Shpanky

[azurelunatic]

So my aunt's been trying to teach this shelter dog, Spence, some manners. See, she has this internship thing going on, and part of the internship is to train a dog, and include a before and after video. Her first dog, the Snowball from Hell, was a great trainee dog and took well to the training. However, her video skillz were not up to muster (the tape ran out on the camera) and she had to re-do. Thus, Spence.

When she brought Spence home for the evening a few days ago, raranax promptly dubbed him Shpanky.

The existing dogs do not get on with him so well. He's much improved: he used to jump up on people, barge through doors, nip, leap on furniture, and a host of other obnoxious little behaviors. Now, he merely does up-skirt nosing, tries to hump the poodle (my uncle says that the poodle only lets Deacon hump him because Deacon licks his dick first, and there is some merit to this observation), nips occasionally, stands on his hind legs but doesn't put his paws on people, sometimes puts his feet up on things, and sometimes takes a while to sit before going through a door.

	(not) behaving Shpanky the shelter dog outside
	Bitey Shpanky. The poodle puts up with a lot.

Comments

[marta.livejournal.com]

We know that move!!! We call it "the porkchop" (used as a verb and a noun). As in "mmmm... tastes like pork chop" - which was the caption another LJ'er put on her picture of her dog doing that.

In order to be "the porkchop" (or be described as "porkchoping"), one dog must go up to another dog's hind leg and gnaw on it or bite it (or bite it and run away) in such as way as to a) topple the other dog, if possible and/or b) get the other dog to chase/play/give all attention solely to him or her.

P.S. SO CUTE SO CUTE SO CUTE

[azurelunatic]

Spence has not quite yet mastered the art of playing nicely.