Stuff Dogs Like – Butt Tucking! The Crazies! Zooms!

What exactly is “butt-tucking”, you ask?

First, not all Labs do the butt-tucking thing, and some of them tend to grow out of this funny behavior as they grow older.  Butt-tucking or “The Crazies,” or “The Zooms” as I named this wacky behavior is really quite fun to watch.  It happens when the dog kind of rounds its  hips, and “tucks” his/her behind under and runs as fast as he/she can as if the tail is doing the chasing!

 

One suggestion, if your Lab does the butt-tuck, get the heck out of the way!  There is no stopping a Lab in the middle of the Zooms!

Clover, now at the old age of 7, doesn’t get the Zooms all that often anymore.  She was expert at it as a puppy, and would Zoom up and down the stairs, around the garden, and behind the furniture and back up the stairs again.  Crazy is right!

Cosmo still Zooms.  He is 3 now, and his Zooms are fantastic.  I have never figured out what sets him off except he just “feels like a Zoom now.”  He will start off in the living room, head up the stairs, zoom into my bedroom and jump on the bed .. fly off the other side … back into the hallway … into the guest room … back down the stairs and around and around the living room.

Clover and Cosmo look so happy when they’re zooming about like nutjobs!  And, I cannot stop smiling either!  One note, it is nearly impossible to get a good Zoom photo!