Silliest thing that has made your dog react?

[millikins]

Rottie X many years ago had a really bad fright from a hot air balloon which was clearly having problems and far too low, dog bolted which was fair enough but for ever after she was not only scared of balloons at whatever height but anything round above her head. This included the ceiling rose in my parents' house and the full moon.

 

[paisley]

If you do a fake evil ‘mwahahah’ laugh in his direction. That gets a tail tuck, ears pinned and scuttle out the room. I actually can’t bring myself to do it, he hates it so much. Literally no clue as to where that started.

 

[scats]

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

I need to see a picture of this!

 

[ownedbyaconnie]

Oh Mabel wins this one…the beep at the end of a round on Mastermind.

 

[scats]

Growing up, my friends Alsatian was scared of the hoover. Even the word ‘hoover’ terrified him.
There was an advert in the 90s that had Richard O’Brien in a Hula Hoop (honestly I’m not going mad) and it had the words “the hula the hula”.
We used to sing along to it and can only assume it sounded so like “the hoover the hoover” that it scared the dog.
The dog then, through association, became terrified of they advert of Richard O’brien going round in a hula hoop and would leg it and hide under the table the moment he appeared on screen

 

[Cortez]

I need to see a picture of this!

As you asked.......


His nose has got a bit worn, but here's Damian.....

 

[scats]

As you asked.......

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His nose has got a bit worn, but here's Damian.....

That is the single best thing that anyone has ever had on their mantelpiece

 

[JoannaC]

I was a ghost in a pantomine, I waked into the front room where our lurcher was alseep on the sofa and she took one look at me and went ballistic. Took me ages to convince her it was me, I really thought she might bite me.

 

[Unicorn]

Mine has got a bee in her bonnet about the beep the delivery drivers gadget makes when they scan a parcel. Doesn't matter if we're out and it's nowhere near her house, she'll still give it a telling off.

Walking locally in the run up to Christmas is such fun

 

[oldandgold]

As you asked.......

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His nose has got a bit worn, but here's Damian.....

I agree with your dogs on this one

 

[skinnydipper]

Over the last couple of weeks we have had scaffolding put up and taken down, noisy in itself and done by very shouty workers and lots of noise from the workmen doing the actual work on the house that the scaffolding was erected for. No problem Even when they were working outside the window of the room we were in she would look at them, look at me, I would tell her it was okay and she would settle down again.

However, tonight there has been an owl out the back and she was on full alert. " What is that noise, we have an intruder, I must go out and check the garden is secure" She has lived here 4 years now and suddenly owls are a problem

 

[Fleece Navidad]

A shadow on the wall cast by a clothes peg on the washing line.

A line of line across the shed cast by next door's outside light.

 

[Blanche]

I have told the story before so won’t bore you again but for my six it was a wheelbarrow left in the wrong place one night.

 

[Morwenna]

The FaceTime ring tone, me sneezing, her water bowl left in a different place on the kitchen floor.

 

[islander]

A marrow left on the kitchen work surface.

 

[Jinx94]

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

Yeah.. I may have set the smoke detector off a couple times while making toast... if I'm cooking, Z hides

The really funny one was a pheasant feeder in one corner of the track around the paddocks. Hackles all the way up plus growling/barking/darting around from a good 20m+ away!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Walking by the river one time, Brig went round a bend out of sight. Cue desperate barking, properly hysterical. We came round the bend to find him going mad at a branch sticking up out of the water. He never barked, usually ran down the centre of the river and had clearly freaked himself out.

 

[Love]

Purdey has seen (and is not bothered by in any way) many wheelbarrows when she comes to the yard with me and even walks very politely on the lead next to mine when I'm pushing it down to the field. Our landlord who lives next to us (we are the gatehouse) is having some underground cables put in and some of our garden needed to be dug up for this. The workmen subsequently left their wheelbarrow in our garden yesterday evening. Cue some very funny under the breath "woofs" which later turned into full on barks and the zoomies around said wheelbarrow - apparently they are NOT ok in her garden

 

[poiuytrewq]

Cecil will growl and run at the TV if a black dog is on the screen, he gets to it and turns round “ah excuse me, I forget it’s just the TV” but does it every time!

Yesterday all fast asleep, Spud farted and they all lept up barking and growling at the sudden noise- including him

 

[Bellaboo18]

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[ArklePig]

The marrow comment reminded me of last halloween. We thought Fodhla was afraid of the pumpkin but it turned out her half a spaniel brain just thought everything round is a ball and she was begging us rather loudly to play with it.
Thankfully we're over that and we no longer have to hide onions, oranges, etc.

She once nearly lost her life when my neighbour was working on his car and he slid out from under it. Luckily I had a ball on a rope in my pocket

 

[ponyparty]

Frank spooks at tree stumps and large stones at the end of peoples drives, in a most horse-like way. I used to say that he and my old horse were like 2 peas in a pod. I’d forgotten he does this until we were on a walk on Sunday and he gave a suspicious looking stone a very wide berth, with eyes on stalks

 

[DabDab]

Dee is old and somewhat hard of hearing now so not bothered by much of this these days but in times gone by:

Tape measure extending or retracting
A wallet closing
Remote control pointed in her direction
Anything pointed at her and accompanied by a buzzing noise
Daffy duck noise
Someone saying the number "28"

Many others but probably more 'normal' dog reactions. She is a delightfully daft dog

 

[Poingsettia]

Latest one, OH lying on the couch under a blanket. Frankie comes back from the kitchen, stops dead at the lounge door, growling, mumbling. Eventually comes in, giving OH chair a wide berth and dagger eyes. It was his foot, poking out around the edge of the couch..

 

[Honey08]

I made a model of the queen, complete with corgi balloons that bobbled about in the breeze, for the jubilee at my coffee box. It’s was funny how many dogs barked at them!