I'm not very good yet at finding all of the new posts and I missed this! This is a good one!
Jax does the slapping the ground with the down command. He throws both of his paws in the air and then slams them on the down. We just thought it was his goofy-redheaded-puppy-self coming out, but he's still at it at 7 years young. He doesn't do it if he knows there's no treat, like if I give the command from the table or couch or something. Goober [emoji12]
He does the nose poke but only to hands or arms that are within reach...maybe a leg or head if those are more accessible [emoji6]
He's not a sucker or much of licker (we feel special if we get one kiss out of him), UNLESS he's licking himself. The first time he made a sore we took him to the vet and she told us that Dobermans were OCD and once they got started they couldn't stop. LOL he will occasionally suck a leg, but again not knowing it was "normal" for the dobe we always had him stop when we caught him. It's weird seeing your dog acting like his own leg is a chew thing!
He's also gotten very groany/whiney. He's always grunted and groaned but it's gotten baaaad. If he's not getting attention and he thinks he should...grunting and groaning ensues! He's really not very vocal otherwise. He almost never growls, even when he'd play with our JRT. She was the Tasmanian devil growling and biting and being generally grouchy, but he never got aggressive with her or growled back...we didn't think he had it in him to growl, but I finally heard it one day in the car when a dog walked by that he obviously didn't like. He only barks when outside at certain neighbor dogs.
Ooh speaking of him with our JRT...he would use his paws to move her where he wanted her! It was so funny because she was such a grouch a lot of the time. He'd be trying to play and she'd want no part, so he'd take a paw and put it over her side and pull her to him. Lol! You could tell she hated that...we thought it was adorable. She would usually just stay where he moved her and look at us like we were cruel for bringing this giant into her home. [emoji1]