Dog lovers, is this how it works at your house, too?
 

Leo seems to think "Mommy sitting at sewing machine equals me needing to go in & out & in & out..."... LOL! Anybody else have that "issue"?

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Yup.. Except since I live in an apartment, I have to take him out..

It must be a Golden thing! My three do exactly the same as yours. In and out in and out- all day long. Gotta love them. LOL.

Fortunately we have a doggy door. We installed it last winter because our 2 year old dog was driving us crazy, going in/out every two minutes!

yes, every time I sat at the machine that is what he would do. Could do anything else but on no, had to do this when sewing only.

[QUOTE=burchquilts;5285323]Leo seems to think "Mommy sitting at sewing machine equals me needing to go in & out & in & out..."... LOL! Anybody else have that "issue"?

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QUOTE]How would you like to have 6, my sewing machine is by the door needless to say.....................

I am so glad to hear this because our greyhound Bella loves to come in and out and yes I have to go with her ...so she loves it ... sewing at the machine means to Bella ..Mom can take me out!!
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Quiltinmama

Not at my house. When I'm at the sewing machine Wolfie knows it will be a while before he goes out again. I usually start sewing after he has had his time out sniffing the yard and checking stuff out. He settles down for a nice nap while I sew and when I'm ready to take a break from sewing, he is ready to go out again.

They do have a way of training us!

Mine knows that when I head for the studio she's in for a long nap. She has a bed under my desk. She lays down in her bed and as long as I'm in there she's napping! She's always been good that way.....

LOL If mine needs to go out, when I'm busy, I take her out and give her about 2' of leash. "Potty right here or forget it!" If the need is legit, she'll tend to business. :thumbup: If she just stands there and stares at me, I bring her back inside and ignore her (she gets the message).

I have four dogs and when I sit at my machine they want to do the in and out thing... so I made one of those vecro hanging fabric screen doors. Now they go in and out when they want and I can keep at my machine. :)

My dog learned to open the sliding screen door when he was outside wanting in. Tried to teach him how to close it but guess he only cared about getting in. Didn't care as much about getting out. LOL Sure do miss that dog!!

I don't have a dog but this is really funny. Seems like your dogs all have you very well trained!!

Pat in MN

Momma, You are just sitting there and I want to go out. My Dixie thinks she has to go for a walk to potty. She makes my husband walk her for 1.5 mile if they go out. Me, the walks are just short and sweet.

I can soooooooooooo relate to this, my two furbabies are in and out constantly. Silly babies.

Who said anything about "potty"?!? LOL! Leo just wants to go out & look at the squirrels & birds or who knows what he wants to do. He just wants to do it RIGHT NOW when I have a pile of sewing on my lap... or I'm trying to hold something just so... LOL!

I have 3 cats and a dog that can never co-ordinate their "ins and outs", so I just chalk it up to them helping me get my exercise.

A-hem! No, it's not just a "golden thing"....it's a "poodle thing" as well! I think what it really amounts to is a "I'm mad 'cause you're playing with that noisy thing more than me...what am I, chopped liver? Or what???"...or at least, it seems like that at my house!

Boy, you have that right! LOL! But c'mon... we wouldn't have it any other way!

Aren't Golden Retrievers just the best ??? Of course, any dog is a wonderful creature. Our pets become just like extensions of our family. We are on our 2nd Golden as we lost our 1st beloved one to cancer. They are the most loving, gorgeous creatures.

Miss Daisy is a nag, she whines and paws at my leg if she is in the studio till I want to wring her neck. I put a baby gate up so she can't get downstairs with me. If she whines, I call my DH on the cell and ask him to deal with her. Eventually she gets the message and takes a nap somewhere. There are positive things from out of work spouses. He adores her and doesn't mind and she doesn't do that to him. I love your sign.
We were working on refinishing living room floor - that blob is her bunny toy. It's hard to be mad at that face

I think it is a lab thing!!!! Miss Bess is lab/German shorthair and it doesn't matter what I am doing, she whines to go out and then has a two-bark "let me in, NOW" thing and everything stops, I go out, bring her in, say "Good Dog, Bessie", start back to what I am doing and there goes the whine again! I don't recall our son even whining that much!!!!! But we love them, the dogs!!!!!

Edie

When I sit at my sewing machine, the dogs think it's nap time. When I get up to get coffee or whatever I do when I walk away from the machine for a few minutes, they stay sleeping. If it's around noon, they go out and come right back inside, planting their selves at the door of my sewing room. When I sew, they sleep more.

Brie (avatar) only thinks she rules our house ..well she does !LOL okay I admit it ..we have 2 doors in our sewing/misc room so they are open when we are out there, so she can come and go as she pleases.. She also has a rug to lay on, her own personal pillow with her own personal quilt !LOL Okay okay so she is spoiled ! LOL I blame DH for that one !LOL <GRIN>
Plus the fact that she knows where we are so I think in her mind it calms her and then its NAPPY time .. LOL

My five (two Pits, a Beagle, a German Shepherd and an Australian Shepherd) use my sewing time to be extra-vigilant about alarming me about what's going on in the neighborhood.....including when one of their own cats gets up from a nap in the driveway and walks in the yard. That alone is good for letting me know there is major danger starting!!!!! We are on an in-out schedule and unless somebody is acting frantic, we stick with the schedule. (Something I learned as a middle school teacher!)

One of my three just cannot understand why it's okay for him to lay on my feet while I'm at the computer but NOT okay to lay on my feet while I'm trying to sew. I've had to rip out more than one seam thanks to him creating a "run away train" effect by pressing the foot pedal! I make him get out from under my sewing table and he props his chin on my knee and gives me the mournful puppy-dog eyes look that makes me feel like a monster. I finally made him his own special bed to the side of my chair and he's more or less accepted that as an acceptable compromise. My two girls are just fine "guarding" my room by sprawling in the hallway. Fortunately they don't ask to go outside too much; they're all really spoiled and prefer to be indoors as much as possible. They know that when they go outside there's a chance I'll decide they can STAY outside for awhile and that's the worst thing EVER in their little four-legged lives! So when it's potty time they hustle, the chances of being let back in right away are much better if they're quick about it!

We don't dare put a doggie door in, our five pounder will chase anything. So far she raised heck out the window at a bear in our yard on Memorial day, had to go to the vet after treeing a skunk because I couldn't get two of the quills out of his muzzle, I did manage to remove the other 8. I told my dh that from now on, he only goes out on a leash. It cost 140.00 to remove those two quills and she was pretty lucky because they were really small quills about an inch long(maybe she found the baby but the one up the tree was a BIG one, I have the picture). I live in fear of her finding a skunk. The only things she is afraid of have to do with sound; fireworks, dh's cellphone, timers and thunder terrify her.

Just got our new golden boy Axl last Friday. He's our fourth. The other three lived to be seniors. I haven't sewn anything since he arrived. Too busy potty training and keeping him from chewing up our stuff even though he has plenty of his own stuff to chew on. We live in eagle country so he can't be alone outside yet. Gotta go take him out. Hope to sew something soon!

Me too! Seems like weekends she wants to go out every 30 minutes!

We have 2 poodles. When I go into my sewing studio, the larger (16 lbs) Café au lait color immediately plants herself in front of the front door to guard from the UPS drivers. The smaller (7 lbs) black color come to the door of my sewing studio and whines. We have hardwood in there and she doesn't like to slip, so she won't come into the room to be picked up. NOTE: Last summer we put hardwood throughout, but she hasn't figured that out, yet. So she sits on the hardwood in the hall, but won't come into the hardwood in the studio. Go figure. Then I pick her up and she lays on a quilt on either my sewing table or my cutting table, depending on where I am. Are they spoiled? NO. LOL. They are company, though and we love those furbabies.

My Hunter would do the same thing. I once saw a T-shirt that said "My day consists of let the dog out, let the dog in". So true.

not just Goldens...Chihuahua's are nags. Tink doesn't bark much...so she thinks that if she just stares at you with her bug eyes that you will see that she needs to go out. If I'm involved with what I'm working on, I don't look over at her...so then she will start to bounce her front legs off my leg....poke, poke...heyMom...I want your attention.

Sometimes I will purposely ignore the pokes just to hear her complain....she actually grumbles. lol

I thought my Corgi was out to drive me nuts...the way he wants in and out.. Glad to know its not just my brat...

That's why we put a doggie door in out patio door.

Yes, Goldens are just dolls. I've had 2 & they were just the sweetest things ever (shhhh... don't let Leo hear -- he'll think I'm "cheating" on him... LOL!).

And does he do what Leo does? Leo wants out but when you open the door, what he really wants to do is just stare... kind of like when my DS was a teen-ager & would do that with the 'frigerator door open! I tell Leo "Either buy something or quit looking"!

Leo doesn't bark at all. He stomps. He gets fed up with me ignoring him & actually stomps... LOL!

Yes, you need to be ever-alert for those UPS drivers... LOL!

Oooh... see? They give you the "cute face" & you can't stay mad! She's darling!