Posted on 09/02/2014 3:17:05 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg
Several people in my area have noted that their pets are acting weird. The behavior usually amounts to staring out windows and doors whining and shivering and hiding under tables and other furniture etc. .
Or if they are outside they badly want inside even though they never do much any other time.
They also keep tails tucked and sort of slink around like they are in distress.
This is not one or two people but my count has over 20 different households within a ten mile radius that have pets acting in the same way for about 3 days now.
My dog can not seem to settle down and wants to be as close as he can get to me and the Missus. Some thought it is the festival in town but it just set up Yesterday and the behavior has been going on longer than that. And we had no such behavior last year reported.
We are all at a loss and the local vet has no idea but he tells us dogs and cats can sense stuff humans can't.
From my insomniac days, I remember the same shows. Cats and dogs are aware of many things we are not. I know one dog who knows a thunderstorm is coming before the clouds come in.
Just don’t go jogging in Metamora.
Where do you live?
I’ve seen my dog perk up and look at something behind me. And there was nothing there. [cur twilight zone music]
Also, somewhere along the line he got scared of flashing lights. He’s stone deaf but he gets awfully nervous in a thunder storm from the flashing lightning. Scared of cameras too because he’s learned to associate them with the flash.
Southern Ohio (in the middle Jackson County)
Have you checked to see if there are any demons or aliens skulking about? Cuz that'll do it.
I don't know how cats reacted ...
We had an earthquake dog. She was a boxer and every once in a while I’d find her hiding in the closet. A few days later.......earthquake.
Rescue Remedy (available at GNC) works very well for it. Takes the edge right off and seems pretty harmless.
When we had the earthquake in VA (I'm in MD but our town had damage from it), he sat in front of me and didn't seem the slightest bit fazed before, during or after.
Maybe he smells a predator? Lots of them around these days.
My kitties knew nor’easters and hurricanes, and the vet.
Oh did they know the vet.
Didn’t the last New Madrid quake ring church bells in Boston? (This was back when Boston had churches, of course.)
Shoot hope it's not anything real bad...my daughter is down in Cincinnati.
Wabash fault would give you a shake.
There was a 5.4 a few years ago that shook Cincinnatti, Evansville and even as far West as Cape Girardeau.
And, if we have a repeat of 1811-1812 New Madrid - then almost everything East of the Mississippi is going to move.
But animals close to the NMZ out where I live are not acting spooked, so you might a have a closer issue.
Alien abduction on a couple of their canine friends?
Thank you. It was so long ago, I thought I might have been mistaken.
Art really believed in pets being psychic, he loved his kitty cam.
That list reminds me of the list an old rancher told me about that lists the things horses are scared of.
Things that horses are scared of:
1. Things that move.
2. Things that don't move.
Movce out the Korean family(rimshot)
Animals behave strangely just before earth quakes or other weird weather patterns.
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