You know how Spiderman has his spidey sense? Well, Molly has a cat sense. She can be soundly sleeping on the kitchen floor, which is in the back of the house, then three milliseconds later be at the front window barking at a C.A.T. In the process, she scares the wits out of me of course.
We can’t figure out how she does it. Does she hear their footsteps in the yard? Do they telepathically taunt her? She certainly can’t see them from wherever she’s sleeping. At first we thought that maybe she would dream that a cat was in the front yard and wake up to go bark at it, but we have confirmed that there is almost always a cat in the yard, in the street, or in the yard across the street when she does this. Does anyone else have a dog with a mysterious cat sense, or is it just my goofy girl?
Oh, and thanks so far to Carolyn and Cindy for supporting the Walk for the Animals! I may have to up my goal a bit here!
It’s probably the scent. Jake can smell a rabbit a mile away, I swear. From 3 days ago. It’s also a different bark than for something minor, like a squirrel (they’re only not allowed in “his” yard, but all rabbits must be banned from the scent radius). We won’t even discuss the skunk trails he can sniff out…
I don’t think anyone can explain how a dog “just knows” when certain things are about to happen or that someone or animal is there. Just like our old dogs did with my father, Dad says that he knows I will be pulling into the driveway in about 1-2 minutes because the dog gets up goes over to the door with the tail wagging and starts here hello cry. Sure enough, I come around the corner and pull into the drive way. It’s not by time, because I am never home the same time each day. Maybe it is all linked in with animal instincts, just like how they know when major things are about to hit like earthquakes – they just do.