Dogs acting weird

It's the wendigo......

Tracy, if it's pretty cold sound travels great distances and seems to come from every direction. I would wonder if one of your neighbors further away was operating a chainsaw, snowmobile or shooting.

We have a cougar/mnt lion that comes through here even though FW swears we dont know what we are seeing and that they dont exist. Even though the state has a man that specializes in them. When she screams everyone here goes o nthe defense. When I go out to the shop I know to take the pistol when the 4 German Sheps close in on me and stay on all sides. v

I let my beagle/jack russel cross out one morning on his chain and went out to get him and he was looking toward the northwest and growling that real, low, chesty growl. I called him to come in and he wouldn't turn his back to the NW and I went out to get him. He wouldn't turn to come in and got right up against my legs and I had to walk backwards to get him in the house. The minute I hit the porch I heard that scream. At first I thought it was a woman or a child but it was so early in the morning (like about 4:00 a.m.). At first I was going to call 911 then I remember where I had heard that sound before. Years before I lived up the hill from a creek and heard a scream that sounded like a woman. I had my three kids with me and a car full of groceries. Luckily for me a deputy friend of the family was calling the house and immediately upon hearing me answer the phone new there was something wrong and called the DEC. The guys called and told me they thought it was probably a bobcat and offered to come up and go down there. I told them no but was concerned about it coming closer because the tailgate on my vehicle was up and the car was loaded with groceries and a lot of meat. He said he didn't think it would come that close and to turn all the outside lights on I could. I'll never forget that sound as long as I live. They tell us we don't have bobcats in this area but back in 2006, I think, a guy had shot a deer but not killed it and when he went back to find it he found part of it up in a tree.

Hope everything is okay Tracy.

I wasd going to say the same thing. It was from like 1:30 a.m. to about 5 a.m. I got up to see it. It was some special kind of eclipse that only happens in the winter & hasn't happened since sometime in the 1600's.

Dog's sense all kinds of things, could be?

She's doing it again. Very weird.

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What a creepy thing. Makes it a bit better that you can't have "creepers" around your property cuz you're so open, but still.... Keep us posted!

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I have to chime in about the big cats, too. I have seen one near here. My dogs are usually on some kind of alert, and bark at coyotes, etc. But one night they were actually worried. Totally different, like yours. I tend to think it's that cat, something they may have never seen before, but know it's bad.

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Hi Tracy! I read this post from top to bottom, it's very interesting and weird for sure. Both of my dogs are blind and deaf, but once in a while they'll both lift their heads and stare at the wall. I've watched paranormal documentaries that say animals can sense a spirit in the area. That doesn't creep me out, because my own personal beliefs are that our energies remain after we pass on, I guess others might call it our soul or our spirit. I'm a skywatcher too, so I tried to see if it was because of full moons and such, but it's a very erratic kind of behaviour....interesting to read people's ideas though.

I did have another thought. You know, the dogs' sense of smell is amazing, I've read up to a million times greater than our own. I thought that maybe, in my boys' case, that when the wind blows a certain direction, there is a draft and some kind of odour catches their attention? Something I personally can't smell?

I also regularly check out Natural Resources Canada, I'm a geology nut, and this is the seismic activity experienced over the last month:



I'm north of Montreal, and though we may not feel all the earthquakes, the dogs could sense a rumble we don't know about...

Anyway, just a thought, but I'm still investigating!!

Interesting thoughts, Rain -- as for the seismic activity, I'm just right of centre in that big blank spot in the middle of the country, so I'm pretty sure that it's not that.

Today, they're not so much looking in one particular direction as they are acting generally bothered about something. They're really fussy, don't want to let me out of their sight, and are doing the inside/outside thing CONSTANTLY. They go outside, stand on the back porch, and listen, ears up, then seem to shrink down with as though frightened or on alert (doggie owners will know what I mean by this, I hope ) and want in. Two minutes later, they want out again.

When they're inside, they want to be ON me. Wrex sits at my feet wherever I am, and pushes his face into my leg, and Lucy is on full alert, staying between me and any sound she hears, including the coffee maker gurgling as it brews and the washing machine changing cycles She's done the chesty growl thing a couple of times, too, but not in any one direction. She's been doing the "please" thing again today, too, although not so much as last time.

It's just weird, and I'm sure that there is a perfectly rational explanation, but when she sits there growling at nothing, it kind of freaks me out.

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I tell ya, its the magnetic poles shifting....

My Spencer takes his cue from Winston. Spencer could be lying quite comfortably, and if Winston gets uppity, Spencer follows suit. The vet told me that dogs get very clingy with age, but that doesn't explain your 4 year old and 9 month old...

sheesh...glad I don't have a dog right now!! and I too am thinking "spirits"...animals are so tuned into things,,,maybe say a prayer with the dog right beside you...see what that does...creepy all right...

Winter... any chance you have a varmit or a feral cat or something trying to get into your walls? Or under you house to stay warm?

Cindyc.

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Geez, I hope not.... under our house is our basement We live in a brick house, and it's pretty tight, so I don't think it's anything like that. I've never seen a mouse in the house, EVER.... but I suppose it could be that.

I've checked for tracks in case it's a larger critter outside, and there is nothing but the dogs. Could be something I missed, though.

I know I need to listen to them -- that's what we have them for, after all, to let me know when there is a problem, but it's pretty annoying when there doesn't seem to BE a problem. I know -- it's not their fault I'm too dumb to understand what they mean, but I sure do wish they could talk sometimes!

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Oh if they could talk! I was also thinking about mice in the walls or something like that. We had chipmunks in the walls at one point, and it drove my dogs nuts.

I was going to suggest something paranormal as well. I was the founder of CTGH (largest paranormal research team in TX) and we did a brief paranormal animal research study with Animal Planet last year. It's amazing what critters sense. Not trying to spook you.. but aside from paranormal, there is always electromagnetic things, vibrations that we can't feel, and/or sounds (low level or high level humming etc similar to dog whistle) that might be bothering them. Hope you can figure it out soon!

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How would I go about figuring out something like that?

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On another forum I sometimes visit, there was a long thread yesterday about everyone hearing a sound, like a low deep rumble or motor running. They were upset because it wouldn't quit or stop and just kept going, yet they couldn't pinpoint a direction it was coming from. The original poster was in Chicago, but there were folks from Canada responding, along with upper US states saying they were hearing this sound too. I didn't check back on the thread last night, but last I read, no one had figured it out and the sound was still going.

I'll go on and post the link about the rumbling noise, but be forewarned that it's a forum that doesn't have limits on language used. Read at your own risk.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/fo...age1319506/pg1