Should i be worried or do i just have a strange dog?

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My terrier x has started to become even stranger, he has always had little quirks ie will not go near any Butchers goes into a panic and tries to run the other way, the only way i can get him past with out re enforcing it by picking him up is just to jog past and once past and he calms down tell him good boy. He has always been a wuss thinks he is big and hard but anything strange he goes up to it crouched down and cautious.

Any way about a month ago i had a big clear out under my bed got rid of alot of things and now there is loads of room under it Gizmo now just takes himself off curls in a ball under the bed even if im in the room with him then downstairs he takes himself behind the sofa and just sleeps or sits there i dont make a fuss just leave him to it. Do you think he just likes his own space and likes to take himself off ( he does like to sit in the garden and watch the world go by even in rain ).

Thanks
 
Not strange at all.:) One of my lurchers loves sleeping under cushions, blankets, duvets etc. My terrier adored his cage which was covered with a blanket. Your dog sounds very sensible, he takes himself off to a quiet corner to sleep.:)
 
Don't think you need to be worried, my old dalmatian girlie used to lie under the dining table all the time regardless of who was at home or the fact she had 3 dog beds of her own ! if she came into the living room she would always go behind the sofa and lay down and sleep and she would never walk past a wheelie bin without barking at it, despite seeing our own on a daily basis !
 
My terrier used to love burrowing into stuff. Usually the bed, but had an igloo large cat bed she liked & regularly dug out dens in hay & straw.
 
Thank you he does love sleeping under the quilt infact you even have to kick him out when hot he just pants away does not put two and two together and think well if i get out of the quilt i will cool down.

The going under the bed is a new thing and he has also decided he is scared of flys and will now hide until they have gone.

Will someone please tell him he is a killer terrier !!!!!
 
dingle12 said:
he is scared of flys and will now hide until they have gone.
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LMAO so is Ozzie (JRT)!! Runs upstairs to hide if one downstairs (even if it is a very little house fly). Also has to be bribed to go in my new horsebox as the 1st time he got in the cab there was a fly in there!!!:eek:
 
My terrier was an efficient killer, but still refused to eat anything that wasn't broke into tiny puppy size mouthfuls. Or get in water, even for a rat. My dobie x is scared of cats if they hiss, & one cat (at 18mnths old) runs & hides from birds or large wind up cat toys.
 
Well my hero dog hunts down flies and eats them, yuck. But he is like a horse out on a walk. Snowmen terrifying, dodgy plastic bags etc, all very scary.
And he also absolutely needs his own space. If he deigns to join me in living room, he burrows behind chair by a window. Much prefers sleeping behind curtain that I pull over front door.
His mother was the complete opposite. She just wanted to be with anyone, basically, preferably sitting on top of them. It was all 'love me'!
The son, however, wants to be alone. Strange, eh?
 
I think all dogs have it within themselves to have their own wee quirks. My border terrier sometimes gets obsessed with my shoe closet. In the middle of the night he will leave a nice comfy bed (choice of basket next to the radiator, or at the foot of my bed, or even under the duvet in my bed) to go and rummage round my cold hard shoes and try to make himself a nest in there?! I hear the shoes being clumped and rustled about which is what wakes me up - and I could drag him out of there but if I don't close the door tightly enough, sure enough he'll climb back in! Weirdo boy! :rolleyes:
 
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