Seeing things that aren't there?

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Apologies if this has been done before, and for the badly worded title! It's a hard one to describe.

Last night me and my dog were home alone and for several hours she wouldn't settle. She was sitting next to me on the settee and just staring right past me, as if there was someone standing directly behind me. There was the odd grumble (you know, that lazy growl) and her eyes were following something round the room behind me. Weird.
We came to bed and she wouldn't settle in her bed, she wanted to sit on our bed, right next to me, on top of the covers. She stayed like this for a couple of hours, sitting bolt upright, staring into the darkness of our bedroom, again the odd grumble but that's it.

Needless to say I was a little freaked out, she's not done it before so intensely. It's possible she could have been watching and waiting for my husband to come home, but even once he returned in the early hours her bedside vigil continued.

She's since, now morning has broken, retired to her bed and is snoring away.
 
Canine tips on how to freak out your human - stare for a good few hours at something that isn't them and isn't anyone but is near them. Keep staring and after a few hours your pet human will go insane thinking there are ghosts and monsters that only you can see!


What they don't know is that you're just trying to work out what the heck that thing on the wall actually is - that picture/clock/spider/cobweb - is really interesting!



If anything when it comes to dogs and vision, from what little I know, we can likely see way more than them. Their vision system isn't as good as our own and, from what I understand, we see a wider range of variations in colour as well. Of course they make up for it with a vastly superior nose.
 
That would freak me out especially if I was in on my own, I know if for some reason my oh is not home in the evenings or over night the dog is much more jumpy it's almost like she knows I am alone and needs to protect me more than usual, when I give the horses there late hay net she will often run at the gate and bark like some one or something is there, they do love to scare the life out of you don't they!
 
She could probably hear or smell something outside/off in the distance that was bothering her. Just don't use the phrase "I'll be right back!" and make sure to stay out of the attic/cellar/walk-in wardrobe full of clown dolls and you'll be fine, OP :D
 
Eek! Haha yes perhaps I scared myself a little. She was just looking into the corner our the living room, not out a window. And when she was in the bedroom again just staring into the darkness towards the door. OH is here this evening so hopefully won't have any of her antics tonight! 😳👻
 
Whether 'see' is the right word, I'm not sure, but there have certainly been times when I've had dogs appearing to focus on or watch something which I simply can't see. I think that ghosts or spirits do exist and as they don't bother me, so I mostly ignore it.

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What age is your dog? I only ask as my old boy used to do this and it turned out to be something to do with him going a bit senile through age related illness and congestive heart failure. He started doing it long before he was diagnosed.
 
I've told this story before but it did freak me out a little!

Xmas Eve and i've been watching tv in bed, turned it off and snuggled up into my duvet. I heard a man's voice clear as day right next to me saying 'i'm sorry.'
Jumped up thinking it was my brother that lives with me and that i'd not heard him knock before entering.

Then I can hear Mrs Spaniel growling, a deep angry growl. I get out of bed and she's sitting bolt upright in her bed out in the hall staring at the wall growling. I called her and she didn't respond, walked past her, downstairs and checked the house as am proper freaked out now.
Back upstairs and she's not growling but still staring at the wall. I called to her and she glanced at me, back at the wall and then came over.

Needless to say she spent the night in my bed that night!!
 
Could her stomach have been hurting? ive seen other species stare at apparently nothing, be grumpy and unsettled due to stomach ache. I call it staring into their belly lol
 
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