Does anyone elses dog not play?
 

All maggie wants to do is sit up against me if i'm sittin watching tv, or if i'm on my pc, she just wants to lay in her bed behind me or lay on the rug beside my chair. if I raise up out of my chair she hits the floor and follows me where ever I go. she likes to go outside and lay around. sometimes she will run and chase a squirrel or a bird but for the most part she lays in the grass or on the deck or front porch. she is scared of things that rattle like, welllll, most anything, plastic, paper etc. she totally embarrasses me sometimes around people. and she is the same way even with just us. if you walk towards her or start to pick her up, she lays down on her stomach like she is scare to death your coming to beat her. if we take her places in the truck she will not hardly move in the seat of the truck and in her car seat, she mostly lays down. she wont stand up and look out unless she is in my lap and i hold her up and she feels my hands on her. Yet she will beat us to the back door to go and loves riding. But I feel bad that she just lays there and rides and sees just inside. But she is so loving and cuddly and she has spells she will play with a toy maybe for 10 minutes and thats mainly if I say go play with your toys and i wont let her in my chair. This dog has never ever been hit or anything other than loved and petted even by anyone that comes to our house. Everyone pets her and thinks she is pretty so how do you get them out of being scared of everything or does anyone know? I've tried everything but she still just looks like she is cowarding down when you start towards her. i've just never seen another dog like her, but if I take her outside the fenced in area she runs like the wind everywhere but she's doing good about coming back to me when she gets very far away and I call her. I just wish she took more of an interest in playing with her toys. she will be one year old Monday. I throw toys for her and squeek them and she runs the other way. not because she is scared of them its just the way she plays. she likes to paw at me and me take my hands and act like we're just hitting each other. she uses her paws like a cat. she hits the ball and jumps around when it rolls but thats her way of playing with it. shes just strange.

Tootsie does that whole cowarding down thing...and she will either walks towards me or away from me...and at the same time...pee...i don't know how to stop it...sure hope someone can help...good luck!

Has she ever beenaround or played with another dog? I'm just wonder what her reactions were to that. I think I'm 'boring' to Betty :rolleyes: but she plays (roughhouses) with other dogs.

You have just described my Riley almost to a T! We got him to be Jo's playpal but Riley didn't know how to play, he would carry his favorite toy around but not chase anything and if Jo tried to play with him he just stood there. Poor Jo! Riley doesn't do the cowering down thing but he is cautious of unfamiliar noise, he loves to be cuddled and will follow me anywhere but he loves to lay around and look pretty. He turned 2 a few days ago and just in the last couple of months he's started to play like a 'normal' dog. I was so thrilled! The other night I was playing fetch with Jo and Riley brought me his favorite toy...I threw it and he chased it and brought it back to me...I couldn't believe it! I don't know what kind of life Riley had before we got him at 4 months but he must have been alone...I would think if he had been with his litter mates or even other puppies he would have learned how to play. Hang in there...things may change for you too!

Bengi plays all day long! Maybe it's just her personality. Still, maybe if you take her to the dog park or a play date she will play more. Also, sometimes dogs go through different stages and they may change later.
Maybe she doesn't play with you because she's not used to. Bengi plays with me, hubby, great-grandma, but not with gradma, because she kinda never palys with him, so he doesn't looks for her when he wants to play but goes with her when he wants to lay down and cuddle.

oh no, I do play with her. I throw her toys and tell her to go get it and I try and try and she wont. yes shes been around other dogs but she dont play with them but they dont play either. its my families dogs and none of them play much. my sister and her daughter have 3 dogs and I rarely see any of them play together. they'll chase her cat but not each other. when their outside they run all over the place but not chasing each other. my sister in laws yorkie wont play either. she loves to come up here and maggie loves to go to her house but neither of them will play with each other. we have some weird dogs. lol. maggie loves people. she will bark at any dog that comes up to our fence and run up and down the fence row barking at them but if they came in our yard, she would most likely, smell their butts and thats all. Thats what her and Sassy do to each other. But sassy loves to play with balls and toys. especiall maggies toys. maggie will play with her toys some when we're there too. if we're at their house maggie will play some with sassys toys and sassy watches her and vice versa when sassy is here. weird little dogs. lol
Maggie use to play with the other dog we had some, but only tug of war and then the other dog got so much rougher than maggie she started hiding from her. soooooooo, but I love her like she is. I just want her to enjoy playing more with her toys. But she isnt hyper, and that I can live with.

Jewels rarely plays too. She will play fetch sometimes but we have to hold Chachi or he wiill get the ball from her. She never goes over to the toybox and gets a toy to play with though

maggie will get so excited sometimes when different people come in or especially when we have left her for a while (maybe just and hour or less) once we come in, she starts the laying down but shes so excited she cant be still and she actually lays down and tries to run around so much till she is actually crawling all over the floor with excitment and sometimes she will dribble just a little bit. I've learned, as soon as I walk in and she meets me at the door to tell her go on out and tee tee. or i'll pick her up and set her out and shut the door for a few minutes and sometimes she'll pee then come back in but if she doesnt even pee, she is calmer when she comes in then I pick her up and pet her and hubby always picks her up if he doesnt have his hands full of other things where he can. Dr just said nothing I could do about it but hope she outgrows it. he said some will quit doing the dribble thing later. Its just her personality.

I think its just her personality:rolleyes:

My Minnie is like this too ......shes 3yrs old & does not play with any toys,shes so boring.... wheras Scamp my 2 yr old loves to play & will play all day & night with every toy he can get ahold off:D

As a matter of fact Minnie gets mad @ Scamp as he makes noise with his squeaky toys .....Minnie likes everything quiet..:aimeeyork

Scamp is lots more fun to be around:thumbup:

LOL-my 3 yr old is that way...a bit anyway. She will run around and play sometimes, but it is for a short time and then she's done! If I open the patio door and tell her to come out, she will RUN down the stairs and to the lawn as fast as she can! And then jumps down to the patio and to the next area of lawn! But mostly, she gets annoyed when the puppies try to play with her!! HAHA! And those 2 play non-stop! (the puppies)

My Wobie plays sometimes, but not nearly as much as I thought a puppy would...

I think cowering comes with the territory of being a tiny dog. There are a lot of big scary things out there. She should get better. Be sure kids aren't allowed to pick her up at will. That can be scary. Jack still cringes from me when I go to pick him up. He runs away, spins around and finally slinks up to me and backs in. Weird, but he's probably been picked up too many times when he didn't want to be.

As for playing, it sounds like Maggie has her own style. You can teach fetch by tossing something that she wants (a kong with peanut butter inside) and then getting her to drop it to get a better reward (a treat). Well, that's the theory anyway.

Jake plays ALL the time and LOVES toys, but he does the same cowering down thing that you explained sometimes. I think it's because these dogs are so little, they're just intimidated by everything.....think of how huge everything must look to them. I think just socializing them more and letting them play with other dogs makes things easier for them.

I know what you mean about how it looks like they've been mistreated, the way they cower down. But, Jake is definitely a very spoiled little guy so I think it's just his small size. I'm sure Maggie is the same. Maybe we look like giants to them lol.

From the videos I've seen of Maggie, it looks like she does really well outside. I'm sure she will get over her fears. Jake has gone from being scared and shaking outside to running and hopping around all over the place. I think the smaller breeds are just different so don't worry.

I think it may just be her personality. Teddy has a very playful personality and can play for hours but he's always been like that ever since he first came. He will take a toy and run away from me and never let me catch him, that's just how he is. London is playful too but she has a different personality. She plays when she wants to play and mostly wants a toy Teddy has.

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Emmy has just started acting somewhat like that. She plays hard at night, but the rest of the time, she just kinda slinks around.

The thing that is bothering me, though, is that she just started the cowering down thing. She has also started running from me, like I am big and bad. I can promise you, all I ever do is love on her (and so does everyone else)--even when she makes the occasional (or rather often) potty mistakes. I just clean them up and continue on.

Why has she suddenly became afraid?:confused: