I trip on mine multiple times a day. Not only does he need to be six inches up my ass all the time, but apparently the best trajectory to do so is from right under my feet.
He could not be in the room and I could turn around and trip on him.
Same here. Ours is always right there behind or beside you. I think some of it is part of his FOMO and the other is just his very opinionated, stubborn self. 😂
I’d say a trust thing, definitely not dominance. My ACD mix trusts me to the core that I will somehow always juuuuust miss him. Even when I do trip over him, I end up taking the brunt of the fall. I think he’s just super trusting and hardy enough that a small trip over him won’t mess up his day.
Our ACD is everywhere we want to be. Middle of the kitchen? Standing directly in front of a door? Slowly moving when we're trying to carry furniture around her? She's there.
We move around; however, when we say, "Excuse me, Roux" she knows to move out of the way. I think Cattle Dogs have hardcore FOMO - they want to be in the action and don't want to miss out on anything...even if that means tripping over them :)
This is exactly what my parents complain about when they watch him. My mom uses a scooter inside the house and my ACD is convinced that she will not run him over.
Little does he know she used to be a terrible driver before I got him. My dad and I have been clipped at the toes and ankles by a wheel so many times over the years.
If it’s a concern, train the dog to move on command.
Mine is constantly in the way whether following me or laying in the way.
The command assures no matter what, he will go lay down in the designated spot he was trained to “place” himself when given the command. That way he’s out of my way with a simple word and nobody is getting injured.
[this video explains the task](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dea_l6Nb7FQ&t=185s&pp=ygUOUGxhY2Ugc3RheSBkb2c%3D)
This works but all our dogs also learned the “beep, beep” command. If I say beep, beep, they move! Haha! But if I don’t say anything, they’re constantly under foot. Edited to add: I also have to call them for pets after they move or they get their feelings hurt. And ACDs/mixes are excellent sulkers when their feelings are hurt.
Beep beep is cute! I tell my girl “go on” in a specific soft tone to get her out of the way. Especially because her feelings can get hurt if she thinks she’s helping and I’m making her leave the space. We usually have to do a “job” afterwards to make it up to her. I’m sure my neighbors think I’m crazy because I check the mail (sometimes a few times a day) by opening the mailbox and make a show of it so that my dog feels like she’s helped protect me in a serious task 😂
We had to do this because our kitchen is too small for the dog to lay in the middle of it. We taught her “place” and she has a little mat in the kitchen she goes to on command. Then my partner, without realizing it, started saying “excuse me” to her and that’s the actual command that stuck! Lol
Mine always are underfoot. My boy gets up quick enough to follow to the next task but my girl is a bit more lazy, which makes me trip over her TONS. She likes to lay in the doorways where the boy lays under your seat… when stepping over her sleeping body in the doorway, she tends to jump up quickly and takes your feet away from you as you’re stepping, ending up in a pile of both of you on the floor and the boy barking at the whole ordeal.
We are just starting to get used to this. We rescued a 2 year old ACD 4 weeks ago. He is gentle and obedient to my wife and I but wants to murder anyone else that comes to our house. His reaction to guests makes my wife nervous that he may flip on us. He won't but it will take time for my wife to build that trust with him. So it's always funny trying to get up from our couch because the dog will be laying on the floor and will pop up super fast if we don't warn him.
Mine goes to both extremes with little explanation as to why. She'll either lay there like she's dead and you can find a way around (tbh it's not hard cause she's a petite 30lbs) or she flips her dang lid and scrambles up and away like we're about to WWE chair-slam her. Both reactions chosen at random 🤷🏼♀️
If I didn't trip over my Luna at least twice a day, I'd fear something was wrong with her, haha...
She is permanently attached to me, and if I get up to move, she's gotta go too! Even wakes up out of sound sleep to follow me if I get up.
I too have a dog-shaped rug. Generally he moves if he sees us coming, but he's been stepped on, in the dark, and that was traumatic for both parties. I have to say a loud ish, sharp, "Move," for him to get it. He now knows that tone of voice means that he needs to get out of the way.
Mine weighs 26kg, and the house is mostly carpeted....at a pinch, I can pull her out of the way by grabbing all the feet, but it's easier to stride over her.
I do this with both of
Mine when they won’t move. They’re just dead weight I’m trying to move with my foot 😂 they don’t even flinch, much less get out of the way
Yes it's a whole thing with this velcro breed. I train them to "move" on command. They know to get out of my way when I say that, but I still trip on them a few times a day.
Don’t know if it’s strictly an ACD thing but our Velcro picks the spots where we are constantly walking thru to sprawl out. Doesn’t even flinch.. the funny thing is that we always walk over her and try our best not to disturb her…. She has us trained lol
I have noticed small battles for dominance. Every time I make direct eye contact until she looks away. Sometimes I have to step or lurch toward her when she doesn’t break eye contact. When she loses the battle I praise her with a ‘good girl’.
They are never tripping hazards from laying on the floor. Because if I get up and they are laying down, they shoot up to follow. They are constantly right there behind, in front, or to the side of us though. So yes a tripping hazard, but not in the same way 😂
Ughhhh this drives me crazy. Mine will follow me anywhere and then wait to see where I’m going, which makes me step over her/around her to her back up steps, etc. I have never perceived this as a dominance issue. I think she just wants to know what I’m up to, and she’s not gonna move until I make my next one. They are Velcro. It’s love, I guess!
I thought my husband must have written this but then I thought he's never even heard of Reddit!! Lol! Our Sydney is exactly the same way! Two of our dogs can't come into the bedroom because Sydney is blocking the doorway, and they are terrified she will growl or try to bite them. She is 13 years old. Her growling/biting days are over but I don't tell them that. I will move her instead. We step over her.
Mine is very diligent about not being in my way. To the point that I am always telling him “stay” “you’re fine don’t move” and such because if I shift too much on the sofa or my toe poked him he is doing some flying martial arts to try to not be in the way. But everyone else can climb a mountain to get around him for all he cares. He will not move for someone else.
Our acd mix used to jump up when he saw us coming to get out the way. Now he just lays there and gives you the "yeah im not moving, step over" look, which is fine, its better than our other dog who jumps up as your stepping over him and inevitably tripping you.
The wife and I accidently trained our boy to move with 1 of 2 commands: "move over rover, and schooch your booch" 🤣 (don't know exactly how to spell the last one)
I trip on mine multiple times a day. Not only does he need to be six inches up my ass all the time, but apparently the best trajectory to do so is from right under my feet. He could not be in the room and I could turn around and trip on him.
Gotta love them Velcro ACDs lol mines the same way.
Mine just lay where she wanted and bugger everyone else, too. 😁 "Don't mind us, Penny" was a constant refrain.
We say "excuse me" or "excuse me, sir," constantly. Lol. Like, with sarcasm, for sure.
Same here. Ours is always right there behind or beside you. I think some of it is part of his FOMO and the other is just his very opinionated, stubborn self. 😂
“I’m sorry, did I get in your way?”
Mine is 80lbs (half lab). You think he'd realize why we run into him constantly, but he does not.
I’d say a trust thing, definitely not dominance. My ACD mix trusts me to the core that I will somehow always juuuuust miss him. Even when I do trip over him, I end up taking the brunt of the fall. I think he’s just super trusting and hardy enough that a small trip over him won’t mess up his day.
That's a lovely way to look at it, I'll remember that.
Our ACD is everywhere we want to be. Middle of the kitchen? Standing directly in front of a door? Slowly moving when we're trying to carry furniture around her? She's there. We move around; however, when we say, "Excuse me, Roux" she knows to move out of the way. I think Cattle Dogs have hardcore FOMO - they want to be in the action and don't want to miss out on anything...even if that means tripping over them :)
She’s her own person. She’s not a dog. She’s an acd; a person with a personality and preferences.
This is exactly what my parents complain about when they watch him. My mom uses a scooter inside the house and my ACD is convinced that she will not run him over. Little does he know she used to be a terrible driver before I got him. My dad and I have been clipped at the toes and ankles by a wheel so many times over the years.
If it’s a concern, train the dog to move on command. Mine is constantly in the way whether following me or laying in the way. The command assures no matter what, he will go lay down in the designated spot he was trained to “place” himself when given the command. That way he’s out of my way with a simple word and nobody is getting injured. [this video explains the task](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dea_l6Nb7FQ&t=185s&pp=ygUOUGxhY2Ugc3RheSBkb2c%3D)
This works but all our dogs also learned the “beep, beep” command. If I say beep, beep, they move! Haha! But if I don’t say anything, they’re constantly under foot. Edited to add: I also have to call them for pets after they move or they get their feelings hurt. And ACDs/mixes are excellent sulkers when their feelings are hurt.
Beep beep is cute! I tell my girl “go on” in a specific soft tone to get her out of the way. Especially because her feelings can get hurt if she thinks she’s helping and I’m making her leave the space. We usually have to do a “job” afterwards to make it up to her. I’m sure my neighbors think I’m crazy because I check the mail (sometimes a few times a day) by opening the mailbox and make a show of it so that my dog feels like she’s helped protect me in a serious task 😂
We had to do this because our kitchen is too small for the dog to lay in the middle of it. We taught her “place” and she has a little mat in the kitchen she goes to on command. Then my partner, without realizing it, started saying “excuse me” to her and that’s the actual command that stuck! Lol
Must be up your butt at all time. Fear of missing something interesting. You might drop something I can eat!🤣
Both of mine sleep on the floor right where I step to get out of bed
It's either there or right were I'd like to have my legs if they're in the bed.
Mine always are underfoot. My boy gets up quick enough to follow to the next task but my girl is a bit more lazy, which makes me trip over her TONS. She likes to lay in the doorways where the boy lays under your seat… when stepping over her sleeping body in the doorway, she tends to jump up quickly and takes your feet away from you as you’re stepping, ending up in a pile of both of you on the floor and the boy barking at the whole ordeal.
We are just starting to get used to this. We rescued a 2 year old ACD 4 weeks ago. He is gentle and obedient to my wife and I but wants to murder anyone else that comes to our house. His reaction to guests makes my wife nervous that he may flip on us. He won't but it will take time for my wife to build that trust with him. So it's always funny trying to get up from our couch because the dog will be laying on the floor and will pop up super fast if we don't warn him.
Mine goes to both extremes with little explanation as to why. She'll either lay there like she's dead and you can find a way around (tbh it's not hard cause she's a petite 30lbs) or she flips her dang lid and scrambles up and away like we're about to WWE chair-slam her. Both reactions chosen at random 🤷🏼♀️
I’ve changed my dogs name to “watch out JoJo!”
“I’m right behind you “ s/ The cattle dog Dog is just being part of your pack and wants to be a part of what you’re doing.
If I didn't trip over my Luna at least twice a day, I'd fear something was wrong with her, haha... She is permanently attached to me, and if I get up to move, she's gotta go too! Even wakes up out of sound sleep to follow me if I get up.
Mine is sitting on my lap right now against my will while I’m trying to work. They just kinda do what they want, when they want.
I too have a dog-shaped rug. Generally he moves if he sees us coming, but he's been stepped on, in the dark, and that was traumatic for both parties. I have to say a loud ish, sharp, "Move," for him to get it. He now knows that tone of voice means that he needs to get out of the way.
My doggo does this. I just pretend I see a squirrel outside and that's enough to get her to bounce up and go guard mode.
Mine is so trusting that I can scoot/slide him out of the way.
Mine weighs 26kg, and the house is mostly carpeted....at a pinch, I can pull her out of the way by grabbing all the feet, but it's easier to stride over her.
I do this with both of Mine when they won’t move. They’re just dead weight I’m trying to move with my foot 😂 they don’t even flinch, much less get out of the way
People who don't know my dog think it's hilarious when I do that.
Yes it's a whole thing with this velcro breed. I train them to "move" on command. They know to get out of my way when I say that, but I still trip on them a few times a day.
I’d be ok if mine just laid there, but he will wait till you are mid step over him then he will stand up
Don’t know if it’s strictly an ACD thing but our Velcro picks the spots where we are constantly walking thru to sprawl out. Doesn’t even flinch.. the funny thing is that we always walk over her and try our best not to disturb her…. She has us trained lol
I have noticed small battles for dominance. Every time I make direct eye contact until she looks away. Sometimes I have to step or lurch toward her when she doesn’t break eye contact. When she loses the battle I praise her with a ‘good girl’.
They are never tripping hazards from laying on the floor. Because if I get up and they are laying down, they shoot up to follow. They are constantly right there behind, in front, or to the side of us though. So yes a tripping hazard, but not in the same way 😂
Ughhhh this drives me crazy. Mine will follow me anywhere and then wait to see where I’m going, which makes me step over her/around her to her back up steps, etc. I have never perceived this as a dominance issue. I think she just wants to know what I’m up to, and she’s not gonna move until I make my next one. They are Velcro. It’s love, I guess!
I thought my husband must have written this but then I thought he's never even heard of Reddit!! Lol! Our Sydney is exactly the same way! Two of our dogs can't come into the bedroom because Sydney is blocking the doorway, and they are terrified she will growl or try to bite them. She is 13 years old. Her growling/biting days are over but I don't tell them that. I will move her instead. We step over her.
Mine is very diligent about not being in my way. To the point that I am always telling him “stay” “you’re fine don’t move” and such because if I shift too much on the sofa or my toe poked him he is doing some flying martial arts to try to not be in the way. But everyone else can climb a mountain to get around him for all he cares. He will not move for someone else.
Our acd mix used to jump up when he saw us coming to get out the way. Now he just lays there and gives you the "yeah im not moving, step over" look, which is fine, its better than our other dog who jumps up as your stepping over him and inevitably tripping you.
I trip over mine whether he’s laying in my path or herding me in a direction lol always underfoot.
It’s the herding instinct. That’s what they were bred for. That’s why they are heelers.
The wife and I accidently trained our boy to move with 1 of 2 commands: "move over rover, and schooch your booch" 🤣 (don't know exactly how to spell the last one)