I just laugh when I read posts on this site... the more I read...the more I realize a lot of the funny stuff Jackson does is just due to the fact he is  a GSP.  I wanted to make a post of some of the funny habits he has....maybe we can learn which quirks our GSPs have in common and which ones are just their own funny personality traits....

Jackson collects things in the backyard when my husband is working on the boat he is restoring.  He brings it to his spot and hoards (hides) it there.  sometimes he digs and things get burried too.  We do our best to keep everything up, but it is not too hard for him find something to steal.

 Jackson refuses to carry any donut style toy anyway but this way.  If he picks it up the otehr way (so he can actually see)  he will drop it and then adjust it around his nose in front of his eyes.  He is such a clown.

He also likes evening ear and face cleanings from his brother Sanchez.....(sometimes if Jackson is tired enough the whole body gets a wash) gross I know...but I guess he stays clean.

He loves to look out the window for squirrels and also for dad...since he comes home after I do....

He also must sleep with stuffed animals as I posted in the sacks out page..... The list could go on...but I figured I would see what others have to say. I find GSP stories so amusing!! 

Hogan will not poop unless he has something up off of the ground to poop on.

During the summer months, he will back up to a bush and hang it in the branches.

This winter he has been in heaven with all of our snow. He just runs to the top of one of our many piles of snow and lets it go.

Hope I did not paint a picture to digusting.

My sister and brother in law had a lab that did the same thing.

They had an embarassing moment one time at dog beach in San Diego. They took their lab, "Rock" down there early one morning to run. They almost had the beach to themselves. No dogs, just one lone guy way down the beach, sitting reading a book.

Well my sister and brother in law let the lab go for a run and he descided it was time to unload, and low and behold, not many bushes to poop on at the beach. Well "Rock" the lab, spotted the poor guy down the beach minding his own business reading and enjoying the peacefulness of the morning.

Yup, and along comes "Rock" with a job to do.

On the poor guys shoulder!!!!

Spot brings us something every time we come home.  Whatever he can find at a moments notice.  Could be a toy or a bone.  Sometimes even a piece of trash.  He has to bring us something!!!!

Jackson also has terrrrrrible gas!  It seems to be getting better as he is closer to full grown, but man o man it can be bad!!! That is funny about they way they all do the same thing with the donut toys too!! 

He also brings me random items around the house when he is bored...especially paper towels from the trash.  He knows I take them now...i think he has a secret compartment because i will look at him and he stops chewing and when i look away he starts again.  I can even look in his mouth (nothing) and it magically appears when i leave!  I think he has hamster pouches in there!!!!

Learned something!  Always thought the toy thing was just Spot.  But even GSP's in Australia do it!

Well, Bean walks sideways kind of at an angle, and if we encounter a curb, she will walk on it like a tight rope. she falls off sometimes, but gets back on, looking back at me in embarassment, as if to say  " I meant to step off "

Bean is a house dog, and she has a spot to sit, when we bring her inside. We have a dog throw, on the floor, she  comes in and immediatley sits, so we can towel her off, wipe her feet etc. She won't move until she gets her rub down....she looks so cute sitting there in her towel wrapped like a cape...I'll take a pic....she looks like a super hero

Oh yea after she gets her rub down & hears okay............she rips through the house about three times, before planting her butt at her window seat.

Renee'

yes we have two....we really like wine!  Red WINE! (jackson prefers beer....when he tries to steal a sip...sneaky german dog!)

Spot does the sitdown and towel off too.  Only for Spot, the word is free.  Then he knows it's OK to tear around the house.

OK, how about coffee?  Spot will beg borrow and steal for coffee.  We were watching TV in bed one morning and we both got up to do something.  Leaving Spot in bed alone.  We came back to bed and our coffee was gone.  Spot was laying on his back pretending to sleep.  I never dreamed a dog would go after coffee.  He begs for coffee like some dogs beg for steak.  I turn on the coffee maker and Spot sits in front of it and drools.  That's just wrong!