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[Jacie]

Not just animals! It's people too! Just ask a police officer or an ER attendant!

[vermint]

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@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:

@vermint  We had several dogs that were "Bark like crazy and then run".

We had an Australian Shepard that you thought was going to tear you apart until you saw him barking..........while running to hide under the porch.

Our Bassett/Springer Spaniel (quite a combo) barked like a maniac when we came home, anyone else, not a peep. Not a guard dog. Had robbers come in he would have helped them carry out the silver if they gave him a milk bone.

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@CrazyKittyLvr2 This sounds like my dog...if you give him a milk bone, he'll love you forever! But honestly, if robbers heard his bark (seriously scary) I don't think they'd come in at all! That's what I'm hoping, anyway, lol.

[CrazyKittyLvr2]

@vermint   Well McGee thought anyone coming to the house was there to see him.  That 1/2 Bassett backside was wagging for all it was worth if someone new came. It never occurred to him to bark at anyone............but us.

For us the the barking started when he heard us coming on the porch, thief, well, dead silence but at the door wagging.  If the little derp had thumbs he would have opened the door.

[Lucky Charm]

My cats sleep 90% of the day.  At this point, I'm not going to complain.

[qvcaddition]

Wow.  My dog who usually sits at night with me, would not stay in the living room, but went down the hall and sat staring.

She has never done that at night when we are really to settle down.  She usually lays by my side. 

Everytime I brought her in the living room, back she went down the end of the hall.

I sat and talk to her for awhile, petting her, because something was bothering her and she wasn't sick.

She would stare at me like she didn't know me.  No tail wags nothing.  It took about an hour of petting and holding and she returned to normal.

[RedTop]

Yes to new phases of the moon affecting animal activity.  There's a lot of different scents in the air at night as these animals move, so any outside dog is going to go crazy with barking over what they smell and see.

Typical mating season for fox, coyote, raccoon, skunk, opossum is from January thru March.  Any of these pregnant nocturnal animals are actively searching for food at night.  Deer are already pregnant and will start delivering fawns in May; they are eating machines right now and are searching for food sources around the clock.  Any area with green grass and tender green leaves on shrubs and fruit trees will draw a herd of deer.