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progree

(10,864 posts)
Wed May 17, 2017, 12:58 AM May 2017

"We Know He's Up There'' - Family Says Their Dog Willingly Spends His Time on Roof (pix,

The golden retriever named Huck, short for Huckleberry, loves spending much of his day on the roof.

Other dogs in the neighborhood gaze at him and look a little jealous, they also probably wonder, like most humans, how he got up there.

The sight of Huck on the roof is a viral sensation, and social media has been flooded with photos of the dog sitting there, just chilling out.

...

Motorists who drive by the house are sometimes taken aback because they think Huck is stranded, according to his owners, Justin and Allie Lindenmuth.

... So many people ring the bell that a note has been posted on their door that reads: “We appreciate your concern but please do not knock on our door, we know he's up there.”


Video and pix at link -

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-says-dog-willingly-spends-212800117.html





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"We Know He's Up There'' - Family Says Their Dog Willingly Spends His Time on Roof (pix, (Original Post) progree May 2017 OP
Nearer my squirrels to thee. Scurrilous May 2017 #1
You win at Internets shenmue May 2017 #5
"Keep Austin Weird" Rhythm May 2017 #2
OMG I had a german shepard that did this same thing! luvMIdog May 2017 #3
Message deleted by DU the Administrators OregonBlue May 2017 #4
Long ago I was a roofer central scrutinizer May 2017 #6
For certain reasons..this may be the greatest post ever...Here is why Stuart G May 2017 #7
Thanks. Glad to hear it is a day-brightener, as it is for me, likewise your post :-) progree May 2017 #8
I had a beagle named Daphne that liked our neighbors roof. PufPuf23 May 2017 #9
Often, or occasionally,..dogs are better people than some people...nt Stuart G May 2017 #10
Neat dog PufPuf Wawannabe May 2017 #11
sounds like one hell of a dog rurallib May 2017 #17
I do love goldens. GeorgeGist May 2017 #12
We know he is up there! Wawannabe May 2017 #13
Roof, roof, roof, roof.... N_E_1 for Tennis May 2017 #14
its better than a car ride. pansypoo53219 May 2017 #15
Or being on Mitt Romney's car's rooftop, if that is what you are referring to ;-) progree May 2017 #16
We had a cat named Roof Kitty that did that all day as well. NightWatcher May 2017 #18
Driving in our neighborhood one day, my husband and I saw a cat on a roof (not hot tin, :-P). We, WinkyDink May 2017 #19

luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)
3. OMG I had a german shepard that did this same thing!
Wed May 17, 2017, 03:58 AM
May 2017

I wish I still had the picture I'd post it but I lost it when my house burned down. My dog would grab his way up a slightly slanted tree and get up there and bark at people LOL

central scrutinizer

(11,617 posts)
6. Long ago I was a roofer
Wed May 17, 2017, 01:33 PM
May 2017

The boss had a dog that could climb an extension ladder. He was always on the roof with us.

Stuart G

(38,359 posts)
7. For certain reasons..this may be the greatest post ever...Here is why
Wed May 17, 2017, 03:08 PM
May 2017

It hurts no one.
Is very interesting.
Is likable
Is fun to look at
Huck is obviously having fun.
The picture proves that the post is true.
Is totally about someone, I am sure we all like..a dog named Huck
Huck is smiling
It is easy to look at.
One feels good after reading this.....................greatest post ever..!!!!!!

PufPuf23

(8,687 posts)
9. I had a beagle named Daphne that liked our neighbors roof.
Wed May 17, 2017, 03:17 PM
May 2017

Daphne could get up on the rail of our deck and then get on top rail of wooden fence that joined with neighbors wooden fence and then onto to roof.

Daphne would lay on her back and sunbath and also communicate with neighbor's back yard dogs.

Sometime she would be in the neighbor's back yard playing with the dogs and would bark to be let out when we got home; the neighbor's yard was very secure to keep dogs in.

We (and neighbors) never saw Daphne get from roof to back yard but our theory and probably the reality was she would leap into this large shrub that would break her fall.

Otherwise she would just walk the fence back to the deck.

Good thing the neighbors liked Daphne. She had lots of personality. She could climb (and sit in the branches of) some trees too. A cyclone fence was a ladder to her. You could go to a children's playground with a slide and she would follow people up the ladder and take her turn on the slide. If her food or water bowl was empty, she would throw it at you with her teeth and bark. We backpacked often and Daphne loved horse poop. She would carry it down the trail in her mouth and only drop one specimen if she found one fresher. If you tried to get the poop away, she would eat it. She rolled in fresh cow pies. Once at work - I was a forester - she turned up about 15 feet away from me and another guy playing with a bear cub. I could continue about that dog.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
18. We had a cat named Roof Kitty that did that all day as well.
Thu May 18, 2017, 09:19 PM
May 2017

I even fed it daily by putting food directly on the roof.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
19. Driving in our neighborhood one day, my husband and I saw a cat on a roof (not hot tin, :-P). We,
Thu May 18, 2017, 09:36 PM
May 2017

thinking it wanted to come down, tried to lure it off. No luck; that cat just kept walking all around the whole roof!

So we waited for the absent owner. He finally arrived home, and we excitedly told him, "Your cat is on your ROOF!" His reply?

"I don't have a cat."

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