I am not trying to be a "prognosticator," but something weird has been happening at my home the past couple of days.
I'm getting a much-deserved "quiet-time" right now as the rest of my family is off visiting or vacationing (I preferred staying home to TRY to pull my house into some order) but my dogs have been "scaring" me.
I've kept them on their normal routine (which, in these HOT summer days, consists of bringing them into the cool basement--even though they're outdoor dogs who normally prefer being outdoors--but I'm not going to let them do that in this oppressive heat during the days). I let them out again by sundown when it finally cools off, and feed them their dinner. But for the past two nights, after they eat their dinner, they go "weird" on me--- instead of doing what they "normally" do--which is lay down contentedly under some bushes in the yard or the yard swing, where they've dug some nice cool (huge) holes to lay in (that I'm going to have to fill in this fall)---they come onto the (hot) back porch, whining and crying DESPERATELY to be let in. Now they're not usually very keen on being in the house---(even though I let them in in the winter when it's very cold)--because the floors are so hard (even if they lay on their beds) and their old bones are like mine--arthritic--and they don't do to well lying on hard floors. So usually they don't want to spend more than a few moments indoors---but the past two nights they've acted like they're panicked about something---BOTH of them are whining, crying, and carrying on (even my GS Sweetie who is normally quite laid back)--and then even after I let them in they can't settle down, but keep panting and pacing and whining---and coming up to me & crying or jumping up on me---unable to settle down, VERY unusual.
NOT. LIKE. THEM.
I even told Lady (the Border Collie) last night---"Girl, you're scaring me. What is it you're afraid of? Is there an earthquake coming or something?"
She looked at me rather desperately as if she wished she COULD tell me what is wrong.
Tonight they seem a little calmer....
But could dogs in GEORGIA sense an oncoming earthquake in WYOMING?
curiouser and curiouser...
Anybody's else's pets acting weird? I've always heard they are more sensitive to oncoming earthquakes than humans are...???