Silliest thing that has made your dog react?

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

We were, as usual, on the recliner in the kitchen watching a film last night. There's a window across the front of the kitchen and a jasmine that has grown up the side of the window. A frond was waving across the window in the dark and made Goose growl! Silly pup, he must have thought it was an alien! I must chop off that frond tonight! What silly (to you, obviously not the dog) has made yours react?

 

[CorvusCorax]

The light reflecting off a road sign. My young female doesn't like Things Where Things Weren't There Before, which I blame on thin nerve and the fact that things were The Same for so long during covid.

 

[meleeka]

We were at Longleat House walking in the gardens and my JRT who was the bravest dog I’ve ever met, was terrified by a wooden sculpture of a bear. She growled and didn’t know whether to run away or not . She did look quite embarassed when she realised it wasn’t alive, which took a while.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Many years ago, walking my lab past an open gateway. She farted loudly, whipped around and looked behind her, growled into the open gateway and then tried to drag me down the lane at about 40 miles an hour. in fairness she did have an epic fart in her.

 

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Ellie used to be scared of the bins. Tbe evening walk the day before the binmen came was always interesting. SHe'd halfpass up the pavement growling. Got over it now thankfully, ridiculous creature.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Many years ago, walking my lab past an open gateway. She farted loudly, whipped around and looked behind her, growled into the open gateway and then tried to drag me down the lane at about 40 miles an hour. in fairness she did have an epic fart in her.

Bear frequently makes himself jump when he farts! It's like someone set off a bomb behind him!

 

[Spotherisk]

Rew entering his cage of his own volition one day, wearing his coat. Caught the coat on something on the way in, had a complete screaming meltdown panic attack and voided his anal glands in the process.

Living the dream…

Edited to add that he did look quite sheepish when I asked him ‘wtf are you doing?!’ We then had to go through some crate retraining!

 

[Clodagh]

We were at Longleat House walking in the gardens and my JRT who was the bravest dog I’ve ever met, was terrified by a wooden sculpture of a bear. She growled and didn’t know whether to run away or not . She did look quite embarassed when she realised it wasn’t alive, which took a while.

In Australia I used to walk the dogs in a crossbow range (not while in operation, obviously! ). It had 2 dimensional animals of all sorts, used to drive the dogs into a frenzy until the penny dropped. Then they peed on them.

 

[Jenko109]

Ugh, don't.

My BC x GSD is sensitive to noises.

She hates the noise of my bedside table draw opening. If she hears that, she will take herself downstairs. No idea why it started. Nothing sinister has ever happened and nothing lives in that draw that should concern her.

She also can be a bit silly about a whistle that one of the ladies uses with her dog in our agility class. Just the first time it gets blown, she will worry and put herself under my legs. She gets over it once she adapts to it being in use though.

She doesn't much like me cooking either. Will take herself upstairs if I am cooking.

 

[Clodagh]

Penny has major objections to silage bales.

 

[Clodagh]

She doesn't much like me cooking either. Will take herself upstairs if I am cooking.

Go on, just how bad is your cooking?

 

[Spanny]

Today, a wooden candle stick that was on the floor (where he'd knocked it over)...

 

[ArklePig]

Fodhla doesn't know what to do with blueberries but they are to be viewed with Deep Suspicion and then eventually attacked.

However, someone let off a firework while she was sleeping the other day and not a peep?

 

[ArklePig]

In Australia I used to walk the dogs in a crossbow range (not while in operation, obviously! ). It had 2 dimensional animals of all sorts, used to drive the dogs into a frenzy until the penny dropped. Then they peed on them.

Oh actually you've just reminded me of the wooden reindeer at Christmas. The only time I've seen her lunge/growl

Real deer are apparently fine.

 

[Sparky Lily]

We had a black cocker spaniel who disliked other black dogs. We came across a mirror in a bric-a-brac yard one day. Oh dear.

 

[Barton Bounty]

The BT advert on TV that has swirling motions, she thinks they are coming for her and ducks we do have a 65 inch telly so maybe she has a point

 

[JBM]

It was dark she turned around saw me in the dark and shat herself

 

[CanteringCarrot]

I received an alert (barking), so I looked around the corner (outside, at home) and found one of the dogs barking at a toad. She wasn't sure what to do about it. I relocated the toad.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I was watching James Martin cooking on TV with another bloke and Mavis suddenly jumped up barking like a nutter at them on TV.

She barks at dogs and animals on TV but that was the first time she has barked at people

 

[Cortez]

My two older dogs don't care about anything, but "teenager" 9 month old puppy has an absolute fit whenever she sees that dachshund advertising...whatever, on TV. Never minds any other animals or dogs, just that annoying dachsy.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Many years ago, walking my lab past an open gateway. She farted loudly, whipped around and looked behind her, growled into the open gateway and then tried to drag me down the lane at about 40 miles an hour. in fairness she did have an epic fart in her.

I was riding a horse when it farted, spooking itself. Usually the farts come out (from the exertion, I suppose) after the spook, the rider is unseated, and the horse decides to gallop around the arena farting, making a noise like a truck using its jake brakes.


My dog was not very reactive, but used to sing along to the Emmerdale Farm theme tune. He'd lift his face to the ceiling and HOWL.

 

[fiwen30]

When my boy was about 2 he saw a watermelon for the first time.

It was hanging out on the kitchen worktop, minding its own business. He came in, clocked it, and the hackles went up and he started growling at it! Backed away from it when it was picked up, and remained deeply suspicious when it was placed on the floor to be sniffed.

 

[Cortez]

I happen to have a decapitated head on the mantlepiece (doesn't everyone?) a very good, totally realistic prosthetic (it's Damian Lewis' as a matter of fact, from a movie we were working on). If I feel like a little amusement I take it down and show it to the dogs: they all freak out, raised hackles and real warning growls from everyone, no matter how many times they've seen it

 

[CrunchieBoi]

We used to have a dog that was terrified of people if they got the hiccups. Daughter was in the garden one day and wondered why the old girl flew out the door and dived into a hedge and it was because I'd suddenly had an attack of the hiccups while she was in the room.

The current middle dog started barking at a snowman when the offspring was walking him one day. She decided it would be a good teachable moment so walked him up to let him sniff it, but he must have nudged it slightly and the head fell off. He managed to salmon his way out his harness and ran up to a poor woman walking her own dogs and tried to go home with her.

 

[Poingsettia]

Fluffy fat boy Frankie barked at the airplane overhead the first time he saw one.

 

[Cortez]

Sammi barks at bees.....

 

[FFAQ]

My lurcher x is scared of lambs. And cows. And bangs. Bit of a bugger when they horse's fields back on to a paintball activity centre and there are lambs in the fields on the other side

 

[Chucho]

Her own reflection in the window at night.

Workmen wearing head to toe hiviz... while dressed in a full coverage hiviz jacket and harness himself! There was definitely something about the way he saw reflective colours/tape/paint that he found upsetting, bless him.

Oh, and goat horns. Absolutely terrifying apparently, not to be trusted at all. I think it must be the smell.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Ugh, don't.

My BC x GSD is sensitive to noises.

She hates the noise of my bedside table draw opening. If she hears that, she will take herself downstairs. No idea why it started. Nothing sinister has ever happened and nothing lives in that draw that should concern her.

She also can be a bit silly about a whistle that one of the ladies uses with her dog in our agility class. Just the first time it gets blown, she will worry and put herself under my legs. She gets over it once she adapts to it being in use though.

She doesn't much like me cooking either. Will take herself upstairs if I am cooking.

Zak developed a fear of frying, he’d slink out of the room, then come back because the wind was making a funny noise in the chimney. Funny little lad.

I received an alert (barking), so I looked around the corner (outside, at home) and found one of the dogs barking at a toad. She wasn't sure what to do about it. I relocated the toad.

This was Brig and tortoises, went mad barking when he first saw it, then jumped a 6ft fence and was waving it round. I had to sneak in and right it when he left it upside down

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

A ghost in a corner of our living room ceiling. No idea what she's looking at but she'll toodle in the room, look out the front window, inspect the ghost spot and then wander back out. I set up her crate in the living room in prep for fireworks season and she does now come and spend time in the living room with us in the evenings which is nice as she seems to feel safe in there with a blanket over the crate, presumably to protect her from ceiling ghost.

Hot air balloons. She is probably more worried about these than she is fireworks, even if she has spotted them out of the window at home. We spent our last two secure field bookings wedged into some long grass in a corner because a single hot air balloon had the audacity to be vaguely nearby.