Can She Be A Mini Me

[Lynn in TN]

How can an animal be so human like? Or is it that I am Cairn like? Can Kelly really be a mini me? She has so many mannerisms like me. She acts so much like me at times it is scary. I don't know if she is really like me or if it is just she is so smart she mimics me to get things she wants. lol

I was laying on the bed corner to corner on my stomach, feet crossed, reading this forum, Kelly is always with me of course. (unless someone is in the kitchen then her loyalty to me stops and she is with them in the kitchen. haha) Anyway I turn around to see what she is doing. Low and behold she is lay corner to corner and I noticed her back paws are crossed right paw over left paw. I've seen her lay this way a lot and didn't think much of it. I turn just a little more and look at my feet right foot crossed over left the way I always lay. Except for the fact my head is at the head of the bed and her head is at the foot of the bed she is laying exactly the way I am. lol

 

[bradl]

That is cute.

[hheldorfer]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[pkcrossley]

maybe recent research has disproved this, but it used to be reported that wolves never smile, but domesticated dogs do, and they pick it up from their human companions. they grin in the same circumstances they see humans grin --trying to charm, trying to defuse, trying to show harmlessness, or just being happy. if dogs can get that far, why not imitate others of human behaviors, including body posture? tone of voice (cairns certainly shout back at people who shout at them)? 

[bradl]

Our Cairns appear to be copying my coiffure.  

[Hillscreek]

When we play tug Angus growls his fun growl. I growl back saying rooaarr, then he growls again, tail going, eyes sparkling.People would think I was nuts if they could see/hear us

[Lynn in TN]

On August 19, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Hillscreek said:

When we play tug Angus growls his fun growl. I growl back saying rooaarr, then he growls again, tail going, eyes sparkling.People would think I was nuts if they could see/hear us

Same at this house too. I growl, bite, whatever she does to me I do right back at her. I also do the little play/bow/prance thing to get her to play. It's what she uses on me to get me to play. One of these days I'll have one of the kids to video it and I'll post it.