Odd animal behaivor...., page 2
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reply posted on 12-8-2009 @ 01:52 AM by Magnivea
reply to post by TheRedneck



I have an American Bulldog that does the same thing. He is still technically a puppy, about a year and a half old, but he's a BIG boy (about 125 pounds) and I think he was being raised to fight also. When we got him about 6 months ago, he was terrified of everything. Scrawny and in generally crappy health, even after being with the humane society for over a month.

Within a week or so, he was mostly as normal as any other dog, but when he was left alone for any length of time outside, he would get frantic and try to get inside again.

Tuffy is not scared of people in the slightest. He's made more than one person defecate in their undies by running at them full speed like he's going to attack, then stopping last second, sitting down and begging for pets. He also will not growl but visibly tense up if he feels me or any member of my family is threateded by someone he does not know.

He is, however, terrified of stupid little things. Once he was out in the yard and a squirrel fell out of a tree. It fell about 15 feet and made a hollow thud. Instead of running for it like a normal dog he made that wide eyed "HOLY CRAP" face that I'm sure you and any other bulldog or pitbull owners here are familiar with. He turned around and ran faster than I had ever seen him move into the back door, through the kitchen, over the gate (There is a 3.5' tall gate seperating the living room and dining room to keep the dogs out of the room during dinner or in the kitchen at night), through the living room, over the gate at the bottom of the stairs and disappeared. I found him 15 minutes or so later under my daughter's bed at the far end of the upstairs.

Another time was almost the same reaction, but instead of a falling squirrel it was what I think was a dead branch that had fallen off the tree and landed in some lower branches where it was swinging back and forth in an admittedly strange way.

He's also afraid to be alone in the dark, afraid to go into the garage and won't cross a street unless I carry him.

So anyway, maybe it's small things that a person would never make a connection between that trigger the strange reactions. Or maybe bulldogs are weird. Or aliens.


reply posted on 12-8-2009 @ 08:40 AM by TheRedneck
reply to post by Magnivea

You know, reading your reply I couldn't help but think of our indoor dog, a little Shiatsu(sp?) that is terrified of butterflies. Especially the little blue ones!

Anyway, thanks for the reply! I feel a little less concerned knowing that someone else is having this happen. I still think it's strange, and I wish I could figure out what it is that is terrifying the poor pooch. I really don't want him inside, since he's big enough to do some damage to the house furnishings without realizing it. And it's just too hot in the South to sit around with the door closed.

Have you ever kept your bulldog inside? One of the things I thought was weird was that Ox has never been inside our house (or any other house) before... at least since we had him.

TheRedneck



reply posted on 13-8-2009 @ 05:53 AM by Magnivea
reply to post by TheRedneck



Yeah, he's lived inside since we got him. If we leave him outside he uses his as a battering ram on the back door. I think he was left outside while they were trying to train him and because of that he had a skin condition on his lower back that has since cleared up. I only say I think he was left out because I had a Staffordshire that had the same problem after being left chained to a picnic table in someone's yard for 6 months before I got him.

Oh and I forgot to mention he's also afraid of cats and the basement.
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