We look after a neighbours dog fairly often, he's a small terrier called Pepper. He has quite a few odd habits.
For one, he flips out when anybody posts mail through the letterbox, and i mean flip out. If a letter comes through he'll hear it, even if he's the other side of the house, run towards the door, bite the letter, and tear it to fucking shreds like its a death threat.
If you throw a stick for him he'll just cock his head on the side and look at you like "why the shit do you want me to get a stick for? what am i gonna do with it?". Sometimes he will trot off and get it, but he'll just come back with any old stick as if to humour you.
Strange, that if you say the word ball he'll look around for it, jump up at you, and nearly take off because his tail is wagging so much. If you actually HAVE a ball god help you.
If he wants attention he'll do the regular things like bark and paw at you in that frantic way that dogs do, but once when we all ignored him he went and sat completely still with his face to the wall like he was pouting. HE ignored US for a full 15 minutes before he finally forgave us.
He's great. He's about 16 years old, and now 100% deaf so he's a bit more docile now, he'll actually just lie there and let you pet him and stuff more now, really great dog

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