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Strange dog behavior.

CutiegirlracingCutiegirlracing Member Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
I was walking my dog, he's a yorkie and cute as hell. I decided to walk into a cemetery, he wouldn't walk in there with me. He stopped at the edge, I had to pull the leash and even then he walked slow and behind me, he's usually in the front leading me.
He tried to keep his feet up as much as possible. Like he was walking on something hot.
When we walked out he was back to business as normal.
His behavior was creeping me out so we didn't stay long. Has anybody ever hear of this kind of behavior before?

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  • Colonel PlinkColonel Plink Member Posts: 16,460
    edited November -1
    Strange dog behavior.

    That's why I won't own a strange dog.
  • watrulookinatwatrulookinat Member Posts: 4,693
    edited November -1
    The smell? Maybe he should be a cadaver dog.
  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink
    Strange dog behavior.

    That's why I won't own a strange dog.



    [:D][:D][:D][:D]
  • CutiegirlracingCutiegirlracing Member Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by watrulookinat
    The smell? Maybe he should be a cadaver dog.


    That makes sense(get it?). He has one heck of a nose on him. We had hunting beagles when I was a kid and his nose would put theirs to shame. He's actually a yorkie-poo. Did I mention he's cute as hell.
    It maybe the poodle in him then.
  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,104 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He can feel the spirits.
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,539 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe your dog sees dead people.
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:I decided to walk into a cemetery

    why?
  • LightningLightning Member Posts: 945 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Might want to contact the caretaker and inform him they need to start digging a little deeper.
  • CutiegirlracingCutiegirlracing Member Posts: 2,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    quote:I decided to walk into a cemetery

    why?


    I help cut the grass at this cemetery and was tolded there was a down tree. So I was checking it out.
    Plus on my walks I could end up anywhere. Before I could drive, I would go for walks and would end up in other towns and have to call my dad to come get me.
  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do they put insecticide or gopher poison on the grounds? Contrary to common belief, few spirits hang out in graveyards.[8)]
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Cutiegirlracing
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    quote:I decided to walk into a cemetery

    why?


    I help cut the grass at this cemetery and was tolded there was a down tree. So I was checking it out.
    Plus on my walks I could end up anywhere. Before I could drive, I would go for walks and would end up in other towns and have to call my dad to come get me.



    well maybe it's time to let the dog lead[:D]
  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try it again - if you hear any strange or creepy music - run like hell....
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,700 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Cats and dogs are more tuned in to the spirit world than humans are.
    They can see ghosts.
  • givettegivette Member Posts: 10,886
    edited November -1
    Animals (pets) can pick up the slightest nuance/variable in the happenstance of the human. Ol yucki-poo knows you real well, and senses a subtle change in you when you tread into the land of the dead.

    I'm not talking supernatural here, folks. You are telegraphing something quite subtle. However not subtle enough for the dog. Joe
  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    Sounds like your dog is pretty smart and just didn't want to step in the dog poo left from other people walking their dogs in the cemetary. Although, since he let you lead, you may have not been so lucky.
  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000
    edited November -1
    Most likely he didn't like a fertilizer they were using.
  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by givette
    Animals (pets) can pick up the slightest nuance/variable in the happenstance of the human. Ol yucki-poo knows you real well, and senses a subtle change in you when you tread into the land of the dead.

    I'm not talking supernatural here, folks. You are telegraphing something quite subtle. However not subtle enough for the dog. Joe




    I wondered that also.
  • Dakota308Dakota308 Member Posts: 4,162
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Cutiegirlracing
    quote:Originally posted by watrulookinat
    The smell? Maybe he should be a cadaver dog.


    That makes sense(get it?). He has one heck of a nose on him. We had hunting beagles when I was a kid and his nose would put theirs to shame. He's actually a yorkie-poo. Did I mention he's cute as hell.
    It maybe the poodle in him then.



    yes, yes you did[:D]
  • bgjohnbgjohn Member Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the dog says not to go in there, then, DON'T GO IN THERE!
    jm
  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,770 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What were you wearing? Maybe you made some old man set up in his grave and the dog took notice of it.[;)]
  • redfishbobredfishbob Member Posts: 1,434 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    yorkies must be some kind of bad *.my neighbor has one and my 80 lb. lab is scared to death of it.can't see one afraid of a few dead people.
  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Whazzamatter? Dog don't like bones?
  • mongrel1776mongrel1776 Member Posts: 894 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had the same thing happen with a dog of my in-laws, years back. He started toward a tilted headstone, one assumes to lift his leg and claim ownership, and stopped cold, staring and snarling at nothing we could see. We left and he kept looking back and growling under he was out of sight of that particular plot.

    Maybe a snake or a mouse or something else in the hollow under the up-tilted corner of the stone. Maybe, like someone else suggested, getting a whiff of very, very old death (the stone was old enough that weather had made it illegible). Maybe....

    Allowing myself to believe in the sort of "maybe" that strays into the realm of the supernatural and other what-ifs is one of the things that keeps life a little more interesting. To some extent I pity those who, through religion or rational thinking or whatever means, believe they have it all sorted out to the extent they can't even let their imaginations go out and play once in awhile. I like the slight rush of adrenalin and the hair standing up on the back of my neck, reminding me that, deep down inside, however much I or anyone else might claim otherwise, I neither know or will ever know, or understand, or control much of what I see (and don't see) in this world.
  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,245 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo

    Whazzamatter? Dog don't like bones?


    [:D][:D][:D]
  • sarge_3adsarge_3ad Member Posts: 8,387 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take him there again, but this time take a digital camera and voice recorder. See what you pick up.
  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dheffley
    Most likely he didn't like a fertilizer they were using.


    That's my guess. Fertilizer, insecticide, or herbicide, in that order.

    It was probably burning his feet.
  • sheepdipsheepdip Member Posts: 3,124
    edited November -1
    Fertilizer, insecticide, or herbicide
    However, checking graves at the family plot and vaults were only 3 feet down and you know some leak, so I wouldn't rule out the smell of death.
  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    HE was.....................................................................................TIRED.

    Those poor little dogs have to walk a million miles an hr to keep up. You'd be tired too. Thats why people carry them around.
  • huntergarrethuntergarret Member Posts: 702 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe he read the "No Dogs Allowed" sign. Have not been to too many cemeteries that don't have one.

    Sal
  • Pa.BillPa.Bill Member Posts: 321 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is an old cemetery along a dirt road beside us. When I take the dog for a walk (not in the cemetery but along the road)she will tuck her tail underneath and start wimpering until we get past. This is a dog that tangled with a black bear and didnt back down. Whatever she sees or senses there scares her.
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