybe not...

Angel is 3 1/2 and still sleeps on her back with her feet in the air when
it's warm here.
Or on her side with her legs stretched out, forelegs together and hind legs
together.
In that position it is fun to watch her extend and retract her toes,
stretching and flexing
her feet while she sleeps...

When it is cool (or she has recently had her hair stripped) she sleeps
curled into a
doughnut shape.

And when she is peeved at me she first sinks backwards into a beutiful
lion-pose down,
then crosses her front legs, puts her head down on them and heaves a
put-upon sigh.

I will mention that poor Chewie, my first Airedale, a hyper male, NEVER
slept
on his back with his paws in the air. He had to be ready to leap up at the
slightest sign
of movement in the room. For that reason I think you're in luck, Shell: your
dogs know
how to chill out!

Laura and Angel

Subject: Sleeping dogs
From: hi (DeForest76)
Date: 8/11/03 5:46 PM Pacific

Well....I don't know if it's a puppy "thing".

Don't think so either. My 13 yr old still does it all the time as does Georgie
who is about 3.

So maybe
it's just a cooling thing for them.

I think that is a very astute possibility. I also think it feels good to get
the pressure off their spines and maybe even give their paws/ankles/knees a
rest.


Deb
Shi the Svelte
Georgie, Scurry-Stalker & Baby Lover
Hank the Tank

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Mark/Shell wrote:

I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two
dogs BC 16 months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on
their backs, feet up in the air during the day and all night
long. They look so funny. I have been told it's a puppy thing
and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

it's just something that some dogs do. my Boxer does it most
often when she's sunning herself on the front deck, or when
she's all warm and comfy on the couch.

http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvret...tie_couch3.jpg

elliott does it when he's trying to cool off. he spends a
good portion of the summer parked in front of his fan with his
legs in the air, cooling off his undercarriage.

--
shelly (foul wench) and elliott and harriet
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mark/Shell wrote:

Loved the photo Shelly, that's exactly what my two look like.
At 3am one morning I went up to bed to find my two in their
baskets with all legs flying and Doug snoring like a pig. I
giggled like mad.

it's hard *not* to laugh at them when they're spraddle legged
and snoring! when they do that, i'm always torn between
watching them sleep and poking them in the belly to get a
reaction out of them (yes, i really *am* mean enough to
tickle a poor, defenseless, sleeping dog).

--
shelly (foul wench) and elliott and harriet
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette

shelly wrote in message marble.net...

http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvret...tie_couch3.jpg


Remember: FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIEND'S DOGS PLAY TWISTER.



--Terri

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, HarCo Industries wrote:

http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvret...tie_couch3.jpg

Remember: FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIEND'S DOGS PLAY TWISTER.

i hope you covered Harlan's eyes before letting him look at
that. you don't want him developing an addiction to internet
doggie prOn.

--
shelly (foul wench) and elliott and harriet
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette

"Mark/Shell" wrote ...
I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two dogs BC 16
months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on their backs, feet up in the
air during the day and all night long. They look so funny. I have been
told
it's a puppy thing and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

heh cute!

Murphy can't, she's too deep-chested so her centre of gravity is too high,
she keeps toppling over.

I know of Newfoundlands who love to sleep on their backs - they're so broad
they have no problem with balance.


Rachel
(New Zealand)

"Mark/Shell" wrote ...
I know it's not a problem but can someone tell me why my two dogs BC 16
months and Lab x BC 17 months love to sleep on their backs, feet up in the
air during the day and all night long. They look so funny. I have been
told
it's a puppy thing and they will probably stop doing it as they get older.

heh cute!

Murphy can't, she's too deep-chested so her centre of gravity is too high,
she keeps toppling over.

I know of Newfoundlands who love to sleep on their backs - they're so broad
they have no problem with balance.


Rachel
(New Zealand)