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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
This started Thursday evening. My 3.5 year old Boykin Spaniel will
not sit still or sleep. She keeps pacing around like she's deathly afraid of something. Every now and then, she'll take off running like something tried to get her. She only seems to be content when she is sitting directly on top of us. Over the past two nights, she may have slept a total of 2 hours. We've been to the vet twice and they can't seem to find anything wrong with her. My wife says it looks like she's afraid of a ghost or something. It's absolutely killing me to see her like this. Anyone got any ideas of what might cause something like this? |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
WakeBdr spoke these words of wisdom in
: This started Thursday evening. My 3.5 year old Boykin Spaniel will not sit still or sleep. She keeps pacing around like she's deathly afraid of something. Every now and then, she'll take off running like something tried to get her. She only seems to be content when she is sitting directly on top of us. Over the past two nights, she may have slept a total of 2 hours. We've been to the vet twice and they can't seem to find anything wrong with her. My wife says it looks like she's afraid of a ghost or something. It's absolutely killing me to see her like this. Anyone got any ideas of what might cause something like this? You might get your house wiring checked? |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
diddy wrote:
You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower To reply, unleash the dogs. |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in
: diddy wrote: You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw Because if something is going awry in the wiring, a dog might notice with a human unaware. My dogs started acting wierd a couple years ago. Danny, who had alerted us to TWO fires, seemed very attuned to those kind of things. He started pacing, and had an unexplained restlessness. Since he currently was in a state where he was already having medical issues, we assumed his restlessness was from a known cause. But then something tipped us off that there was a household wiring problem of serious nature. We called in an electrician who fixed the problem and suddenly Danny stopped his wierd restless behavior. We didn't associate the behaviors until the problem was fixed and Danny returned to normal. So although we never proved Danny was trying to tell us something was wrong, and this dog HAS been checked by a vet.. I maintain.. just something icky and squicky in the back of my mind.. niggles and jiggles, and tells me to suggest getting their wiring checked. Can't prove anything.. just a hunch. It might save their lives. It sounds so whacked out, I'm embarrassed to explain it. But since you asked.. |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
"diddy" none wrote in message . .. FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in : diddy wrote: You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw Because if something is going awry in the wiring, a dog might notice with a human unaware. My dogs started acting wierd a couple years ago. Danny, who had alerted us to TWO fires, seemed very attuned to those kind of things. He started pacing, and had an unexplained restlessness. Since he currently was in a state where he was already having medical issues, we assumed his restlessness was from a known cause. But then something tipped us off that there was a household wiring problem of serious nature. We called in an electrician who fixed the problem and suddenly Danny stopped his wierd restless behavior. We didn't associate the behaviors until the problem was fixed and Danny returned to normal. So although we never proved Danny was trying to tell us something was wrong, and this dog HAS been checked by a vet.. I maintain.. just something icky and squicky in the back of my mind.. niggles and jiggles, and tells me to suggest getting their wiring checked. Can't prove anything.. just a hunch. It might save their lives. It sounds so whacked out, I'm embarrassed to explain it. But since you asked.. You may have a valid point there. A bad connection in a switch or outlet could be arcing and making high pitched noises beyond human hearing, or generate ozone that a dog might be able to detect. There could also be flickering in lights that the dog might detect, or heat coming from an outlet that is located where humans might not notice. There could also be unusual noises from an appliance that is starting to make noise. Anything with a motor in it, like a refrigerator, fan, or even a clock, could produce a noise that a dog would notice as something awry. Other possibilities are mice or other animals scratching inside the walls or under the floor, or an outside source of humanly inaudible noise. Maybe a sound amplifier might pick up such noises. I think there are some that will lower the pitch of sounds to make them audible to humans. Other possibilities are that a family member may be sick, and could have a special odor that could indicate an infection or even cancer. There was a recent news story where a family's dog suddenly started making the parents pay special attention to their young child, and she was found to have leukemia. Once it was treated, and she went into remission, the dog returned to normal behavior (and was hailed as a hero). It would be interesting to see if this dog exhibits the same behavior at someone else's house, or even in another room. Paul and Muttley |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
diddy wrote:
FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in : diddy wrote: You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw Because if something is going awry in the wiring, a dog might notice with a human unaware. My dogs started acting wierd a couple years ago. Danny, who had alerted us to TWO fires, seemed very attuned to those kind of things. He started pacing, and had an unexplained restlessness. Since he currently was in a state where he was already having medical issues, we assumed his restlessness was from a known cause. But then something tipped us off that there was a household wiring problem of serious nature. We called in an electrician who fixed the problem and suddenly Danny stopped his wierd restless behavior. We didn't associate the behaviors until the problem was fixed and Danny returned to normal. So although we never proved Danny was trying to tell us something was wrong, and this dog HAS been checked by a vet.. I maintain.. just something icky and squicky in the back of my mind.. niggles and jiggles, and tells me to suggest getting their wiring checked. Can't prove anything.. just a hunch. It might save their lives. It sounds so whacked out, I'm embarrassed to explain it. But since you asked.. I'd start with putting fresh batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and not just because of the possibility of a wiring problem. When the battery in the smoke detector in our hallway is getting weak it begins emitting periodic chirps; easy for me to miss, at least at first, amid the noises of a busy household. Zane notices it right away, though. The first time I saw him react I thought he was nuts. He spun around, stared at the ceiling (I thought) and barked. |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
On Jan 6, 7:00*am, Kathleen wrote:
diddy wrote: FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in : diddy wrote: You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw Because if something is going awry in the wiring, a dog might notice with a human unaware. My dogs started acting wierd a couple years ago. Danny, who had alerted us to TWO fires, seemed very attuned to those kind of things. He started pacing, and had an unexplained restlessness. Since he currently was in a state where he was already having medical issues, we assumed his restlessness was from a known cause. But then something tipped us off that there was a household wiring problem of serious nature. We called in an electrician who fixed the problem and suddenly Danny stopped his wierd restless behavior. We didn't associate the behaviors until the problem was fixed and Danny returned to normal. So although we never proved Danny was trying to tell us something was wrong, and this dog HAS been checked by a vet.. I maintain.. just something icky and squicky in the back of my mind.. niggles and jiggles, and tells me to suggest getting their wiring checked. Can't prove anything.. just a hunch. It might save their lives. *It sounds so whacked out, I'm embarrassed to explain it. But since you asked.. I'd start with putting fresh batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and not just because of the possibility of a wiring problem. When the battery in the smoke detector in our hallway is getting weak it begins emitting periodic chirps; easy for me to miss, at least at first, amid the noises of a busy household. *Zane notices it right away, though. *The first time I saw him react I thought he was nuts. *He spun around, stared at the ceiling (I thought) and barked.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - This is a good point. I've known two dogs who were scared/alarmed of that repeating little beep coming from a smoke detector with a low battery. One was just a bit anxious, the other dog was absolutely petrified (wide eyed, shivering, rapid pacing, panting). I don't know what is so darn scary about that beep but it certainly weirds some dogs out. Chris and her two smoothies, Pablo and Lucy |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
ChrisJ wrote:
On Jan 6, 7:00 am, Kathleen wrote: diddy wrote: FurPaw spoke these words of wisdom in : diddy wrote: You might get your house wiring checked? Why? (Not contentious, curious). FurPaw Because if something is going awry in the wiring, a dog might notice with a human unaware. My dogs started acting wierd a couple years ago. Danny, who had alerted us to TWO fires, seemed very attuned to those kind of things. He started pacing, and had an unexplained restlessness. Since he currently was in a state where he was already having medical issues, we assumed his restlessness was from a known cause. But then something tipped us off that there was a household wiring problem of serious nature. We called in an electrician who fixed the problem and suddenly Danny stopped his wierd restless behavior. We didn't associate the behaviors until the problem was fixed and Danny returned to normal. So although we never proved Danny was trying to tell us something was wrong, and this dog HAS been checked by a vet.. I maintain.. just something icky and squicky in the back of my mind.. niggles and jiggles, and tells me to suggest getting their wiring checked. Can't prove anything.. just a hunch. It might save their lives. It sounds so whacked out, I'm embarrassed to explain it. But since you asked.. It makes eminent sense to me. Wiring or connections going awry might give off sounds or smells that we hoomins can't hear. I'd start with putting fresh batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and not just because of the possibility of a wiring problem. When the battery in the smoke detector in our hallway is getting weak it begins emitting periodic chirps; This is a good point. I've known two dogs who were scared/alarmed of that repeating little beep coming from a smoke detector with a low battery. One was just a bit anxious, the other dog was absolutely petrified (wide eyed, shivering, rapid pacing, panting). I don't know what is so darn scary about that beep but it certainly weirds some dogs out. A beeping/chirping/clicking smoke detector weirds my dogs out, too. In our previous house, one started going off in the basement. We couldn't hear it from upstairs but the dogs certainly did, and it took a couple of days to figure out what was driving them nuts. FurPaw -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower To reply, unleash the dogs. |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
On Jan 6, 1:38*am, WakeBdr wrote:
This started Thursday evening. *My 3.5 year old Boykin Spaniel will not sit still or sleep. *She keeps pacing around like she's deathly afraid of something. *Every now and then, she'll take off running like something tried to get her. *She only seems to be content when she is sitting directly on top of us. *Over the past two nights, she may have slept a total of 2 hours. *We've been to the vet twice and they can't seem to find anything wrong with her. *My wife says it looks like she's afraid of a ghost or something. It's absolutely killing me to see her like this. *Anyone got any ideas of what might cause something like this My 1 year old staffi is the same. like tonight we went to bed as normal and bout half hour later he is running round like summat demented, tried ignoring him and he just wants to be on top of me, but when i fuss him he is very reluctant. This started for us that when we first got him he slept in the kitchen then through trust we let him have the run of the downstairs, only sleeping with us at weekends as we always have a house full of friends. then one week day he decided he would scratch at the downstairs door. We let him up as were working and didnt need sleepless nights. then bout 2 weeks later he woke me up panting. Now i thort he was horny. but there was no other signs apart from the panting. I think this is now as he is too hot. (even though i will put him out side...take him for walks at 2 in the morning and he STILL pants!!!) when he was panting he always had to be like on my face!! (very annoying!!!) Now in the last two weeks he hasnt been panting but always looks down our hallway towards the back bedroom and bathroon (a area of the house i cant say i like the feel of to be honest.....just summat creepy...) and keeps being sick....only bringing bile up and always on the back bedroom spare bed (how minging?!?!?) In the evening he dont spend them with us on the sofa like he always has....he would ratha but upstairs in either our room or backroom. Another thing he has never chewed anything from the day we got him but now he has got the thing for capets (like the new one we only put down 3 weeks ago in the bedroon) when we are out! I really do not no what to do with him as he gets lots of walks and always running round on backgarden so he has to be atleast a little tired. Any suggestions on that one?! |
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My dog is scared and won't sit still or sleep!!!
"montana wildhack" wrote in message news:2008010919525250073-montana@wildhackcominvalid... On 2008-01-09 19:28:39 -0500, said: Any suggestions on that one?! See a vet? yes, these dogs sound like they may be in pain. |
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