Labrador retriever weird behaviour

JJJJNR

My 5 year old lab has been doing some weird stuff for the past few days , waking up running around the garden all stressed out barking at 4am as loud as possible and last night stuck her head in the bushes and was really barking as loud as possible as if there was something there but it was just the hedge there was nothing in the hedge like a rat etc.

I'm going to bring her to the vet in the morning, she gets loads of exercise each day and is super healthy. It's just very weird.

em_cat

JJJJNR wrote: »

My 5 year old lab has been doing some weird stuff for the past few days , waking up running around the garden all stressed out barking at 4am as loud as possible and last night stuck her head in the bushes and was really barking as loud as possible as if there was something there but it was just the hedge there was nothing in the hedge like a rat etc.

I'm going to bring her to the vet in the morning, she gets loads of exercise each day and is super healthy. It's just very weird.

Our yorkie x is driven by scent and he’s been off since the wind picked up recently, spends his time with his nose in the air, running about the place, sometimes very frantically...

He is a bit neurotic most days, but this is a whole new level...

dashoonage

hedgehogs....

em_cat

I’d be worried if one made it to our balcony:) But then again I’d be building hedgehog highways across the roof...

I’m guessing that Mr C is picking up the scent of all the seagulls, they dive bomb all around the apartments when rain is on the way.

mymo

I was thinking hedgehogs too, we have them around and dogs get excited, but I've nearly walked on them in the past, hard to see them sometimes, they blend in well in the dark or half dark.

JJJJNR

Slept like a baby last night and vet said to monitor.

em_cat

JJJJNR wrote: »

Slept like a baby last night and vet said to monitor.

Good to hear. Our lad sleeps in our bedroom as he has some health issues that we just wouldn’t hear if he slept elsewhere. He does sleep in his own bed though.

JJJJNR

Ok we have discovered the culprit, its a cat getting into one of houses behind our house, its seems to appear out of the blue but appeared last night and was hissing and screeching for hours and this is setting the dog off. There is an open field at the end of the row of houses so the cats at hanging around there.

Is there anyway to get the cats to go elsewhere, any sprays that will deter them from coming to this spot. A cat entered into our garden in the past and it didn't end well and I like cats but want to sort this soon.

aonb

Bring the dog inside to sleep at night.
The mating season for cats is pretty long - the racket cats make is going to make any dog insane, if there are cats hanging around, your dog will be constantly on high alert patrolling his property.
Bring him inside (which is where he should be anyway!) and leave a radio on low volume overnight if the mating calls are particularly bad...