16-02-2016, 11:57 PM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by spitfire
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No, after taking my dog for a walk, she is sort of unwilling to come back into the house, when she is in, she scratches the back door to go into the garden, and sits about 5 yards from the house looking back in.
Spitty, has she always done that or only recently?
She will know if you have a 'visitor' long before you do.
17-02-2016, 12:03 AM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by spitfire
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She is a rescue dog, and very brave in a shallow sort of way, but very timid also, she is very perceptive, you get a sense she is seeing something.
Yes, but how long has she been acting like this?
17-02-2016, 12:05 AM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by spitfire
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I have said before that during the Spring/Summer months when, I can complete some of my work on the patio, I spend a lot of time throwing a ball up the garden for the dog to retrieve, sometimes when coming back down the garden with her ball, she takes a wide detour round an invisible obstacle, in the middle of the lawn, this coupled with her avoidance antics, must mean something.
Chloe suddenly refused to walk between two boats which are stored in the field meaning we have to go through the mud instead, nothing would make her go there. I racked my brains and remembered an incident where she started limping on that spot (I posted about it at time) she had stepped on a nettle and it had stung the soft flesh between the pads. Your dog may have stepped on a stone/thorn something which caused pain
.If you put a tasty tipbit where the invisible obstacle is a few times she will learn to associate the spot with something pleasurable
17-02-2016, 12:14 AM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by mesco m
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There may be triggers that make her wary, other than a 'ghost dog' Being a rescue dog you don't know what lies in her background. My daughter has a rescue dog who had similar issues.
But Meg & Mesco, neither of your dogs 'wariness' explains why Spitty heard another dog himself, does it. (Assuming he was sober)
Spitty, if you don't flippin' well answer my question I shall have to slap you!
Has she been doing this since you first got her, or only recently??
17-02-2016, 12:14 AM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by mesco m
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There may be triggers that make her wary, other than a 'ghost dog' Being a rescue dog you don't know what lies in her background. My daughter has a rescue dog who had similar issues.
17-02-2016, 12:16 AM
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Re: Ghost Dog
Originally Posted by Mups
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But Meg & Mesco, neither of your dogs 'wariness' explains why Spitty heard another dog himself, does it. (Assuming he was sober) Spitty, if you don't flippin' well answer my question I shall have to slap you!
Has she been doing this since you first got her, or only recently??
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