Does your Doodle act ashamed?

[Erin]

We left her for a few hours one evening, and I when I came home, right in front of the door, was a chewed up ornament from the tree.  She has NEVER bothered with the tree before!  I came in the house and saw the carnage on the floor and said calmly, "Hershey, what did you do?"  And I got a little scared cause she wasn't at the door to greet me....

  She was hiding under the dining room table and refused to come out.  I didn't yell, I didn't act angry (mostly, cause she didn't really destroy the heirloom and it could be glued).  But she wouldn't come out from under the table for awhile!  As I was picking up pieces of the ornament,  she finally came out and looked me, and slinked over to the corner of the room and PEED ON THE CARPET! 

 

Hershey has never acted like this before - despite chewing up a number of items around our house that she finds when we leave her.  It's like every 8th time we leave her behind when we go some place that she'll find something to chew, so its not a huge problem, but still we try to keep things on higher shelves :o)

 

Do any of your doodle act ashamed or upset after you catch them when they've done something they know they shouldn't do??

[shelly]

YUP!  Definitely does....  sometimes I know she's done something she shouldn't have just by looking at her posture when we meet... then I see the evidence....

[ej]

K is always getting into things, chewed up our sofa, stole things off the table, and from our laundry basket, ripping clothes off the rack...   But he has never shown guilt or remorse, maybe because we hardly ever raise our voice at him even when he is caught in the act.  The only time we yell at him is when he harasses Z and makes her squeal in pain.  Even then he would just stop and look innocent like "what did I do?"

 

Z being the very good girl she is has never gotten into trouble.  We can leave a plate of food within her reach, walk away, come back and the food is still untouched.  She is very aware of what is right and what is wrong.  Whenever K gets into something and we are not in the same room to catch him in the act, Z will be running to us, and giving us the guilt-ridden expression like "It's not me, I didn't do it!".  That's when we know K is up to no good.

[GBK]

Neither one is shameful!  Buddy knows he is being sassy when he steals the things he does, but he is so proud of it!!!!!  If you read Marley and Me, he does a form of the dance that Marley did when he had something he shouldn't.  The other day I knew he took my shoe from the front door just by how he was looking at me and the space he was in.  Sure enough, and the little one happily joins in on any fun.  She doesn't even know what she is doing is bad.  She has no shame, but at least with Kona you can walk right up and take it away.  You have to trade Buddy for what you want!