Riverrat and Perry ~ Regarding Your Hounds

[Jen]

I have found that when we get close to a full moon, that Phoebe is up all night trudging thru the house, up and down the hallway, lays down can't get comfortable, up and down some more.

Do your Grey Hounds and Great Danes do the same thing?

[Perry]

Penny has always been a light sleeper, and is always the first into our bedroom and sticks her nose in our faces to say "good morning".
Copper gets up after we do and then goes straight into our bedroom and onto the bed for a after-waking-up nap.
They are creatures of routine and not much alters that, not even a full moon.

[Jen]

95% of the time Phoebe sleeps all thru the night soundly. Then when hubby gets up for work at 6, she will come and jump up on his side of the bed and curl up tight and sleep until I get up around 8. Like clock work. But there are these nights when she hears the call of the wild and is wide awake.

[LazyBkpr]

 But there are these nights when she hears the call of the wild and is wide awake.


   Annnnd, you never felt that way?   
     

[Jen]

  ME! ... I refuse to answer that question  on the grounds that it would blow my lady like decorum on this forum

However, if we were sitting around a camp fire, or at a tavern, or playing pool in the garage... well I can't attest to what I might say 

[Riverrat]

Theo can [predict the weather better than any weather man.  He gets restless when the weather is about to change within 24 hrs of the change.  Storms he hears the thunder before its cloudy.  Havent noticed the restlessness on full moons I will have to pay attention to the lunar charts to see

[Jen]

Hi Rrat, Phoebe isn't completely deaf as we were told. She is hard of hearing tho, more so than not. Smoke alarm doesn't phase her, but she can detect hubby's truck a couple of blocks away, and he has a very quiet truck.

[Perry]

My dogs only hear stuff if it suits them!
Me yelling their names, not always. A piece of kibble hitting their feed bowls from a 100 yards away, pretty much always.

[Jen]

I keep a bathroom size towel right next to Phoebe's bowl. As soon as I make her bowl of food the ocean of drool starts. I set her bowl down then do the drool waltz across the floor with the towel.

By the way, I came across a photo of my late mother and her dog Shane the Dane, this was about 25 years ago. He was also rescue, had been penned up in a chicken shed/pen before he was a year old, little boys poking sticks at him, his name then was Butterfly. Mom wrote voluntary articles for the newspaper for the local humane society. They new ahead of time that if a dane came in, to call her. Butterfly showed up one day, mom drove him home and promptly changed his name to Shane. The rest is a wonderful history for this beautiful dane. My mom cried like a baby when he died. One of the saddest days of my life. I then pledged that some day I would have a dane, have never regretted going to pick up Phoebe in a snow storm.

[Perry]

Great story! 

[Les]

I love rescue stories!

[Jen]

Just Like Clock Work! 5 days before a full moon. 11:00pm Phoebe still awake, Wide Awake! chewing ferociously on her shoes, pacing the house and back yard. She's been getting into trouble this evening like pushing her head into me and barking at me when I extend my leg out and keep her at a distance with my foot... Oooohhh! She does not think that is funny! But in reality I love it when she barks

[Perry]

Heard Copper yelp a couple days ago, and discovered that she had half torn a dew claw off! When I went to check it out there was the inevitable scream of death. These greyhounds scream "before" they even feel any pain!!!
 $45 bucks at the vet and they cut it off.

[Riverrat]

theo pacing the floor and being restless last couple days.  But we have had weather issues again

[Jen]

Rrat... Aren't danes part hound? I've looked up heritage of danes and read different opinions on what breeds they really are?

[Riverrat]

Rrat... Aren't danes part hound? I've looked up heritage of danes and read different opinions on what breeds they really are?

The breed originated with Irish wolfhounds and greyhounds.  Bred to hunt wild hogs back in the old land.  But are referred to as the German mastiff so somewhere some mastiffs was introduced when developing the breed

[Bakersdozen]

If it's not a full moon tonight, it will be tomorrow.  Perhaps Luna would have been an appropriate name.

[riverbee]

"Perhaps Luna would have been an appropriate name."

..........
that's too funny!  critters i think are more attuned to weather/lunar whatever cycles than we are and know when they are coming long before we pay attention!

in may of 1999 i think about memorial weekend or a week before? we had two cats and we were watching a movie or something on the big screen in the lower level of the house. the cats both became all wigged out; pacing back and forth and trying to get our attention and then ran for cover. these cats weren't much afraid of storms. there was no warning. about 10 to 15 minutes later 100 mph straight line winds hit. when the cats disappeared for cover, the skies were pretty dark, and the wind was incredible. we both ran upstairs to close windows, etc........grab emergency stuff and take cover in the basement. had to find the cats.....both buried under beds in different rooms and weren't coming out.....
while closing the last window in the rear of the house, there was rain straight-lining through so hard the kitchen floor was wet. the wind speed was so incredible and literally blew me off my feet.
we lost 6 mature oak trees, 1 black cherry tree, and a beautiful basswood. our roof sorta blew off..........well that's what you have insurance for..... and we didn't have electric for about a week.  the critters knew that storm was coming......

[Jen]

That's what I thought! Phoebe and I take walks a lot, and she has her nose down to the ground 24/7.. unless we walk right down the middle of the road. She's very hound