Quote: Michael_Wise

Do I smell a new sub-forum?

Yes!

( i hope )

I just got done watching a vid of a fox nailing a mouse under three or four feet of snow locating it only by sound and then smell, seen wolves and coyotes do the same so I would imagine the dog is a little spooked by hearing something he normaly doesn't hear in the wee hours of the morning

I'd be looking into the exterminator as well.
Followed by a serious evaluation of whether the dog has become light reactive.

Has someone been playing with a laser pointer with this dog?

Have health problems been ruled out? I ask because I had a dog a long time ago that would occasionally go up to an empty chair or look into an empty hallway and start wagging his tail as if greeting someone who wasn't there. However, this dog had epilepsy and these "hallucinations" seemed to happen right after a seizure.

I had another dog who used to go from room to room, barking at the heating/AC ducts. Turned out we had mice. A little D-Con, placed where the dog couldn't get to it, solved the problem.

I'm also wondering how long they've had this dog, and has it always done things like this, or is this new behavior? Also, how long have they been in this house? Is this a case where they have recently moved and the dog is hearing unfamiliar sounds?

I agree with everyone who suggests looking into an exterminator as the first course of action.

Even so, though I'm not entirely convinced that demons abound, I do believe in paranormal activity and that dogs react to it.

At the risk of sounding like a complete kook, I have first hand experience. My sister, my daughter, a friend and I, and our three dogs, all lived together for six months in a house that was haunted. I always took alleged hauntings with a grain of salt until this house, and I can easily say it was the most horrid, most exhausting and most terrifying six months of my life.

We had planned on eventually buying it when we first moved in because it was beautiful, but after six months even the landlord's begging and offers of free rent weren't enough to keep us there.

Our previously well-balanced and calm dogs were always on edge, and always barking at empty spaces in a frantic sort of way. It was just awful. I'm currently writing a book about the experience for fun and profit, and I would be lying if I said I wasn't trying to "work it out" a bit too.

So while I would tend to look at more Earthly reasons in-depth first (we did), I am loath to rule anything out.

Oh man Kristel! Now of course we are going to want to know more -I guess we have to wait for your book! And I just got back to sleep after reading that latest D. Koontz book!!

I've seen Bigfoot. Twice. Sorta.

Besides the point.

I'm just teasing because every logical cause was left out of here and went straight to demon possession. I've seen dogs react the same way after being startled out of a sleep by their own fart.

I'll butt out now so I don't hurt anyone's feelings. I've been a good boy lately, and should have bit my keyboard on this one, too.

"I've seen Bigfoot. Twice. Sorta."

HA, gotcha beat, I dated his sister, Betty the Yeti, that was a night i can tell ya

"call the exterminator before the priest"
that's a riot!!!

 Quote: Dennis Jones

Ya got critters in the walls

Yup. I'm pretty open-minded, but I would take a hint from Sherlock Holmes and eliminate everything else (prove everything else to be impossible), THEN whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

That is, FIRST you eliminate the obvious commonplace stuff before you accept that an improbable solution has to be true because it's all that's left.



I'd start with mice, not demons.