Change Like the Weather
Feb. 1st, 2011 05:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzAnimals have a wonderful sensitivity to the weather. All the pets I had as a kid and as an adult would display some bizarre behavior when the weather was about to "change." They become more animated, they do things they normally don't do, etc.
A front was moving through here yesterday. While doing my after-work workout in my downstairs area, Murphy the cat decided to start playing wildly with a catnip toy. Catnip strangely has never had any effect on him, until yesterday. He was licking it like crazy, then ran all over the house, up and down the stairs. Maggie joined in, meowing for no reason, then doing laps herself throughout the house. When she finally calmed down, she wanted to snuggle in my arms. It's another thing she doesn't do often.
And pets aren't the only thing that react strangely when the weather is about to change. According to my grandmother who worked as a cook in my elementary school, kids do it as well. The elementary students at the school would get rowdy, restless, and rambunctious (or at least more than usual) when storms or snow fronts were coming.
A front was moving through here yesterday. While doing my after-work workout in my downstairs area, Murphy the cat decided to start playing wildly with a catnip toy. Catnip strangely has never had any effect on him, until yesterday. He was licking it like crazy, then ran all over the house, up and down the stairs. Maggie joined in, meowing for no reason, then doing laps herself throughout the house. When she finally calmed down, she wanted to snuggle in my arms. It's another thing she doesn't do often.And pets aren't the only thing that react strangely when the weather is about to change. According to my grandmother who worked as a cook in my elementary school, kids do it as well. The elementary students at the school would get rowdy, restless, and rambunctious (or at least more than usual) when storms or snow fronts were coming.
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Date: 2011-02-01 04:03 pm (UTC)Yukon, with his St Bernard genes is gearing up to go and dig up corpses if needed.
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Date: 2011-02-02 11:56 am (UTC)And Yukon is just following his rescue training!
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Date: 2011-02-02 02:05 am (UTC)HUGS!
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Date: 2011-02-02 02:33 am (UTC)And then we got snowmeggedon.
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Date: 2011-02-02 12:03 pm (UTC)And I love that icon! :)
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Date: 2011-02-02 12:38 pm (UTC)Seriously though...Delilah has bitten off Samson's whiskers since birth, which stops him from straying too far from her... She literally cuts off his hair to control him. Now THAT's a biblical thingymabob in real life! (ok in cat real life...) :O