What does your dog do when they're bored?

[cassadee7]

Just wondering, what does your GSD do when they are bored? Like, if you haven't given them enough to do in a day due to weather or being busy... what behaviors do you see?

Saber has a pretty good off switch and can nap a bit or even watch TV for awhile, but if I go a whole day without some kind of training or mental activity for her, she:

rings the potty bell with her nose incessantly
paces between the door and the window
sticks her big black nose in my face and whines
talks to me a lot (very vocal)

and if this does not get my attention, she:

counter surfs
tries to lick dishes in the sink
opens my daughter's toybox with her nose and starts taking out Care Bears and Barbies
gets socks and gloves out of the hamper and stares at me until I put them on her nose
opens the trash can with her nose and slams it back shut, repeatedly (she does not TAKE anything out of the trash, but she knows this will get me up off the couch)
starts eating the carpet

So... as you might imagine, I tend to give her a lot of activity to prevent her from getting bored.

[GSDGunner]

Gunner likes to pull his bed out and whip it around. His bed along with a heavy blanket is in the hallway by the powder room. One night I could see he was bored. He was in the hallway messing with something. It only took a minute before we saw him dragging his bed and blanket out into the living room.
He does this by standing over it and pushing it backwards. Then once it's cleared of the hallway, he drags it out with his mouth.
It's pretty funny to watch. He doesn't destroy it, but you can see he gets a kick out of it.
He did it last night. Only now he has an additional bed on top. We had an old bed in the garage. It's one of those large pillows. So the pillow was on top of the fleece bed, covered with a heavy micro fleece blanket.

He went to town on it. And he really gets such a look of accomplishment on his face.
This is from around Christmas time. If you look at the door, that bed and blanket were in that hallway to the left.

[Holmeshx2]

I haven't seen you lately If it makes you feel any better it's the same thing with Jinx.

We generally deal with being squeaked at non stop with all of her squeaky toys, being smacked by toys as she comes next to us and shakes them viciously, the CONSTANT nagging to go outside just to sniff around (wouldn't be too bad but we don't have a fence so we have to be out there on leash) her running around jumping between hubby and I beating us up or just begging to be cuddled and loved on just her being super needy and the constant whining because she's upset she's stuck inside.

Oh yeah can't forget she will take a toy in her mouth and push it into our feet because as we move our foot from it, it becomes a game to her and the tail starts going like crazy. She LOVES to play with our feet however with hubby if he ignores her she drops the toy and does a full grip on his foot (he hates his foot being messed with) so then he yells or jumps or does some other sort of reaction and she starts jumping around tail wagging and all smiles because now dads "playing" with me she just comes to me with it and I use my foot and keep pushing forward on the ball and she pushes back, simple stupid game that she's thrilled with and I can still finish what I'm doing I don't even move just the ball of one foot and flex my ankle some pushing the ball into her mouth and she steps forward and i flex my ankle again.. so easy to please sometimes lol.

[Lilie]

Hondo shows two different behaviors depending on the specific type of boredom. If he is bored but tired, he'll attempt to get us to play tug or (his favorite) the game where he lays on the floor and we toss a ball into his mouth. Then WE get the ball and toss it again so he doesn't have to get up..unless he misses. This game works well for me if I am reading a book.

But if is bored and he has too much energy he'll grab a toy and wrestle on the floor with it...always ending up on his back with his legs braced against some type of furniture that he ALWAYS moves or knocks over. Then he'll jump up as if to say "Did I do that?"

[Courtney]

Drives me bonkers but will scratch to go outside when he was just out...stupid me will fall for it because I think what if he has to poop?? So out we go and he just wants to check the perimeter, stare at the neighbors, check the trees the squirrel are always in...this one is his "go to"

He's also a thief and will take off with random objects...like yours he will also lift the trashcan lid with his nose for a quick peek..he won't take anything out but lift the lid several times. lol

[Wild Wolf]

He drops his ball in my lap and stares at me for what feels like hours... like he is doing right now. Uuhhhggg!

[AbbyK9]

When Ronja gets bored, she goes to her toy box and pulls a toy out. She'll play with it for a little while, throwing it in the air for herself to catch, gnawing on it, trying to get hubby to throw it by putting it into his lap (he encourages this by actually throwing it, of course). When she gets bored with that one, she'll get another until all of her toys are spread throughout the room.

[Good_Karma]

When Niko is bored he paces. Gets up every time I move. Follows me around. Shoves his big head under my arm for attention. Follows the cats around. Shoves his head under my husband's arm for attention. Chews his bone. Heaves great big sighs.

[kennajo]

all of the above

[LoveEcho]

Echo talks to himself. First he'll start whining. Then he'll come to me for pets or with a toy... I work from home, but I can't constantly play with him I'll tell him to go lay down with his bone, where he'll chew on his bone-- but "mumble" and groan the whole time. And the longer you ignore him, the louder he gets. He'll go all day.