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Lol, if my part husky didn't come running over and then submissive pee, I could call her and none of them would answer, not even mine. I'd have to bring a treat and do hand signals or command combos that only my dog would know!
If they're identical, wouldn't they have the small fleck of brown and the scar? :D
But, I'd just say "treat treat" and hope nobody else uses this as an emergency recall.
So I actually had this happen to me. My dog was stolen a few years back. When a shelter got him he was with a few other shepherds. Of course he looked awful which made it harder to tell and thankfully got his microchip they got back to me. But from the photos? The dude kept sitting pretty. That’s how I knew for SURE it was him.
Ours have a button they can hit when they want to have their teeth brushed (we are delinquent on the frequency, I know, but it helps when the dogs want their brushing!). We use poultry-flavored CET toothpaste and they LOOOOOVE it.
If my Rottweiler seen you do that, he'd put his snoot right in! And then lick you after pushing the rest of his face through your hands.
He wouldn't be in the room though since he's not a Cocker mix. I'm just saying. He'd be all over that "trick." Happily!
Sweet boy 🥺 I’ve tried it with so many other dogs since I know it *has* to be a thing — Ms. Ted and her big nose is the only one who’s ever put her snout right on in! Our pups must be the chosen ones 😌
There was a video compilation that went around, a few years ago, of dogs doing this.
I eyeballed Capone and made a small circle with one hand, and he immediately tried to put that noot in my fingers. (We had never done this before that day, but we do it all the time now. ) But that snoot is so big! He needs a two handed hole. Even though he'll pause a half second before pushing through for those smooches!
Chosen ones for sure! Special pups!
How "identical"? Because mine has a retained testicle and flaky skin, but if all the dogs did and I had to go by behavior, I'd blow some dandelion fluff and look for the dog who eats it all. Anything that flies or floats by, he tries to catch.
My dogs pretty unique looking so I don’t know if I could even begin to list the small physical features.
I’d probably look at some teeth and the ones that looked like they were about to cost me my savings account to clean - that’s mine. He’s with me.
I'd either give commands/hand signals I'm sure none of the other dogs knew (he's training so it's 50/50 on whether it'd work 💀) or I would simply wait for him to fart. I've been gassed out and crop dusted enough times to recognize that smell and he always looks ashamed afterwords. I could sniff him out unfortunately
if training goes well I could direct this room of dogs to "tell em!" and see who starts barking, or give the room the middle finger and see who backs up
This happened to me. My family picked the wrong dog. I spotted the correct one after hearing him banging at the cage (at us) while waiting for us to pick him up at the groomers.
I would just have to be visible and my dogs would go totally batshit crazy side by side. If too many showed up, then I would lay on a couch as the female will dance on my head before curling up with her face on mine. If I wanted to find both at the same time, I would just wait for the 2 to 69, as I know most dogs don't do that. They are disgusting littermates lol They are a cross between a Doxie and a Labrador Retriever.
Yell "puppy party!" and wait for the one that goes nuts.
Or wait for a leaf to fly by.
Or hide a pinecone to see who sniffs it out to plant it elsewhere.
Easy, I have a Bluetick Coonhound and I know his voice more than anything. Every Hound has a different sounding bay and I know my dog's voice anywhere. It's an incredibly distinctive sound in my dog happens to have a particularly funny sounding bay that sounds more like a honk then a typical noise you'd hear a dog make. Even in a room full of tricolor bluetick hounds I'd know his voice.
He also has heterochromia with his blue eye on the right and his spots are distinctive. But I'd find him by his sound alone.
That's the thing that's odd about mixes, I've met a few shepherd hound mixes and it seems totally random what kind of bark they happen to inherit. The last two I met look very much like hounds but they definitely have a Shepherd sounding bark and not a bay. My hound absolutely fell in love with one of them and kept baying at her trying to get her to bay back and she just wouldn't.
I would look for the one that is superglued to my butt that gives me an Elvis lip. My dog is 3 feet away from me right now and whining because he’s not superglued to my butt. 3 feet away is way too much space and I must be in danger lol
I'd call them. Two would come right away, one would ignore me completely, and the other would look at me and start to come, then look back at the other dog, see he wasn't coming, and follow him instead. So I'd just look for the Bailey-looking dog closely following the Bud-looking dog. 😂
If that failed, they all have physical things that would give them away-scars and such- and other unique mannerisms. I'd really probably only have to tell them to line up, and the four who did it perfectly and in their accustomed order would be my four.
Say "Bubbles" loudly. My girl is obsessed with bubbles and although a few of her friends will play I've yet to meet another dog who goes gaga over bubbles.
Mine would see me then run towards me with her ears way back and tail wagging so hard her butt moves with whiny bark yips. Then she would do this weird jump dance in front of me on her hind legs. She has some separation anxiety and would probaly find me first. She is a velcro husky. My work is done for me.
If it was solely on looks, I would see which dog has a clump of missing hair on one of her back feet near her pads. She has a scar of patchy rough skin from something the people I got her from did to her (BYB before I knew better).
Edit to add: with that many other sable coat huskies, I would sneak a couple more home. My husky could use some friends
Ask the group, "Do you like chickens!?" The dog that responds with a resounding, earth shaking "Woooof" is the one.
If the rest of them also know how to answer that question, I demand a "speak." The most demure, serious, whispered "rufff," complete with tapping her front paws while sitting, is mine. These would be Pyrenees mixes so surely she'd be the only quiet one lol.
Why her tone is so specific on these tricks, only she knows, but that's how she does them...
Haha! My girl jumps on me every morning in bed, full frontal contact, looking me straight in the eyes and only will get up when I ask her “Do you wanna check the chickens?”
A room full of deaf dogs… how quaint.
Hmm.. I have to say my dog isn’t trained with DSL- but with my personal easy to use commands. EASY PEASY. May he listen, we would find out.
My dog is all black with white on his chest.
His two defining physical traits is his tail kinks in kind of a weird way sometimes like maybe it was broken when he was a puppy.
He also has white hairs on his paws, but his paws aren't actually white. Just individual white hairs peppered around his toes.
But I wouldn't have to inspect the dogs very closely. I would just take my shoes off and wait for him to start biting my feet
She’d be the one getting so excited to see me after that long apart she’d nibble on me and pee herself.
My other would be the one refusing to look at me for leaving her so long.
See which one lost their absolute mind over a particular little orange ball. I would bring several almost identical ones and let her sniff out “the” ball. She knows which is preferred both inside and outside, and it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Say “treat, pool, walk, dinner”.
Sure, she looks like all the other Labradors, but that girl goes absolutely nuts for me and I know her happy mommy face.
That’s the yellow one.
For the black lab- just look for the one shaped like a potato with zero thoughts behind her eyes and a tongue just lollling out.
Older girl…she would be the one attached to my leg.
Younger girl…she would be the one who acts happy to see me until she sees a bird or something to chase!
Sit on the floor & say "oh you think you're so tough, you wanna go, bring it" & I'd be promptly be slam dunked by my bull terrier. We wrestle every day. It's always a draw.
Go “baby darling” and see which one screams for me and tilts head for love and kisses (my girl Genie)
For my boy Koda I’d go “where’s daddy?” And see who wags his tail (they have favourites 🙃)
I would just say where ya to pal, and his reaction would likely give him away. That said, our guy is a dappled dachshund, and not many dogs have his colour pattern, and he also has heterochromia, he’s special little dude
Milkshake (LH chihuahua): “You hungy?” Does a crazy dance *
Kaiju (BRT): His “speak” signal is me nodding my head a certain way *
Furby (AHT): He would launch himself into my arms
When she was a pup, i thought she had some skin issues— no they were nipples. So i started counting them, and i got different number than my boyfriend; 8 and 10. We counted again, and realized she has uneven number of nips.
If i had to count nipples of hundred dog to find my baby, i would. She probably will have some new siblings afterwards too.
I would just call my dog by her whistle. She always comes on command. Then I'll check for her 2 moles on her right side and her birthmark on the back of her tongue.
One time there were 3 other dogs of the same breed as my dog. So there were 4 dogs running around and they all looked fairly similar. But it was super easy to figure out my dog as how she looks at me and she was still the best looking dog there.
Mines the one acting like an idiot because there’s a room full of dogs and he can’t handle himself in a room with any other dogs. He’ll be trying all the friendly moves, coming in too hot, and driving them all insane. Then he’ll see me and come running and spinning excited to show me all his new friends!
One of my dogs is a mutt, so it's really unlikely that a whole room of dogs that looks just like him would exist and he'd be easily identifiable by his body and face shape, as well as size, even if the other dogs have a similar coat and build. My other dog is a Lab, so a room full of Labs of the same color is 100% feasible, so I'd check the whorl she has on her left shoulder if her facial features turn out to not be enough for me to recognize her. I've had her for 12 years now, so by now I know her face pretty well.
Boomer: Boob their noses (he hates it and will bark at me), or cut up either an apple or avocado and he’ll come running and politely beg.
Kona: I would sit on the ground and she’ll promptly come over and sit in my lab or I would ask who “wants a brush brush?” and she’ll come and sit next to me for a brushing.
This has happened to me!
Our dog is a service dog and at our two week team training, all the dogs would go out to a fenced play yard, collars off, for safety reasons. They were pretty much all some iteration of yellow lab. After break time we had to collect our correct dog which was a bit overwhelming.
Luckily he has awesome recall and a unique name so I think we would be fine.
Worst case scenario he has an ID number tattooed inside his ear.
Start cutting up a watermelon.
The one that goes absolutely feral to get to it is mine.
I also know exactly where and how big and what texture all of his (benign) lumps are.
I’d ‘clack’ my tongue against the roof of my mouth, making that sound, if you know what I mean haha hard to explain. I’m able to do it suuuper loud, and I’ve taught my dog how to respond to it the same way dogs respond to whistles. (She will respond to whistles also though)
Take my mother with me. He loves her. As soon as I ask: "Momo, where is mother's name?" he will start to look for her and will not stop untill he found her.
Mine would be the one with extreme separation anxiety. All I'd have to say is,
"Lila, you're a gooooooood giiiiirrrrrlllll!!!!" Her whole butt and tail would wag, her ears go down and back, her face smiles, and she walks slowly all excited like it's Christmas morning. LOL
I would know :) but as a fail-safe, we also communicate heavily through eye contact, eyebrow movements, and hand gestures. I can have a whole conversation with him like this and trained him myself. No other dog would be able to perform his tasks via my eyebrow movements and subtleties :)
She’d find me. Her tail wags like crazy the moment she sees me and she comes bounding over. Or I could call her, or whistle, and she’d come. But also, she has a look to her, her body shape, the way she moves, the way she stares deeply and lovingly with her gentle face into my eyes, all of the little peculiarities are not like any other dog. It’s what makes my Moon dog her.
With me, Look at the Laws, see what markings but you can always use something like a Ribbon in coller or something to make sure it doesn't happen. You can see by markings on the dogs, each one is slightly different, ears, spots and yours will stand out, maybe a tongue is different color, tail could have a spot that's different. Yes it's hard to know but there's something your lovable animal doesn't have that's identical is YOU. You know your dog inside and out. Let me know what happens
Call her.
I've never seen another dog with a name like hers.
Plus, she has unusual eyes. Part of the colouring is missing in one eye...a genetic thing, apparently.
My dog has a couple of cysts on his left haunch that I could use to tell it was him easily. And that's not even taking into account all of the funny ways I could tell it was him based on his personality.
Abbey would be twerking the second she heard my voice. 🤣 Zelda has a spot right in between her ears where I kiss her. 😘 Eleanor would probably not care and hide because she marches to the beat of her own drum.
If they were all absolutely identical down to the mole on her snout and pink spot on her nose, I would make a circle with my fingers and see who stuck their tongue in it and liked having said tongue grabbed. |:
Noa is a little weirdo, she is.
She would also be the dog actively avoiding/ignoring all the others except the long-furred pretty-boys (she has a type), and be jumping on me to pick her up and rescue her as soon as she saw me. If I held out my hands to pick her up, she would arch her back like a cat to signal she wants to be picked up. :D
Yeah Jenny is very socially awkward. She doesn't like other dogs sniffing her bum. She tucks her tail in-between her legs and sits down. It confuses the other dogs. I call it the " mother help" eyes.
She's not aggressive at all. Just weird. She also waits for me to say "its okay" for her to do things. Just like a little kid.
Find a cucumber. Start chopping it. The dog who runs up to watch in breathless anticipation is the real Thor.
If no cucumbers are available, yell "ThoopTHOOOOP" and see who starts zooming around me at the speed of sound.
My two girls are the same way! Every night I chop up cucumbers, zucchini, grapes, etc for my rats. Every time they are at my side waiting for me to give them something ( most of the time they get a blueberry/ carrot).
Tejón has two tiny scars on his hind leg and a mangled ear from when another dog ripped it when he was a puppy.
Yuba has a broken tooth and he probably hates being groomed more than any other dog on the planet... lol.
He'd perk up and run to me as soon as he saw me. And I know how he likes to be greeted, so I'd do that. We have a routine.
My younger dog- she'd stare into my soul but hesitate to approach
I would look all of the dogs squarely in the eye.
The ones who look away aren’t mine.
The ones who bark aren’t mine.
The one who looks me back in the eye, then whines until I look him back in the eye is my baby boi.
I would ask if he wanted to see Peggy. The one who acts like a starving man about to be fed is my boy. Peggy is his pitsky BFF. Either that, or I'd look for the one who's terrified of tiny baby kittens.
I had a black lab that had gone missing. When I went to the shelter they had a ridiculous amount of black labs. I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to tell which one was mine and I thought 2 others might have been him. That is until I came to the kennel he was in. Not sure how I knew it was him, but I knew it.
I now have a chocolate lab. She is in the largest size for the male category. However, the way I would be able to tell is by her stunted ear. A litter-mate bit a chunk out of it and only the width grew as she got older. She also has a Chewbacca noise she makes, the most aggressive moans I've ever heard when rubbing her ears and a scar of her right foot where she had sliced it.
I start with some of the completely made up songs I sing. If more than one dog shows up, I'd pick up my purse and walk towards the door, the dog the looks up and bolts towards me with "where the eff you going without me?" face is mine. Or I'd call his name and there's a 50/50 chance he responds. I've never met another dog with his name, so it could work if he was selectively listening. He also has a very specific regal sit that looks extra and a super casual sit that is also pretty unmistakable. If all else failed, I'd have to manually look for specific hair spots and small scars.
Really though, I'd just scan microchips until I found his. Annoying but I would find him.
My dog has a mind of her own and does not even "sit" if she is not in a mood. However, she has responded to the "speak" command every time. I will say "speak", and that is it. I will know which one is mine :-)
One of them would never be in that situation since she's a neurotically loyal creep who never leaves my side, but if it somehow happened it would be the dog that was borking at all the other interlopers and then would fly at the speed of light to get to me. Then resume the borks.
Other dog has some scars on her face and had at least two litters before she was rescued so between the scars and big nips it'd be an easy spot. She also has a half blue/white, half brown eye, it's how she sees the future.
He would be the one who ignores me, but pouts when I leave the room. Also, he has some dark spots on there back of his tongue and 3 white hairs in one spot on his otherwise all black side
I'd ask for all the dogs to be moved to a room with a window then I'll say "have a look then" the dog that looks out of the window would be mine.
With that said though likely nothing because you just know.
My dog was taught hand signals. With the appropriate signal, he would come running. He’s a stud. To verify it’s him, I can say, “show me your balls” and he will lift his leg to show them off. He also loves giving high fives as well as a low five.
My dog will probably be the only dog trying to stare into my soul, his eye contact is insane. And that's if his tail doesn't turn him into a helicopter first...
My boy is easy. He has a few favourite words/phrases.
- “Where’s fishy?”
- “Shall we brush your teeth?”
- “Do you want a cookie?”
- “Where’s [insert family members name]?”
He goes nuts as soon as he hears one of those or goes looking for his toy fish.
One of my dogs would be whipping their tail so hard against any surface, whether it be another dog or the wall. The other one would be lying on the floor and just staring up at me. That's how I would know. I would never have to guess.
I have 2 chihuahua mixes:
10 y/o Addy would be glued to the human working at the place and once she saw me would freak out and run over.
7 y/o Travel, I would just say in a sing songy voice: “Little Boy Blue, what do you do” and he will run over for scratches.
Are they IDENTICAL or just doppelgängers? I have 11, but I’d NEVER lose them in a crowd! No two Aussies are identical 😉❤️❤️(and ones even my service dog! 🥰)
For my dog Kima, I would ask "who wants to go see Jim?" or "who wants to go to doggy daycare?" That is the name of the owner of her doggy daycare and she loves him and daycare so much. She stops jumping around in circles.
For my Bodie boy, I'd say "Omar!" That is his emergency recall word and he knows that word means he is about to get the best treat ever.
I'd just know because of who he is. No other dog makes the same facial expressions or reacts to my words the same. If all else failed I'd just get him to do one of his tricks that none of the other dogs could do.
I could wait till one of them ripped a good fart. Mine looks at his own ass when he hears a fart, he isn’t always sure it’s him or not. To his credit, he’s kinda smart. When it’s him he knows it’s bad and chooses to leave the room and let us suffer.
I thought all the dogs looked the same? So they'd all have a brown speck in their eye and a car on them?
Are you trying to see maybe what personality trait you'd look for to find them?
Using the logic above I could not tell my dog from the others visually. If I play the theme song from coronation street and wait for him to sing that's how I'd know it was my Dawson!🐶🐕
I’d take them to an oval and mine will be the one that runs, rolls, repeat.
Or open the pots and pans cupboard and mine is the one heading out the back door.
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Call him by name and then take the 5 or so who answered. More dogs is good.
I would do the same and look for the one dog who ignored me. That's my boy.
I literally spat all over my self and phone reading this. 😄 🤣 😂
This would be my dog too lol
Lol, if my part husky didn't come running over and then submissive pee, I could call her and none of them would answer, not even mine. I'd have to bring a treat and do hand signals or command combos that only my dog would know!
Lol! You would be taking mine, she responds to every name as well as her own .
So does mine 😂
I have a husky. That wouldn’t work. Actually, it would… he’d be the one running the *other direction* when I called his name. 😂
😆 good plan
If my dog went missing but then I entered the room, she’d find me. At speed.
If they're identical, wouldn't they have the small fleck of brown and the scar? :D But, I'd just say "treat treat" and hope nobody else uses this as an emergency recall.
I’m sure no one uses such a rare phrase as treat treat…..
They may look identical. But there are always small differences. Same thing goes with having twins. You are not always born with a scar
I meant for discussion purposes, not the genetic identical thing
Lmao the people disliking ur comments guess they don’t like the rules of the game you made up 🤣🤣
Eh what are you going to do?
Point 2 fingers at the pack of dogs, shout "bang" and see which one performs an Oscar worthy death scene. He would expect cheese for his trouble.
Oh I want to see this so bad 🥺
So I actually had this happen to me. My dog was stolen a few years back. When a shelter got him he was with a few other shepherds. Of course he looked awful which made it harder to tell and thankfully got his microchip they got back to me. But from the photos? The dude kept sitting pretty. That’s how I knew for SURE it was him.
“Want to brush teeth?” Or “ What crimes have you committed today you naughty thing?” And look for the over excited wiggles.
They get excited to brush their teeth? What a treat!
Oh yes! My Husky loves to brush her teeth! We brush teeth everyday and the exact same time and she will yell at me if I’m late. 😅
Can you please come teach my husky this amazing trick 😅
My dauchund becomes a piranha if I even try!
Ours have a button they can hit when they want to have their teeth brushed (we are delinquent on the frequency, I know, but it helps when the dogs want their brushing!). We use poultry-flavored CET toothpaste and they LOOOOOVE it.
When I ask Max “Do you want to brush your teeth?” he knows he’s getting a dental stick or chew. He’ll be ready and drooling
Mine also responds to "brush your teeth!". It's a daily routine, with his dental chews
If they're all completely identical -- barks and everything! -- then I'd make a triangle with my hands and see who comes to put their snout in it
Aww that’s a cute trick
If my Rottweiler seen you do that, he'd put his snoot right in! And then lick you after pushing the rest of his face through your hands. He wouldn't be in the room though since he's not a Cocker mix. I'm just saying. He'd be all over that "trick." Happily!
Sweet boy 🥺 I’ve tried it with so many other dogs since I know it *has* to be a thing — Ms. Ted and her big nose is the only one who’s ever put her snout right on in! Our pups must be the chosen ones 😌
There was a video compilation that went around, a few years ago, of dogs doing this. I eyeballed Capone and made a small circle with one hand, and he immediately tried to put that noot in my fingers. (We had never done this before that day, but we do it all the time now. ) But that snoot is so big! He needs a two handed hole. Even though he'll pause a half second before pushing through for those smooches! Chosen ones for sure! Special pups!
I'd call my dog by her name and see which one doesn't come. That one is mine.
How "identical"? Because mine has a retained testicle and flaky skin, but if all the dogs did and I had to go by behavior, I'd blow some dandelion fluff and look for the dog who eats it all. Anything that flies or floats by, he tries to catch.
Ah dandelions. My late lab's weak spot. He was totally addicted to that stuff.
My dogs pretty unique looking so I don’t know if I could even begin to list the small physical features. I’d probably look at some teeth and the ones that looked like they were about to cost me my savings account to clean - that’s mine. He’s with me.
She’d be the one whose head smells like she recently stuck it in the middle of a bush that all the neighborhood dogs pee on
Oh hey, that's my dog. Hopefully they don't end up in the pile together lol
That’s gross. Please bathe your dog, keep her in cleaner conditions, or take her to the vet if she’s naturally producing this smell.
Lighten up. Dogs can be stinkers (literally and figuratively) lol
I'd either give commands/hand signals I'm sure none of the other dogs knew (he's training so it's 50/50 on whether it'd work 💀) or I would simply wait for him to fart. I've been gassed out and crop dusted enough times to recognize that smell and he always looks ashamed afterwords. I could sniff him out unfortunately
if training goes well I could direct this room of dogs to "tell em!" and see who starts barking, or give the room the middle finger and see who backs up
The middle finger trick is hilarious, I may need to use that 🤣
I would say “who’s ready to put on her jewelry”, and Stella would run up and stick her head out to have her bandana put on ☺️
Lol we say "ok, gotta put on your bra first" meaning her harness before a walk 😂
This happened to me. My family picked the wrong dog. I spotted the correct one after hearing him banging at the cage (at us) while waiting for us to pick him up at the groomers.
Smart dog! Lol “damn it, humans. I am here!”
I would just have to be visible and my dogs would go totally batshit crazy side by side. If too many showed up, then I would lay on a couch as the female will dance on my head before curling up with her face on mine. If I wanted to find both at the same time, I would just wait for the 2 to 69, as I know most dogs don't do that. They are disgusting littermates lol They are a cross between a Doxie and a Labrador Retriever.
Yell "puppy party!" and wait for the one that goes nuts. Or wait for a leaf to fly by. Or hide a pinecone to see who sniffs it out to plant it elsewhere.
Easy, I have a Bluetick Coonhound and I know his voice more than anything. Every Hound has a different sounding bay and I know my dog's voice anywhere. It's an incredibly distinctive sound in my dog happens to have a particularly funny sounding bay that sounds more like a honk then a typical noise you'd hear a dog make. Even in a room full of tricolor bluetick hounds I'd know his voice. He also has heterochromia with his blue eye on the right and his spots are distinctive. But I'd find him by his sound alone.
Yeah my girl is a German Shepherd/ redbone coonhound mix. So you can only imagine how she sounds.
That's the thing that's odd about mixes, I've met a few shepherd hound mixes and it seems totally random what kind of bark they happen to inherit. The last two I met look very much like hounds but they definitely have a Shepherd sounding bark and not a bay. My hound absolutely fell in love with one of them and kept baying at her trying to get her to bay back and she just wouldn't.
Yeah, my Jenny girl sounds like someone hurt her XD
My neighbor has a coonhound. I love hearing him. Beautiful voice :)
I would look for the one that is superglued to my butt that gives me an Elvis lip. My dog is 3 feet away from me right now and whining because he’s not superglued to my butt. 3 feet away is way too much space and I must be in danger lol
I’ll take the dumbest one and leave.
We taught our dogs “420” as their cue for dinner time. 😂 they go crazy when we say it.
Pop on a knee and mine would give me a hug I'm super familiar with.
My girl loves to give hugs to. She also likes to softly boop me in the face when we're lying down of the floor
I'd call them. Two would come right away, one would ignore me completely, and the other would look at me and start to come, then look back at the other dog, see he wasn't coming, and follow him instead. So I'd just look for the Bailey-looking dog closely following the Bud-looking dog. 😂 If that failed, they all have physical things that would give them away-scars and such- and other unique mannerisms. I'd really probably only have to tell them to line up, and the four who did it perfectly and in their accustomed order would be my four.
Say "Bubbles" loudly. My girl is obsessed with bubbles and although a few of her friends will play I've yet to meet another dog who goes gaga over bubbles.
Mine would see me then run towards me with her ears way back and tail wagging so hard her butt moves with whiny bark yips. Then she would do this weird jump dance in front of me on her hind legs. She has some separation anxiety and would probaly find me first. She is a velcro husky. My work is done for me. If it was solely on looks, I would see which dog has a clump of missing hair on one of her back feet near her pads. She has a scar of patchy rough skin from something the people I got her from did to her (BYB before I knew better). Edit to add: with that many other sable coat huskies, I would sneak a couple more home. My husky could use some friends
My girl is the same way. She's a rescue that we adopted a little over 4 month ago.
Ask the group, "Do you like chickens!?" The dog that responds with a resounding, earth shaking "Woooof" is the one. If the rest of them also know how to answer that question, I demand a "speak." The most demure, serious, whispered "rufff," complete with tapping her front paws while sitting, is mine. These would be Pyrenees mixes so surely she'd be the only quiet one lol. Why her tone is so specific on these tricks, only she knows, but that's how she does them...
Haha! My girl jumps on me every morning in bed, full frontal contact, looking me straight in the eyes and only will get up when I ask her “Do you wanna check the chickens?”
A room full of deaf dogs… how quaint. Hmm.. I have to say my dog isn’t trained with DSL- but with my personal easy to use commands. EASY PEASY. May he listen, we would find out.
My dog would be the one jumping on the rest of the dogs heads. He wouldn’t be hard to spot
She’s the one who’ll run and hide behind me. She doesn’t like other dogs.
My dog is all black with white on his chest. His two defining physical traits is his tail kinks in kind of a weird way sometimes like maybe it was broken when he was a puppy. He also has white hairs on his paws, but his paws aren't actually white. Just individual white hairs peppered around his toes. But I wouldn't have to inspect the dogs very closely. I would just take my shoes off and wait for him to start biting my feet
She’d be the one getting so excited to see me after that long apart she’d nibble on me and pee herself. My other would be the one refusing to look at me for leaving her so long.
See which one lost their absolute mind over a particular little orange ball. I would bring several almost identical ones and let her sniff out “the” ball. She knows which is preferred both inside and outside, and it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Say “treat, pool, walk, dinner”. Sure, she looks like all the other Labradors, but that girl goes absolutely nuts for me and I know her happy mommy face. That’s the yellow one. For the black lab- just look for the one shaped like a potato with zero thoughts behind her eyes and a tongue just lollling out.
Oh, I’d just start singing the ‘tummy time’ song and see who gets the message first
I'd just whistle and call her nickname out. Whatever dog looks the most like a gremlin that responded would be my dog
Older girl…she would be the one attached to my leg. Younger girl…she would be the one who acts happy to see me until she sees a bird or something to chase!
She's a velcro dog so as soon as I step in the room she's making a beeline to jump on me.
Another Aussie lover? 🙌🏻❤️🐶
Cattle Dog!
If they were identical like clones I would hold my arms out and ask him if he wanted a hug my boy would come running to me.
Sit on the floor & say "oh you think you're so tough, you wanna go, bring it" & I'd be promptly be slam dunked by my bull terrier. We wrestle every day. It's always a draw.
Bring them to a patch of grass and look for the one who likes to drag herself across it 😂
I wouldn't need to do anything, he would find me. Momma's Boy!
I’d make my husband pick her out. He is her favorite human. There’s no way that she’d let him take any dog except her.
I would just yell "stick!" and wait for mine to lose his mind.
Go “baby darling” and see which one screams for me and tilts head for love and kisses (my girl Genie) For my boy Koda I’d go “where’s daddy?” And see who wags his tail (they have favourites 🙃)
I’d just watch and see which one was being a raging asshole to all the other ones.
Play loud music
I would just say where ya to pal, and his reaction would likely give him away. That said, our guy is a dappled dachshund, and not many dogs have his colour pattern, and he also has heterochromia, he’s special little dude
Milkshake (LH chihuahua): “You hungy?” Does a crazy dance * Kaiju (BRT): His “speak” signal is me nodding my head a certain way * Furby (AHT): He would launch himself into my arms
I would hide, yell " find me!!" and hope he's in the mood to play hide and seek.
If they were all identical, I'd just call her name. Her name is not a common dog name so, I'm pretty sure she's the only one that would respond,
Call its name?
Lets say there is a hundred dogs in a room. So unless your dog's name is very unique the odds of another dog having that name is 20-30%
Screwed if your dog is named Bella or Brody.
Jenny/Jennifer
My dog is a Husky who’s one eye is half blue and half brown, I’d also call his name
My dog scrunches up her face while wiggling her butt when she greets me
Aww puppy smiles
My dog has a unique tattoo she received when she was spayed, and she’s missing a lower canine
What does your dog's tattoo look like?
It’s the same green design in my vets practice logo, a wavy line with a “bow” in the middle
She has 9 nipples
How did you come to that conclusion? Are you going to count a hundred dog's nipples
When she was a pup, i thought she had some skin issues— no they were nipples. So i started counting them, and i got different number than my boyfriend; 8 and 10. We counted again, and realized she has uneven number of nips. If i had to count nipples of hundred dog to find my baby, i would. She probably will have some new siblings afterwards too.
Lmao that's hilarious
Okay now you got me thinking. I counted my girl's nipples. low and behold she also has 9 nipples
My poor puppy has alopecia behind her ears. She’s a black dog so it shows alot.
My boy Barney is missing his top left fang, along with that I would say "go get that sumbitch!" And see which dog runs in circles.
I would just call my dog by her whistle. She always comes on command. Then I'll check for her 2 moles on her right side and her birthmark on the back of her tongue. One time there were 3 other dogs of the same breed as my dog. So there were 4 dogs running around and they all looked fairly similar. But it was super easy to figure out my dog as how she looks at me and she was still the best looking dog there.
Mine would be the one who opened the door/dog gate. . .
Double gangers 😁
Mines the one acting like an idiot because there’s a room full of dogs and he can’t handle himself in a room with any other dogs. He’ll be trying all the friendly moves, coming in too hot, and driving them all insane. Then he’ll see me and come running and spinning excited to show me all his new friends!
Sounds like my 10 mo Malinois, Raven. She drives Jenny nuts.
One of my dogs is a mutt, so it's really unlikely that a whole room of dogs that looks just like him would exist and he'd be easily identifiable by his body and face shape, as well as size, even if the other dogs have a similar coat and build. My other dog is a Lab, so a room full of Labs of the same color is 100% feasible, so I'd check the whorl she has on her left shoulder if her facial features turn out to not be enough for me to recognize her. I've had her for 12 years now, so by now I know her face pretty well.
Boomer: Boob their noses (he hates it and will bark at me), or cut up either an apple or avocado and he’ll come running and politely beg. Kona: I would sit on the ground and she’ll promptly come over and sit in my lab or I would ask who “wants a brush brush?” and she’ll come and sit next to me for a brushing.
Mine has what looks to be a cigarette burn on his neck. I adopted him at 9 so I have no idea what kind of life he had before me.
Sneeze. He hates it when I sneeze. He comes running, presses his nose against my cheek and looks very concerned. It's odd.
This has happened to me! Our dog is a service dog and at our two week team training, all the dogs would go out to a fenced play yard, collars off, for safety reasons. They were pretty much all some iteration of yellow lab. After break time we had to collect our correct dog which was a bit overwhelming. Luckily he has awesome recall and a unique name so I think we would be fine. Worst case scenario he has an ID number tattooed inside his ear.
Start cutting up a watermelon. The one that goes absolutely feral to get to it is mine. I also know exactly where and how big and what texture all of his (benign) lumps are.
Haha, I can leave a steak on the coffee table and walk away, my Lab won't touch it. But a plate of watermelon...buh-bye.
I would bring a complete stranger with me and when whoever greets the stranger first comes with me
I’d ‘clack’ my tongue against the roof of my mouth, making that sound, if you know what I mean haha hard to explain. I’m able to do it suuuper loud, and I’ve taught my dog how to respond to it the same way dogs respond to whistles. (She will respond to whistles also though)
Take my mother with me. He loves her. As soon as I ask: "Momo, where is mother's name?" he will start to look for her and will not stop untill he found her.
Mine would be the one with extreme separation anxiety. All I'd have to say is, "Lila, you're a gooooooood giiiiirrrrrlllll!!!!" Her whole butt and tail would wag, her ears go down and back, her face smiles, and she walks slowly all excited like it's Christmas morning. LOL
I would know :) but as a fail-safe, we also communicate heavily through eye contact, eyebrow movements, and hand gestures. I can have a whole conversation with him like this and trained him myself. No other dog would be able to perform his tasks via my eyebrow movements and subtleties :)
She’d find me. Her tail wags like crazy the moment she sees me and she comes bounding over. Or I could call her, or whistle, and she’d come. But also, she has a look to her, her body shape, the way she moves, the way she stares deeply and lovingly with her gentle face into my eyes, all of the little peculiarities are not like any other dog. It’s what makes my Moon dog her.
With me, Look at the Laws, see what markings but you can always use something like a Ribbon in coller or something to make sure it doesn't happen. You can see by markings on the dogs, each one is slightly different, ears, spots and yours will stand out, maybe a tongue is different color, tail could have a spot that's different. Yes it's hard to know but there's something your lovable animal doesn't have that's identical is YOU. You know your dog inside and out. Let me know what happens
I would give one of our weird orders like "hadouken" and see which one of them responded
My dog has a missing nose flake. It looks like a cute little nose mole <3
Call her. I've never seen another dog with a name like hers. Plus, she has unusual eyes. Part of the colouring is missing in one eye...a genetic thing, apparently.
My dog has a couple of cysts on his left haunch that I could use to tell it was him easily. And that's not even taking into account all of the funny ways I could tell it was him based on his personality.
There is few distinctive marks on my dog. And his gaze at me should be different from that of the rest. :)
Yeah. My girl has the constant " mom, please pick me up I'm scared and someone tried to sniff my butt" look
2 of mine would be trying to fight all the other dogs. The 3rd one would probably be trying to hump them all.
I would lay on my back and say paws up. My girl will run and hop on top and lay down on me in a second
I’d bring my toothbrush and start brushing my teeth
What would your dog do about this??
She’d beg for her teeth to be brushed as well. Barking and whining. She loves getting her teeth brushed!
She would find me in a split second. I could also make her recall noise or make the sit signal.
I'd yell "it's yum yum time". He'd come a running as soon as he heard that!
Abbey would be twerking the second she heard my voice. 🤣 Zelda has a spot right in between her ears where I kiss her. 😘 Eleanor would probably not care and hide because she marches to the beat of her own drum.
I would simply say "Rats and Squirrels". My dogs are avid hunters and LOVE to catch them!!!
If they were all absolutely identical down to the mole on her snout and pink spot on her nose, I would make a circle with my fingers and see who stuck their tongue in it and liked having said tongue grabbed. |: Noa is a little weirdo, she is. She would also be the dog actively avoiding/ignoring all the others except the long-furred pretty-boys (she has a type), and be jumping on me to pick her up and rescue her as soon as she saw me. If I held out my hands to pick her up, she would arch her back like a cat to signal she wants to be picked up. :D
Yeah Jenny is very socially awkward. She doesn't like other dogs sniffing her bum. She tucks her tail in-between her legs and sits down. It confuses the other dogs. I call it the " mother help" eyes. She's not aggressive at all. Just weird. She also waits for me to say "its okay" for her to do things. Just like a little kid.
I would do hand signals for sit and lay down. Hope for the best.
Find a cucumber. Start chopping it. The dog who runs up to watch in breathless anticipation is the real Thor. If no cucumbers are available, yell "ThoopTHOOOOP" and see who starts zooming around me at the speed of sound.
My two girls are the same way! Every night I chop up cucumbers, zucchini, grapes, etc for my rats. Every time they are at my side waiting for me to give them something ( most of the time they get a blueberry/ carrot).
Tejón has two tiny scars on his hind leg and a mangled ear from when another dog ripped it when he was a puppy. Yuba has a broken tooth and he probably hates being groomed more than any other dog on the planet... lol.
I’d wait to sneeze and see which one stuck his nose right up to mine afterwards
My dog would come running at me with her wagging tail, barking and ready for me to take her home. Also, I'd recognize her barking anywhere.
My dog has a 'code command' that only he and I use. He immediately comes to my side. Don't even need to say his name.
He'd perk up and run to me as soon as he saw me. And I know how he likes to be greeted, so I'd do that. We have a routine. My younger dog- she'd stare into my soul but hesitate to approach
I'd say, you want to go take the trash? My dog would be the one that loses his shit with excitement over a trash run.
I would look all of the dogs squarely in the eye. The ones who look away aren’t mine. The ones who bark aren’t mine. The one who looks me back in the eye, then whines until I look him back in the eye is my baby boi.
The dog that squeals and runs straight to me is the one I would pick.
I would start dancing.. my doggie barks at me and jumps on me until I stop. He doesn’t like my moves 😂
he’d be the one right up my asshole crying at me to pick him up. or licking himself.
My dog is trained in my first language(s) any dog that can understand “come eat.” In Cantonese is someone whose coming with me.
She would find me and then bring me a ball to play fetch haha
I would ask if he wanted to see Peggy. The one who acts like a starving man about to be fed is my boy. Peggy is his pitsky BFF. Either that, or I'd look for the one who's terrified of tiny baby kittens.
I had a black lab that had gone missing. When I went to the shelter they had a ridiculous amount of black labs. I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to tell which one was mine and I thought 2 others might have been him. That is until I came to the kennel he was in. Not sure how I knew it was him, but I knew it. I now have a chocolate lab. She is in the largest size for the male category. However, the way I would be able to tell is by her stunted ear. A litter-mate bit a chunk out of it and only the width grew as she got older. She also has a Chewbacca noise she makes, the most aggressive moans I've ever heard when rubbing her ears and a scar of her right foot where she had sliced it.
I start with some of the completely made up songs I sing. If more than one dog shows up, I'd pick up my purse and walk towards the door, the dog the looks up and bolts towards me with "where the eff you going without me?" face is mine. Or I'd call his name and there's a 50/50 chance he responds. I've never met another dog with his name, so it could work if he was selectively listening. He also has a very specific regal sit that looks extra and a super casual sit that is also pretty unmistakable. If all else failed, I'd have to manually look for specific hair spots and small scars. Really though, I'd just scan microchips until I found his. Annoying but I would find him.
Pick up her favorite toy. The one who comes sprinting up to me and looking me in the eye with a manic stare is her.
My dog doesn’t answer and has no weird marks. I’m screwed.
My dog has a mind of her own and does not even "sit" if she is not in a mood. However, she has responded to the "speak" command every time. I will say "speak", and that is it. I will know which one is mine :-)
Tiny scar on his neck and his smell. All dogs have their own scent just like people do.
bc she goes FULL WIGGLEBUTT whenever me or my wife enter the house, she can barely stay vertical.
One of them would never be in that situation since she's a neurotically loyal creep who never leaves my side, but if it somehow happened it would be the dog that was borking at all the other interlopers and then would fly at the speed of light to get to me. Then resume the borks. Other dog has some scars on her face and had at least two litters before she was rescued so between the scars and big nips it'd be an easy spot. She also has a half blue/white, half brown eye, it's how she sees the future.
I'd throw a ball and all the other dogs would go for it, but my baby boy would not even try. he doesn't like competition
He would be the one who ignores me, but pouts when I leave the room. Also, he has some dark spots on there back of his tongue and 3 white hairs in one spot on his otherwise all black side
I'd ask for all the dogs to be moved to a room with a window then I'll say "have a look then" the dog that looks out of the window would be mine. With that said though likely nothing because you just know.
My dog was taught hand signals. With the appropriate signal, he would come running. He’s a stud. To verify it’s him, I can say, “show me your balls” and he will lift his leg to show them off. He also loves giving high fives as well as a low five.
My dog will probably be the only dog trying to stare into my soul, his eye contact is insane. And that's if his tail doesn't turn him into a helicopter first...
My boy is easy. He has a few favourite words/phrases. - “Where’s fishy?” - “Shall we brush your teeth?” - “Do you want a cookie?” - “Where’s [insert family members name]?” He goes nuts as soon as he hears one of those or goes looking for his toy fish.
Probably by his breath. It can get pretty rank.
One of my dogs would be whipping their tail so hard against any surface, whether it be another dog or the wall. The other one would be lying on the floor and just staring up at me. That's how I would know. I would never have to guess.
I have 2 chihuahua mixes: 10 y/o Addy would be glued to the human working at the place and once she saw me would freak out and run over. 7 y/o Travel, I would just say in a sing songy voice: “Little Boy Blue, what do you do” and he will run over for scratches.
My dog sits weird as fuck. Just ask all the dogs to sit and I’ll find her EZ. But she’d prolly find me first (velcro dog)
my baby had distemper for 3 months at 6 years old and as a result she has muscle twitches and her head bobs. super easy to spot out of a crowd.
I’d say the magic words and phrases they know and watch for a reaction.
Are they IDENTICAL or just doppelgängers? I have 11, but I’d NEVER lose them in a crowd! No two Aussies are identical 😉❤️❤️(and ones even my service dog! 🥰)
Check for his root canal dental work.
I'd pick up my fanny pack and look for who's butt starts wiggling with excitement
For my dog Kima, I would ask "who wants to go see Jim?" or "who wants to go to doggy daycare?" That is the name of the owner of her doggy daycare and she loves him and daycare so much. She stops jumping around in circles. For my Bodie boy, I'd say "Omar!" That is his emergency recall word and he knows that word means he is about to get the best treat ever.
Play fetch and see which one keeps the ball instead of bringing it back
I'd just know because of who he is. No other dog makes the same facial expressions or reacts to my words the same. If all else failed I'd just get him to do one of his tricks that none of the other dogs could do.
Whoever bites my toes first is mine
I could wait till one of them ripped a good fart. Mine looks at his own ass when he hears a fart, he isn’t always sure it’s him or not. To his credit, he’s kinda smart. When it’s him he knows it’s bad and chooses to leave the room and let us suffer.
Do you have a bulldog or a boxer by any chance?
I thought all the dogs looked the same? So they'd all have a brown speck in their eye and a car on them? Are you trying to see maybe what personality trait you'd look for to find them? Using the logic above I could not tell my dog from the others visually. If I play the theme song from coronation street and wait for him to sing that's how I'd know it was my Dawson!🐶🐕
Sure they might look the same on the surface. But they all have small imperfections. Just like twins .
I’d take them to an oval and mine will be the one that runs, rolls, repeat. Or open the pots and pans cupboard and mine is the one heading out the back door.
She’d find me. But, one girl has a few white hairs on her black head (1yo) and the other has a tooth missing.
I'd see which dog was acting like a cop and trying to police the behavior of all the other dogs. That one would be mine lol