Scariest thing your GSD have done

[Lilie]

Originally Posted by DensterNY

The scariest thing my first GSD Nancy used to do was stand at the top of the basement stairwell barking, snarling and growling into the dark empty basement like the devil himself was downstairs.

I would then close the door and tell Nancy, "Whatever it is that you sense or smell I cannot detect and I need to go the basement periodically so we'll ignore it okay. Thank you"

Ok - that would just freak me out totally. I've seen to many scary movies that begin like that!

[FuryanGoddess]

Oh, this happened about an hour ago.. she jumped the gate on the deck and ran up to the road... followed by my 4 year old. They were both up at the top of the driveway. My road is posted 25 but ppl fly on it. There was a child killed about 100ft down from where they were at.

I'm gonna have nightmares and I can't even think about it.. really.. I just keep thanking God that they're alright... I think I"m gonna lose some sleep, and perhaps some hair, tonight!

[Karin]

Originally Posted by FuryanGoddess

Oh, this happened about an hour ago.. she jumped the gate on the deck and ran up to the road... followed by my 4 year old. They were both up at the top of the driveway. My road is posted 25 but ppl fly on it. There was a child killed about 100ft down from where they were at.

I'm gonna have nightmares and I can't even think about it.. really.. I just keep thanking God that they're alright... I think I"m gonna lose some sleep, and perhaps some hair, tonight!

Wow! Thank goodness they're OK!

[FuryanGoddess]

I know, the second she saw me, she came running all happy and smiles.. and COVERED in MUD! I hosed her off and brought her inside.. can't really yell at her, she came when called.. she's just a baby..

Invisible fence is now on top priority list! I know it's not a 100% solution, but it helps greatly...

[abby]

One of the scariest things for me was i worked at an agricultural college in the uk running the stables. I had left kobe playing with his friend the lurcher and owner when one of the liveries came in saying that they didnt know kobe could round up sheep. The week previous one of the lecturers show dogs had killed one and in the uk the dog can be shot for harrassing sheep, or put down by court order. So you can imagine how panicky i felt but there he was sheep all in the corner standing guard. Still never let him get to the sheep again he was also kicked in the head by a horse who he was also trying to round up after it got away from the owner he didnt even break stride and was fine after being checked out. He has done lots of things to scare the **** out of me bless him. Now its over to the hound mix rescue we have whos goal is to gross us out if its dead or smells disgusting he rolls in it.

[trish07]

You guys have so great stories! Keep going on!!

[TxRider]

Originally Posted by Lilie

Ok - that would just freak me out totally. I've seen to many scary movies that begin like that!

My girl Hope did something like that.

We went out back late at night and she keyed off on something. To that point I had barely ever even heard her bark, she doesn't bark for knocks at the door, or the doorbell or much of anything normally. She is pretty fearless, overly friendly and not territorial and she went totally off like the devil himself was standing in that corner.

Teeth showing, fierce deep barking and snarling, pawing up the ground tossing hunks of turf 10 feet behind her... I walked over in the corner she was looking at and there was nothing there.

I looked back at her and she was there 6 feet away looking right through me still going off on whatever she thought she sensed, and it made my hair stand up and gave me goosebumps. I certainly would not want her looking at me for real and going off like that.

For a couple of weeks after every time I let her out back she would run out and growl and bark at that corner by the gate. It's the only time since I rescued her I have seen what her aggressive potential looks like.

[trish07]

That is too freak....

[abby]

they say animals sense stuff it would just freak me out too, i was dogsitting for a friend of mine she was spaniel and i lived in a very old 19th century house and we had gone to bed when she fixated on a corner in the room barking growling etc. Tried switching on the light no effect so bottled out and slept on the couch lol my gsd was oblivious but freaked me out!!

[Liesje]

One night I came home and immediately saw several spots of vomit on the white carpet. Kenya came running over and seemed OK, but then I found a chewed prescription bottle. My DH is on anti-seizure medication. He is tall and athletic, over 200lbs and I think he takes 200mg but this dose he had to work up to slowly, b/c this drug can cause a fatal skin rash. Kenya on the other hand is 50lbs and there were half a dozen pills left, all demolished. She had vomited about 7 times. I called the vet and threw her in the van. They really did not know what to do, since even in humans this is not a common medication. The vets had nothing to based in on for dogs. He did a basic exam and their best answer was for me to watch her closely for 24 hours. The drug is metabolized quickly, so hopefully she had started vomiting immediately. At that point there was nothing they could do and no reason to induce more vomiting. I asked about her liver and whether we needed to check it, and the vet said he didn't want to because he would expect it to be totally out of whack and didn't want to scare me. Since the liver regenerates, as long as the dog seemed OK after 24 hours, I shouldn't worry.

I had panicked at home but the vet was very honest and reassuring. He told me that if she had chewed a bottle of Tylenol she might be dead already. He offered to keep her at the hospital but they had no night staff so I opted to take her home and watch her. The next day I snuck her into my work and made a dog bed under my desk.

This happened around Thanksgiving and there seems to have been no effect, other than me crating her again. She always was perfect in the house but had been looking for plastic containers to chew. To get DH's meds she had to get them out of his toiletry case (he has an extra set of everything that he takes to work when he works out). Now she is crated.