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dogs and weather
Macula is currently standing on the deck: tail down (unusual), rumbly little
growls emanating from her throat, and just the smallest amount of hackles raised around the ruff of her neck. The weather channel is predicting "possible thunder storms" for this afternoon. Do you think she knows? She's never been *frightened* of storms, but she doesn't really like them either--she'll lean against us more if we're sitting during one and is not really interested in play or treats during them. I trust the weather network to be accurate about 30% of the time. My sinuses (which ache before storms) I figure have about a 50% accuracy rate. I wonder how accurate Macula might be? Are any of your dogs good weather vanes? Marie |
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In article .rogers.com,
Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - If the Bush tax cuts really create 300,000 jobs/month through 2004, it will have cost $871,046 per job |
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In article .rogers.com,
Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - If the Bush tax cuts really create 300,000 jobs/month through 2004, it will have cost $871,046 per job |
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In article .rogers.com,
Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - If the Bush tax cuts really create 300,000 jobs/month through 2004, it will have cost $871,046 per job |
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In article .rogers.com,
Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - If the Bush tax cuts really create 300,000 jobs/month through 2004, it will have cost $871,046 per job |
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
... In article .rogers.com, Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. That's interesting. Most wildlife has the opposite reaction to an approaching storm. They will go on a feeding frenzy - stay out feeding long past times that they would normally have searched out beds. I've had dogs growl back at distant thunder - but once it gets closer they're better at recognizing it. DH and a friend were on a backpack hunting trip and found that they both had made their way back to camp in the middle of the day - in time to get battened down before the late afternoon storm hit. Neither one had made a conscious decision to return to camp but they both did. And I find that wind makes most animals nervous. (And boy do we have wind today!) They can't trust their nose or their ears so they tend to seek out secure places. -- ~~Judy "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." -- Roger Caras |
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
... In article .rogers.com, Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. That's interesting. Most wildlife has the opposite reaction to an approaching storm. They will go on a feeding frenzy - stay out feeding long past times that they would normally have searched out beds. I've had dogs growl back at distant thunder - but once it gets closer they're better at recognizing it. DH and a friend were on a backpack hunting trip and found that they both had made their way back to camp in the middle of the day - in time to get battened down before the late afternoon storm hit. Neither one had made a conscious decision to return to camp but they both did. And I find that wind makes most animals nervous. (And boy do we have wind today!) They can't trust their nose or their ears so they tend to seek out secure places. -- ~~Judy "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." -- Roger Caras |
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
... In article .rogers.com, Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. That's interesting. Most wildlife has the opposite reaction to an approaching storm. They will go on a feeding frenzy - stay out feeding long past times that they would normally have searched out beds. I've had dogs growl back at distant thunder - but once it gets closer they're better at recognizing it. DH and a friend were on a backpack hunting trip and found that they both had made their way back to camp in the middle of the day - in time to get battened down before the late afternoon storm hit. Neither one had made a conscious decision to return to camp but they both did. And I find that wind makes most animals nervous. (And boy do we have wind today!) They can't trust their nose or their ears so they tend to seek out secure places. -- ~~Judy "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." -- Roger Caras |
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
... In article .rogers.com, Marie wrote: Do you think she knows? Sure - the dogs can tell that the pressure is dropping. My guys don't want to be outside during the 8 hours or so before a front comes through, and Emmett, who normally does love his food, won't eat. That's interesting. Most wildlife has the opposite reaction to an approaching storm. They will go on a feeding frenzy - stay out feeding long past times that they would normally have searched out beds. I've had dogs growl back at distant thunder - but once it gets closer they're better at recognizing it. DH and a friend were on a backpack hunting trip and found that they both had made their way back to camp in the middle of the day - in time to get battened down before the late afternoon storm hit. Neither one had made a conscious decision to return to camp but they both did. And I find that wind makes most animals nervous. (And boy do we have wind today!) They can't trust their nose or their ears so they tend to seek out secure places. -- ~~Judy "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." -- Roger Caras |
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In article ,
Judy wrote: That's interesting. Most wildlife has the opposite reaction to an approaching storm. They will go on a feeding frenzy - stay out feeding long past times that they would normally have searched out beds. Horses in a windstorm - boy, that's some kind of fun. (Just kidding!) DH and a friend were on a backpack hunting trip and found that they both had made their way back to camp in the middle of the day - in time to get battened down before the late afternoon storm hit. Neither one had made a conscious decision to return to camp but they both did. If you spend a lot of time outside you develop a pretty good sense about what's going on with the weather, etc. I grew up sailing and for some reason always know where north is and can generally tell what's going to happen with the weather over the next 12 hours or so. The dogs, though, feel it in their bones and let it affect their behavior in very big ways. The cats don't seem as bothered by it, although they do get squirrely during a storm. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - If the Bush tax cuts really create 300,000 jobs/month through 2004, it will have cost $871,046 per job |
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