Does your doodle resent your hobbies?

[Frannie & Callie]

As much as I love Callie, I do have a few hobbies she can't actively participate in. There seem to be 4 main culprits in Callie's eyes...tennis, reading, crocheting, and watching TV. I can get why she doesn't like tennis...she doesn't get to play (no thumbs), and she is either left at home or taken to the matches but not allowed to chase all those wonderful tennis balls. Reading, television watching, and crocheting are all done at home though, and usually with Callie in my lap. Why oh why then does she feel compelled to attack and destroy innocent remote controls, stationary books, and cozily piled skeins of yarn?

 

I KNOW I attribute too much human motivation to Callie's action, but the dog has removed a book from my hands before...that just can't be happenstance!

 

Has anyone else experienced their doodle targeting hobbies, and has anyone discovered a cure/balance?

[Kathy Spyker]

Lilly is like Yankee, as soon as I sit to watch TV she starts to bring me toys. If I ignore her she will stare at me and bark..so the whole time I watch TV I have to throw the ball to her.

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Resentment or jealousy – who knows but it’s too funny. Just sit down to read and Haley is in your lap whether or not he fits. Same if the cat is around. This is the worst. The cat loves DH and gets in his lap if Haley isn’t there to stop her. If Haley finds her in DH’s lap he pushes her with his nose despite the hisses and paw slap until she moves then he crawls into his lap and spreads out to keep Alice away. LOL!
When outside doing yard work it is hard to get anything accomplished. Haley brings his Frisbee to have it thrown. He will lose attention and I go back to work only to find him there again with the Frisbee. And, if he doesn’t get the attention he wants he resorts to pulling up plants, broccoli and cauliflower which have already produced and are just stalks and leaves and he pulls carrots and beets too.

[Frannie & Callie]

I do think that Callie is genuinely bewildered when I want to do something that isn't specific to her, kind of like how she's so confused and unaccepting when a dog doesn't want to play with her!

[Wendy and Eddie]

Yes!!

[Camilla and Darwin]

My main hobby is baking and cooking, so he absolutely does not resent it. :-) But he does sit right next to me and stare longingly up at what I am doing THE WHOLE TIME. Little beggar.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

Last week I was sitting on the sofa and was on my laptop (this is unusual as normally I'm on a desktop in the den but it was broken) and all of a sudden Sophie jumped up and literally sat almost right on top of the laptop and put her paw out for me to hold her hand (she always wants you to hold her hand).

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

That is funny about the holding her paw thing. Fudge is constantly trying to get me to hold her paw, especially in the car.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

That is Sophie's claim to fame. It is a big hit on therapy visits as she will give them her paw and they think she wants to shake, so they shake and let loose. As soon as they let loose she hands it right back to them. I tell them she doesn't want to shake, she wants to hold hands and they just smile .... they will yell across the room, "Look, she's holding my hand". When she gets tired of you holding one hand, she will take that one back and hand you the other one.

[Frannie & Callie]

I love this! So cute!! Little hand-holding girl!!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

We just left the dog park, and she wanted me to hold her paw all the way home. I have explained that I am driving, but it does not seem to matter.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

With me it's reading a newspaper or magazine. I think it's the paper...he wants to play with it and then eat it! He's fine when I'm reading a book, but that's because he can't hear that enticing "crinkly" sound. He has to be off my lap if I want to read the paper in peace....and then he just sits and stares at me.

[1np1tlyyqzo7v]

Nope. If I'm crocheting, my two just lay down and fall asleep in bed or one the floor in the same room. Same with TV and reading.
I guess since they get tons of attention at other times they don't bother us too much when we're doing something else.