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My dog is freaking me out
He's spent half of today going up and down the stairs growling at nothing, and ten minutes ago he went to each doorway upstairs and peed up each of the frames. He never pees in the house, and I very rarely hear him growl at anything other than the odd cat outside. And he's very restless. He can't seem to settle. Just pacing all over the house when he's not growling at the stairs.
We've had no visitors for a few days, no other animals in the house, the routine is the same it's always been, nothing different.
What could be causing him to do this? I'm vaguely worried he knows something we don't -- ie. someone's been in the house while we've been out...
We've had no visitors for a few days, no other animals in the house, the routine is the same it's always been, nothing different.
What could be causing him to do this? I'm vaguely worried he knows something we don't -- ie. someone's been in the house while we've been out...
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If he continues to exhibit this behaviour - I would look at a medical reason. I had a cat who suddenly acted totally out of character. The vet diagnosed mild epilepsy and he was fine on low level medication.
Hope he is ok in a day or so.....but I can imagine how his behaviour is freaking you out.
Once it occurred to us it could be that, we just moved it along out of her eyeline from the other room, and she has never bothered growling again.
Hope your problem has gone for good.:)
This time of year with all the fireworks has my wee boy dog a bundle of nerves. He hates loud noises at the best of times - he also has other issues with random things. Examples - we moved the table in the garden and he wouldn't go in the garden till it was moved back. He freaked when he heard the new baby next door crying. Perhaps fireworks or other unusual loud noises have been going on when your dog has been home alone and this has unsettled him.
Op, you haven't given your dog a flea treatment recently have you? One of my dogs had a couple of episodes, one where he was fixated on something I couldn't see, he looked totally out of it, couldn't hear me and nearly jumped out of his skin when I touched him. Couple of vets said maybe mild epilepsy and he'd probably need medication at some point. It was only though reading about other people's experiences online that I worked out that the episodes coincided with drop-on flea treatment prescribed by the vet. You'd think they'd have worked that out for themselves wouldn't you, makes you wonder how many pets are needlessly on epilepsy meds.
Anyway, if yes maybe he had a hallucination which freaked him and he pee'd up your doors to reestablish his territory.
Yeah, dogs and cats can really see spirtits. Really.
I don't have spirtits. My tits are quite normal
This would also be noticeable when out for a walk, more frequently marking posts, or scraping his bum on the ground, more eagre to get around pulling more on the lead etc.
ours wasn't like this at all, but he did wander up and down the hallway whining and howled at the door all through the night
the latter part was the final straw which sentenced his nuts to death
You need help. You're really miserable. Is it because it's coming up to Christmas? Are you lonesome?
Or, my post has scared you and you're in denial. Don't be scared, silly. Aww.
It would be so easy, were I a superstitious person, to think there was something lurking there that only they can see with their superhero doggy senses!
Could have been a mouse or something like that. I've got two terriers and they display the exact same behaviour (though they mark the territory outside) whenever they sense that another animal is outside. They sense it even though they're inside. And they've not been wrong so far. One of them caught and killed a rat that was hiding beneath a drain cover, and he was going berserk inside until we let him out and he went straight to the rat's hiding place and stood guard until it made its bolt from freedom.
our dog acts like this, minus the weeing inside, if there are any bitches on heat nearby.