The four foot plant!

[Irminsul]

Just to make sure Tasha's mom and I are not alone (and I know that Tammara is in this elite club): how many puppers do the four foot plant?

Tinki does it on our walks if I am not going the direction she wants to go. If for example I want to go straight, but she wants to go left. Full plant, leaning away, legs fully extended. Usually I end up picking her up. If I carry her for about a half a block, she will walk again. Or not. Of course she runs full speed ahead if there is a good reason (squirrel, labrador to attack...).

Sometimes just crouching down and gently calling her will get her close enough to get picked up. Pulling on the lead will make it worse.

So, go ahead, make me feel like I'm not alone!

[Sausage Mom]

I was SO HAPPY to read this, BOTH my dogs do this and refuse to go for walks...and since I'm not into dragging my dogs, we just run them around the house and in the back yard.

It really is quite sad how I can not move 11 & 20 lbs for ANYTHING, they just root themselves until I say "okay....let's go home" and they spring up and happily trot on home.

BRATS!

[TDR11114]

And I hardly ever get the four foot plant, unless Lady Bug sees a bird, or something that she is thinking about chasing! :wavey:

[Marion]

Solo only does this when she wants to go in another direction! Normally it's when I'm picking up Bacca's 'deposit' on a walk and she wants to keep going and I'm trying to pull her back towards me... Luckily it's not often as she's fanatical about her walks, as is Bacca - he never does the four foot plant, he's a terrier and they never can stand still - even when they'd like to! :D

[Schnitzel's Mom]

Schnitzel is terrible at this. It's every walk, every day. The reasons can be anything--doesn't like the current direction, just wants to stop for no reason, wants to sniff that very interesting light pole/crack in the sidewalk/trash, etc., she sees someone or something she wants to say "Hi" to. The list is endless. How does a little 10 pound dog get away with it? She's too dang cute.

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone else's dog stare at people willing them to come say "hello?" Schnitzel does this all the time. She'll look at someone while we're on our walk and continue to stare at them hoping that they'll talk to her. When they do, she goes nuts. My diva.

[kerie0408]

Oscar is guilty as charged!!!!

He loves walks but he does not always love when I try to take him in a different direction.

[Tasha's Mom]

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone else's dog stare at people willing them to come say "hello?" Schnitzel does this all the time.

Well, actually for me its on topic as Tasha does this while she's in plant mode--as if to say, "come rescue me from this mean human". Of course of people do stop she barks wildly and dashes around as she's not comfortable being petted by stangers. Silly girl.

My other favorite is if people stare at her, especially when we're waiting to cross the street, she'll just stare right back at them, as if to say "waddya lookin at?"

My favorite embassment is if she does the plant and I pick her up to carry her a bit (I know after 3 blocks from home she'll be fine) then people come up and ask if she's sick or hurt. I always answer, "no, just stubborn". :rolleyes:

[mamaw]

Cinnamon and Snoopy do the foot plant only at the entrance to the vet. Turbo doesn't do it.

[Irminsul]

My favorite embassment is if she does the plant and I pick her up to carry her a bit (I know after 3 blocks from home she'll be fine) then people come up and ask if she's sick or hurt. I always answer, "no, just stubborn". :rolleyes:

I even had a cop pull over once and say 'she sure looks too little to be that stubborn!' little do they know :circle:

[FourOrchards]

I voted Never...my puppy is perfect :)
But I would say she's always perfect. Most of the time she is pulling me and I get asked all the time who's taking who for a walk! :yikes: Probably looks like I'm walking a St. Bernard!
Most of the time Ally can't wait to get going and we never seem to be going fast enough.
So, perfect no, but wants to walk and keep it going!

[Tammara]

Four feet and one diva butt if I get insistent! :blush:

Trencye walks when and if she wants to, and not a moment longer than that either! It's as if she's a bratty toddler looking at me as if to say "and you can't make me so there :razz: ", and guess what, she's right. I have a pack I carry her in.

Try a double leash with one who loves to go and one who loves to stop sometime. Can you say uuuggghhh! :banghead:
Ruben has actually pulled Trenyce down the street on her behind until I asked him to stop, so I could pick her up. :rofl:

I have found one thing that works though, and you can't have him...
we have a now 4 year-old neighbor boy who LOVES her. He's been wanting to walk her since we brought her home. I let him walk her one time, and OMG, she practically RAN a mile. She was so good for him. Sunday evening, I let Andy walk her again, and she did it AGAIN. She walked the whole mile with him. No stopping. Ruben was in heaven. He got to walk with his sis for a change. Andy's Dad and my hubby says she's afraid he'll step on her so she keeps her distance. :razz: :D

[Schatz's Mom]

Schatz does it when he smells something he just can't resist like a squirrel! When he wants to follow a scent he does the plant until I either give in or pick him up and move on a bit.

[juliette]

I'll never forget an incident that Chris & I witnessed in NYC which made me realize that the stubborn four foot plant wasn't exclusive to Otto.

We were having lunch in a lovely restaurant in SoHo. Our table was on the second floor, and we could look down on the street below. We were happily munching and watching folks go by, when we saw a handsome young man walking a red dachsie. We both watched the dog until..sure enough..the dog decided it didn't like something and put on the four footed STOP! Needless to say we recognized the position of the owner trying to reason with this small creature to get moving, and we both cracked up laughing.

Chris always likes to say that it's vaguely ridiculous that at 6'4" and 200 lbs he can't get a 14 lb dog to cooperate with him!

[dachsie_luv]

:circle: Willy loves his walks, but does the 4 foot plant also (to stop & mark all along the way). :)

[KBanister]

Buster Brown pulls this all the time. Snooter, suprisingly, has never done it.

We have two kinds of walks:

1. A walk
2. A sniff

A sniff is where in a 30 minute period, we've only made it half a block because excessive SNIFFING!!!! Drives hoodad slightly bonkers. ;)

[Doxie Duo Mom]

Neither are perfect, but they've never done this. Rocky will usually run with Joe, and Clay and I tag along, sometimes though Clay wants to catch up to them however most of the time she enjoys it being us girls.

[Patricia Levi]

Oh I can relate to this...........Daphne is so good at the "plant" that I can not even put a leash on her. When we go for walks, I have to let her come off leash, she will stay right with me. Surprisingly this dog who will perform not one trick, has learned only one command in her life and that is heel.

So as I walk Gateway (now) and Boomer (before) with the leash she just rambles along with me. Oh and she is big on the sniff also.

My sisters dachshund PJ, who lives up the street. Is a master planter. He requires the pick up and carrie method when ever he comes to a curb or change in topography or what ever goes on in his little dachshund brain.

P.S. Please don't worry, I stay on sidewalks in the hood we go to safe parks and she listens to my every stop, stay and okay Daphne lets cross the street now.

[doxunzX3]

But you guys, aren't any of you stubborn German's Irishmen or what ever other man-men-women are just stubborn. I really am super stubborn and the doxies may be stubborn but not as much as meeeee! He heeeee heeeeee!
:dizzy: :razz:
So the four foot plant has never worked for them. :faint:

[Doxie_88]

Tia almost always does that! lol it's quite embarrassing....

[Frzframe]

but Mitzi is the one who does it most often. BUT, when she really refuses to go she'll just lay down. Talk about :blush:

[duchiesmom]

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone else's dog stare at people willing them to come say "hello?" Schnitzel does this all the time. She'll look at someone while we're on our walk and continue to stare at them hoping that they'll talk to her. When they do, she goes nuts. My diva.
Oh Karen- Duchie is the same way- she gets positively bewildered when people do not immdieately come to see her, squat and proceed to worship her cuteness with an appropriate quantity of tummy rubs. She will cock her head to one side if they do not obey the STAREDOWN, and then cock it back the other way as if to say "what is WRONG with you?" .

Being 10 and a former mill mama, she is not incredibly active. She will however run full tilt at ANYONE standing in our yard (I guess if they are in the yard that means they belong to her?) and slide, yes slide, onto her back so as not to miss the tummy rubbins.

And I must admit that with Sweet Husband being a horse trainer on the side, I have seen many, many manly men on their knees rubbing a dachsie belly. As well they should.

[oscarforevermom]

The reasons can be anything--doesn't like the current direction, just wants to stop for no reason, wants to sniff that very interesting light pole/crack in the sidewalk/trash, etc.,

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone else's dog stare at people willing them to come say "hello?" Schnitzel does this all the time. She'll look at someone while we're on our walk and continue to stare at them hoping that they'll talk to her. When they do, she goes nuts. My diva.

She sounds a lot like Oscar!! They must be born investigators! :)

We live by a marina that is about 2 houses down the block from us and Oscar has to sit and watch anything going on there. Any nearby neighbor doing anything outside - even talking - and he has to sit and watch.

Sometimes I feel embarassed!! :( . He doesn't want to move - just sit there and watch and I have the feeling they think I'M the nosey one!! I try to look in another direction till he's done looking.

[Bobbiesmom]

Bobbie does this when she sees a squirrel or bird...Normally, she's pretty good-natured & will start when I call out her name. Every once in a while, she refuses to budge, no matter how much I try to sweet talk her. Then, I pick her up & do the football cradle thing until she's over her mood.

[Oscarsmommy]

We don't do the plant, however, we have done the "stop and squeal like he was being killed" until we crossed the street and walked on the other side. I'm glad no one was around to see.

Has anyone had that happen before? He is normally so good on walks.

[Girrl's mom]

Does anyone else's dog stare at people willing them to come say "hello?" Schnitzel does this all the time. She'll look at someone while we're on our walk and continue to stare at them hoping that they'll talk to her. When they do, she goes nuts. My diva.
Girrl will go over to people and stand up on her hind legs, begging them to pet her! People don't always know what she is begging for and I have to tell them she wants to be petted and they do. 'Course some people pet her immediately so she doesn't have to do the "kangaroo".

[Schatz's Mom]

Here is one of Schatz's best four foot plants!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/cwharriman/fourfootplant.jpg

And what was causing it?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/cwharriman/plant.jpg

[SirOliversMom]

Connie that is a FABULOUS pic of the four foot plant!! Mine don't do it..heck I get shin splints trying to keep up to them! :blush:

[Tucker's Mom]

The common saying by our neighbors is one of two things: "Looks like he isn't into walking today" or "You must be on your way home". :D Just depends if you're coming or going. LOL

[nonnyd]

sam does the "plant" sometimes after i put him up n the bed at night. he will stay right where he lands..and wont move...i keep pushing him over...and he pushes right into it! if he wasnt so darn cute..i get mad! lol

[Suzanne R]

Jack rarely does it; however, Lexie is another story. She gets VERY insistent upon smelling that smell or checking our the fence over there or whatever, and when she plants, she plants!! Either I go where she wants to go, or we do the dachsie drag for a while until she realizes I'm stronger than she is! :D :D :D I usually win the "plant war."

[oscal]

Callie puts the breaks on when she is around other dachunds and foams at the mouth. Sometimes she does it at Petsmart, then she just slides along. Anybody have an answer for the foaming?

[Dackel-Mom]

Sorry guys - perfect pups here !! :Sun2: I can bareley follow them.......... they don't even stand still long enough for me to catch my breath. :lol:

[ame8199]

Zach will do that when we leave places he doesnt want to leave. Such as petsmart or earthdog events. We make our way to the car and he just stops and looks at me. I just tell him to lets go and tug a bit and he comes along.

He will do this anytime we are heading to the car. He likes to go places, just doesnt like riding. He gets very anxious.

[nmgirl98]

Oh hunny - I not only get the 4 foot plant but I get a 4 foot plant PLUS a hefty lean in the opposite direction. Belle's learned that she isn't going to fall over cuz I've got the leash.

[UnderdogsMom]

I was SO HAPPY to read this, BOTH my dogs do this and refuse to go for walks...and since I'm not into dragging my dogs, we just run them around the house and in the back yard.
BRATS!

My guys and Gal do not like stinkin'leashes. They do the 4 foot plant all the time... Underdog ( red smoothie) does the 3 leg plant, His little front foot is off they ground most of the time in HUNT mode......:Sun2:

[Ellie]

My guys and Gal do not like stinkin'leashes. They do the 4 foot plant all the time... Underdog ( red smoothie) does the 3 leg plant, His little front foot is off they ground most of the time in HUNT mode......:Sun2:

A little off the original topic, but you said that Underdog does the 3 foot plant with his front foot off the ground most of the time? Tucker does that too. At first I thought it was just something he did. You might want to get that checked out, especially if he has any muscle tone loss in that leg. (I didn't even notice THAT, the vet caught it) It turns out that Tucker holds his leg up because he has a bad disc in his neck and it causes mild leg and foot pain.

[UnderdogsMom]

A little off the original topic, but you said that Underdog does the 3 foot plant with his front foot off the ground most of the time? Tucker does that too. At first I thought it was just something he did. You might want to get that checked out, especially if he has any muscle tone loss in that leg. (I didn't even notice THAT, the vet caught it) It turns out that Tucker holds his leg up because he has a bad disc in his neck and it causes mild leg and foot pain.


Thank You, I will check into that.... Most of the time he does it because he sees a animal or a "Ball". :thanx: :hug2:

[Flipper]

For Flipper, I will have to go with Never-Almost perfect. However, the perfect DOES NOT APPLY. She is way too busy barking her little head off at absolutely everything AND absolutely nothing. I am actually condsiddering a barking collar with citronella spray as the water bottle is not as effective anymore. She hapily trots next to me, happily barking her hu-mom into a headache. Skriffel is another story. But that is only becuase she is not leash-trained and was adopted from a shelter about a week ago. But we are working on that with lots of treats and encouragement.

[maddoxies]

Valentin does the plant at the vet's office all the time.

More often, he is a "bark and charge" boy at things he objects to.

For the barking (indoors), I have had good success with the sonic bark devices. Rather than a spray, it emits a high pitched noise that only the dogs can hear (and is unpleasant to them) For now we have the table top model, but my brats have figured out the 20 foot radius, so we may switch to the collars. I like the sonic collars better than the spray ones because A: they appear to be lighter in weight for their necks and B: we are having good results with the sonic devices and I would rather not spray in their faces.

[EdieBird]

GingerSnap does the plant when we have to go through any door that isn't on our house. My friend's house, she plants. The Vet's office, she plants. The shop where we go to buy toys, she plants. Even going to obedience class, she plants, and she likes to go there! I think it's just a principle for her...must plant at doors.

And silly me...I get bullied by a nine-pound dachshund...

[longtimecouple1]

I said Coco does it for a good reason. Of course that good reason could be
1) Saying hi to an ant
2) smelling a weed
3) checking out a stick
4) trying to eat bark mulch
5) doesn't want to go that way (he pulls this one a lot, he's fine if we take him in the car and go for a ride to a walking destination, bored with the neighborhood I guess)
6)I don't wanna go!!

[Dachsiemom24]

Minnie does it at the automatic doors at PetSmart. I can't get her to walk through them at all. I have to pick her 7 pound butt up, carry her inside, and sit her down. Repeat on the way back out the door.
Harley does it to strangers, wind, dogs, kids, wind, leaves, etc. But I can usually get him to walking again with a little tug.

[MorenaChula]

Mocha will plant herself if she's smelling something interesting but I want to keep walking. She also does it if it's raining and I tell her time to go potty and open the door. She refuses to move.

[SamsonsDad]

Samson too loves the Quadro-Plant. It's a directional thing for him. Sometimes if we're in the back yard and I head for the garage, he quadro-plants. He doesn't very much like the garage. Lots of scary noisey tools and things that fall and crash. He hates it.

[jzutis]

Rudy will only do it if I am straggling behind on a walk and his dad has the leas. He will go about 15-20 feet and then he puts the stops on!!! Penny is very easy going and will never pull this trick. I do find it endearing on Rudy's part, what can I say, he just loves his momma!:Sun2::hearts:

I forgot to mention, if someone other than my hubby or I try to walk them they act like they are being kidnapped (dognapped) and will refuse to move an inch. It's a real problem, when we had them borded we paid for daily walks and they vet tech said they would not go... they are also BRATS! LOL

[heidi14dan]

When it comes to walks, Kosmo is funny. We have a park behind our house that we walk with him. We can usually do one lap no problem. It's when we try to get him to do more than one that he gives us the 4-footed plant. The problem is that he can see (or maybe smell) our house from the path. So when we come full circle, he know's he's almost home. If we try to continue on past the "normal" spot to turn home, he plants his feet, and doesn't want to budge.

So we've even tried to trick him in order to do a second lap but he must know the difference either by the appearance or the smells again. Because even if we go an alternate path to pick up on the main path, as soon as we get on the main path, he immediately wants to turn and go the way home. So sometimes, I pick him up and then put him back down a little farther down, or I have my daughter (or I do myself) run ahead and get him to chase us until he no longer thinks about going home. It doesn't take long, just another 100 - 200 feet.

We aren't used to this because Pogo (our 1st dog) used to love walks and never wanted to stop!! :0210:

[PetMother]

Macy hasn't figured it out yet, but Sammy has! When we try to take him inside of petsmart, or put him in the car. We have to pick him up!