[Magnus]

Originally Posted by yavenay

Yup I know exactly how you feel. I am an horror buff too and I like to watch them in a dark house by myself.....my friends don't understand it. Anyway, Duchess will alert me if there is something in the room that I dont see

I'm actually pretty serious.....when I had to put my cat to sleep. Duchess and I were laying in bed watching TV. All of sudden, Duchess jumps up and starts barking like crazy....she is looking in the chair where my cat used to sleep. She would not take her eyes off of that charir. She was so scared, she ran into the hall outside of my bedroom door while continuing to bark, she would not come back into the room. She was literally scared. It took quite a few minutes for her to calm down in come back into the bedroom and even then she stared at the chair for several minutes before finally falling back to sleep.

Interestingly, this happen on the same night I had my cat put to sleep. Although I was not scared, a part of me knew it was my cat because they weren't the best of friends. My cat would torment Duchess every now and then. I am pretty sure she was only really saying goodbye and Duchess didn't understand it. At any rate, Zoey must of finally crossed the rainbow bridge because it only happened that one time......queue the twightlight zone music.

So yeah, Duchess is my alarm system and I feel she definitely protects me in her own way.

Or maybe! She wanted to both say goodbye AND have one last good laugh at the expense of Duchess before she left.