Bwah! Clearly they were giving you early warning of the lack of need to be concerned.
I'd lay higher odds on their caring about the sky tumbling down too, but of course that changes the air enough that we can tell if we're paying attention. (And/or have Amazing Barometric Sinuses.)
Although, when I was a teenager in eastern Colorado (Motto: "Where it's not summer yet until you've seen at least one funnel cloud"), neither dog nor cat was any use for that either. Colleen had long since progressed (in true neurotic Irish Setter fashion) from "scared of thunder" to "cowers and shakes in the bathtub when there are clouds," and Spookie... had a nice nap. Briefly interrupted by objecting to being moved to the basement.
Heck, *I* freaked out about the only one which came close enough to knock over trees in my immediate neighborhood. ("The huge oaks on either side of the park entrance are NOT supposed to bend over to form an arch!") But the Dog Slept On.
There's something about Setters. (Ours is English, but is frightened of many random things. Thunder is not one of them. But shaking out a new garbage bag? Terrifying.)
My dogs both looked vaguely alert but not at all bothered by the earthquake.
My English Setter is named Thunder... perhaps that was a wise choice and kept him from being afraid of it?
I haven't actually found anything that he's afraid of, other than today when the vacuum cleaner wand (big commercial cleaner sucking up water from my basement carpet) decided to attack him for no reason. He's eyed it suspiciously ever since it fell on him.
Setters are... yeah. Colleen wasn't as bad as her sister, who belonged to some family friends, and who spent basically the entire last five years of her life with her head under her humans' bed.
She did, however, beat the last two inches of her tail to death by the time she was a year old. Literally. It was scaly and had no fur on it for the rest of her life.
She actually came from a highly respected kennel when we were stationed in England, and my parents bred her there once before having her spayed. One of her pups grew up to be a Crufts champion. No idea how that happened.
*nods* Ours has no bottom canines, due to a sincere belief that he could use them as canopeners to pop open the door of his crate. Doesn't like the crate.
Ours came from a well-respected family who breed them as working gundogs. Apparently there's a lot of range of ability.
I'd lay higher odds on their caring about the sky tumbling down too, but of course that changes the air enough that we can tell if we're paying attention. (And/or have Amazing Barometric Sinuses.)
Although, when I was a teenager in eastern Colorado (Motto: "Where it's not summer yet until you've seen at least one funnel cloud"), neither dog nor cat was any use for that either. Colleen had long since progressed (in true neurotic Irish Setter fashion) from "scared of thunder" to "cowers and shakes in the bathtub when there are clouds," and Spookie... had a nice nap. Briefly interrupted by objecting to being moved to the basement.
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My dogs both looked vaguely alert but not at all bothered by the earthquake.
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I haven't actually found anything that he's afraid of, other than today when the vacuum cleaner wand (big commercial cleaner sucking up water from my basement carpet) decided to attack him for no reason. He's eyed it suspiciously ever since it fell on him.
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Setters are... yeah. Colleen wasn't as bad as her sister, who belonged to some family friends, and who spent basically the entire last five years of her life with her head under her humans' bed.
She did, however, beat the last two inches of her tail to death by the time she was a year old. Literally. It was scaly and had no fur on it for the rest of her life.
She actually came from a highly respected kennel when we were stationed in England, and my parents bred her there once before having her spayed. One of her pups grew up to be a Crufts champion. No idea how that happened.
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Ours came from a well-respected family who breed them as working gundogs. Apparently there's a lot of range of ability.
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I shall give them the benefit of that doubt. *g*
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