Posted by lonelygirl on May 10, 2004, at 18:59:39
In reply to Re: insanity all over a dog, posted by spoc on May 10, 2004, at 11:49:53
So true about dogs being sensitive to people’s moods! My dog can always sense when someone is sad or mad or sick, sometimes before the other people can. I often take him in my room with me. When I lose something, if it’s not in the first few places I look, sometimes I get really panicked about it. If my dog is with me and I’m looking for it, I swear, he can tell the instant I start to panic about it (it terrifies him, the poor thing; he goes and hides behind the bed shivering, and then I have to coax him back up on the bed and reassure him that lonelygirl’s not mad at the doggie). If I’m sad, he’ll come over and sit with me and get this concerned look on his little face.
The really funny thing is that he doesn’t usually get scared when we yell at him, but he does when we argue with each other. If he’s doing something bad, we can yell, “Stop it! BAD DOG!” and he will usually just totally ignore us! But if an argument starts between people, he runs and hides under a table, shivering.
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