Duchess scared the bejesus out of me last night So about 4:00 am i woke up because I keep because Duchess was pacing back and forth frantically. She would jump up on the bed, they jump off and hide under it. When I got up to see what was wrong she was trembling. I immediately thought she was in pain. I got up to walk around the house to see if she vomited or had diarrhea but I didn't see anything. The entire time I was searching the house, she stuck to me like glue. At this point I am really worried but than I noticed when I picked her up, she would stop trembling and calm down but as soon as I put her down, she started trembling again. So just as I was about to call the emergency vet, I noticed the smoke detector low battery warning beep and when it did that, Duchess almost jumped out of her skin. Than it did it again and now she started really shaking. She would only stop shaking when I held her. So I changed the battery in the smoke detector and after several minutes, she was able to relax. I don't know how long she was terrified as apparently the the low battery chime started while I was asleep. It was the one in my bedroom and has a high pitched sound. She's heard this before so I"m not sure why this time it seemed to scare her. This is definitely a first. I have never seen this alpha female terrified of anything. She would fight a 125lb Rottweiler if I let her. She slept up under me the rest of the night. She's okay but that was a little weird to see her that frightened. Something I will have to keep an eye on. |
The high frequency sound, if it was loud enough, could have been painful to her ears. Poor Duchess. I’m glad you figured it out before you had to make a middle-of-the-night trip to the emergency vet. Especially since the emergency vet probably would have cost you an arm and a leg, and they wouldn’t have found anything wrong. As soon as you got away from the house and the painful noise, she probably would have been fine. |
Cody has gone through the very same thing, If we have a power surge, the beeper gives just one beep. Cody has the same symptoms, he becomes a velcro dog and shaking. I don't usually coddle my dogs, I don't want to reinforce what scared them they should fear, so I always in a gentle voice tell them it's ok as he is glued to me. But this shaking is so pathetic since 2019 fire works, any sudden unusual chirps or thunder sets him shaking, So I have started to coddle him, thing is, he doesn't want to be coddled lol. just wants to be glued to me. I laugh at him saying, you want to take on all bigger dogs but you're a lil scaredy cat at noises lol. I don't like when he gets scared like that, but love the idea that he comes to mamma for protection, I love the trust he has in me that I will not let any harm come to him. |
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My cat just had a tumor removed from her ear to the tune of 1200.00 back in August. I have insurance for Duchess but not for Chloe so I had to pay out of pocket for her vet emergency which I still owe 500.00. |
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Penny is the head boss in our house that generally nothing scares her. She will knock down a dog gate and step over it. But the beep of the smoke detector scares her too. Like really bad. She just shuts down completely. I’m not sure if it scares her because the noise hurts or what. There is an episode of Modern Family where they can’t figure out which smoke detector is beeping and we can’t even watch that episode or she get scared. I’m glad that’s what it was though and not a health thing. I had never had a dog or heard of a dog scared of them before Penny. At least now I know Penny isn’t the only one scared of them. |
Jackson has a complete panic attack meltdown over the smoke alarm beeping for low battery. I felt terrible because one night I didn't even hear it and I woke up to pee and Jax was in my bathroom in the corner under the toilet just shaking soooo bad. I went and took the batteries out and shut it off for the night, but omg, it's horrible when they get like that. I felt awful. |
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Tibbe HATED those things. He couldn't find anyplace to hide from it so I'd let him outside after I took it down, got batteries and changed it outside. Course middle of the night I'm probably not going to sit on my back porch to do it! Why do those things always pick the wee hours to decide to warn us of low battery? |
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