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Schatze
Adult Weim
Joined: 16 Jan 2008
Posts: 286
Location: NC
Fur Kids: Schatze, Blue Weim |
 Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject: Alligator snap |
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| Do your dogs do what I call the alligator snap? Schatze will look at me sometimes when she has to potty or wants something else and open and close her mouth. She is not being aggressive at all just snaps her teeth. It's quite funny actually... |
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clarkiek
Champion Weim
Joined: 20 Oct 2007
Posts: 766
Location: MN
Fur Kids: Linkin, Weimaraner |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I know exactly what you mean. Linkin does this when he's playing with other dogs. He snaps his jaw at them - not in an aggressive way. He does it so hard and it sounds like it must hurt his teeth, because it's loud. It's so funny! |
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Ellinorianne
Champion Weim
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 890
Fur Kids: Used to have Sophie - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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Sophie does that when playing too, to me it's th worst sound ever. It makes me think of the phrase, "Gnashing of teeth". It's creepy to me.
I think it's some primal fear to not like the sound myself, the whole eat or be eaten thing. It really makes me want to bolt at times. |
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luana80it
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Posts: 1996
Location: CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY
Fur Kids: TOMMY, WEIMARANER
TYRA, WERIMARANER |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| clarkiek wrote: | | I know exactly what you mean. Linkin does this when he's playing with other dogs. He snaps his jaw at them - not in an aggressive way. He does it so hard and it sounds like it must hurt his teeth, because it's loud. It's so funny! |
tyra does the smae thing, sometimes i am scared she will break her teeth |
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weim2mom
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 16 Jan 2008
Posts: 1287
Location: Anne Arundel County, MD
Fur Kids: Chevy and Hemi, both Weimaraners |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| ooooh, yeah. We call Chevy gator all the time. |
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youhavenoidea
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 1922
Location: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Fur Kids: Slade - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I call that "air chompers". |
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Wrench
Adult Weim
Joined: 12 Apr 2008
Posts: 440
Location: Houston,TX
Fur Kids: Wrench, My first Weim, his second. Our Easter puppy at 8 weeks old. |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose too that all the soft mouthness of them has been bred out of them in the states...retrievers have much softer mouths but so far my experiance with weims is they are pretty hard mouthed...even worse than german sheperds! |
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youhavenoidea
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 1922
Location: Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
Fur Kids: Slade - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Wrench wrote: | | I suppose too that all the soft mouthness of them has been bred out of them in the states...retrievers have much softer mouths but so far my experiance with weims is they are pretty hard mouthed...even worse than german sheperds! |
I'm no hunting expert by any means, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if that were true as a rule to the breed, they wouldn't be hunted as much as they are. They do retrieve in the field as well. |
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Welches
Adult Weim
Joined: 06 Jan 2008
Posts: 492
Location: Houston, Texas
Fur Kids: Yukon - Weimaraner, male
Spike - Yorkie, male
Lexi - Weimaraner, female |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| We hunt our weims on birds so they are soft mouthed. However, I know that this was part of their training in the field. There are things that owners do, not realizing it, that can encourage a hard mouth, such as having your weim play fetch with a tennis ball. I don't think it's been bred out of them. |
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Indian
Adult Weim
Joined: 06 Jun 2007
Posts: 385
Fur Kids: Ashley and Steele...Both rescue wiems. |
| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| They were never bred as a "bird" dog to begin with. They were originally bred to hunt and TAKE DOWN large game in Germany, Deer and Russian boar. So the "soft" mouth of a bird dog is learned for them, Not instinctual. |
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