Shades VS the fan

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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 1:21 pm

Since it has been getting warm lately, we started turning on an oscillating fan in the bedroom at night.
Every other night or so, Shades will wake up in the middle of the night and start barking at the fan. He sees it moving and it spooks him, I think. So I get up, turn on the light so he can see it and then we go back to bed. I would be ok with it if it happened once or twice, but it's getting kind of ridiculous. Why can't he remember that it is just the fan? He's fine when we go to bed. :|
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Postby Purple » June 18th, 2006, 8:06 pm

Hmmm, who's training who? LOL!!
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 8:09 pm

:oops: What am I supposed to do? Just let him bark?! lol
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Postby Purple » June 18th, 2006, 8:56 pm

LOL! I'm no help, my dogs want to lay in front of the fan. Of course, all of mine don't move! I can only imagine how much the fan's life span would be shortened by if it actually moved LOL!!!
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 9:31 pm

We're going to try putting it into a stationary position tonight. Then if he sees the shadow and it's not moving, maybe he won't startle? We'll see.
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Postby 04100824 » June 18th, 2006, 11:21 pm

Reno has been drinking a bunch of water as soon as we lay down to go to bed at night...

right when I get all comfy and don't wnat to get up to stop him.

He then wakes ME (not hubby) up at 1:30 am.

They're out to get us and rob us of sleep, I tell you. It's a plot, and they're all in on it. :twisted:
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 11:24 pm

Aww, mine were pretty good and let me sleep in an extra 45 minutes this morning! I'm always amazed when that happens. They're usually tickling my face with their whiskers saying "FOOD, FOOD, FOOD!"
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Postby Malli » June 18th, 2006, 11:28 pm

maybe its the fan randomly blowing stuff around (like curtains) as it moves back and forth?

:| I dunno, my dog has never had the "barking at something rediculous" issue.

funny, I was just talking about this at work last night with a co-worker about his Bullmastiff...

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Postby 04100824 » June 18th, 2006, 11:34 pm

At least he's barking AT something. Mine has barked at an empty corner more than once...

which is honestly kind of freaky. :o
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 11:35 pm

Malli wrote:maybe its the fan randomly blowing stuff around (like curtains) as it moves back and forth?


That was my initial thought, but he is actually staring at the fan and barking. :|
He does bark at random things and it drives me nuts sometimes. When we had a utility door installed in the side of our garage, Shades would freeze and bark at it everytime he went out into the yard. It took him about 5 days to realize that it was not threatening him, I guess. :hammer:
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 18th, 2006, 11:37 pm

04100824 wrote:At least he's barking AT something. Mine has barked at an empty corner more than once...

which is honestly kind of freaky. :o


lol Yeah, he does that too. He likes to look at the ceiling a lot, like he's watching something move. Sometimes he'll give low deep growls at the ceiling. Creeps me out.
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Postby Malli » June 18th, 2006, 11:44 pm

creepy!

maybe he is!
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Postby Marinepits » June 19th, 2006, 8:18 am

ParisStreetPitCrew wrote:
Malli wrote:maybe its the fan randomly blowing stuff around (like curtains) as it moves back and forth?


That was my initial thought, but he is actually staring at the fan and barking. :|
He does bark at random things and it drives me nuts sometimes. When we had a utility door installed in the side of our garage, Shades would freeze and bark at it everytime he went out into the yard. It took him about 5 days to realize that it was not threatening him, I guess. :hammer:


Sounds like Indy and Crash are going to have company on the short bus, LOL. :D
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Postby msvette2u » June 19th, 2006, 12:20 pm

You guys saw the pics I posted of Lambie chasing the ceiling fan, right??
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 19th, 2006, 1:21 pm

msvette2u wrote:You guys saw the pics I posted of Lambie chasing the ceiling fan, right??


***rushes off to look for Lambie pics***
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Postby msvette2u » June 19th, 2006, 1:28 pm

lol
so did you try a stationary fan to see if that helped?
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Postby Patch O' Pits » June 19th, 2006, 2:04 pm

LOL Silly dog

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Postby Purple » June 19th, 2006, 3:27 pm

I think the short bus neeeds an extension!
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Postby ParisStreetPitCrew » June 19th, 2006, 3:36 pm

msvette2u wrote:lol
so did you try a stationary fan to see if that helped?


I did try this last night and there was no barking. It's too soon to say if the problem is solved or not, though, because he'd do it every other night or every few nights. :elephant:

Either way, I was happy without him waking me up last night. :wink:
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