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Red, our Beagle/ Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, sits in the corner of our dining room and stares at the floor for hours. He'll growl, whimper, bark and claw at the same particular square until we think he'll go nuts or we will.
After months of obsessing, he has managed to scratch the surface off of that one floor tile. To stop any further damage, my husband removed the nearby drawers to see if there was a clue as to why Red does this. He removed the tile itself and also the skirting in front of the same spot outside. He says there is nothing there.
At this point, we'd ask Dr. Newcombe for a prescription for Prozac, except that long ago in the early 1990s, we had another Beagle mix who would bark continuously at the same spot. More than 10 other rescue dogs have passed through our house since then, without giving the corner of our dining room so much as a passing glance.
But none these dogs were hounds and I suspect the mystery lies in the fact that these two Beagles have supercanine olfactory powers.
If you have an idea as to why these dogs do this, please let us know; or, if you have any suggestions as to how to make it stop, we'll take that too. We really could use a good night's sleep or to watch an entire T.V. show without any distractions. We thought that with the kids finally grown and gone, we'd have peace of mind at last.
Red has become a second son to us but not, by any stretch of the imagination, in the way we had hoped.
Red, our Beagle/ Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, sits in the corner of our dining room and stares at the floor for hours. He'll growl, whimper, bark and claw at the same particular square until we think he'll go nuts or we will.
After months of obsessing, he has managed to scratch the surface off of that one floor tile. To stop any further damage, my husband removed the nearby drawers to see if there was a clue as to why Red does this. He removed the tile itself and also the skirting in front of the same spot outside. He says there is nothing there.
At this point, we'd ask Dr. Newcombe for a prescription for Prozac, except that long ago in the early 1990s, we had another Beagle mix who would bark continuously at the same spot. More than 10 other rescue dogs have passed through our house since then, without giving the corner of our dining room so much as a passing glance.
But none these dogs were hounds and I suspect the mystery lies in the fact that these two Beagles have supercanine olfactory powers.
If you have an idea as to why these dogs do this, please let us know; or, if you have any suggestions as to how to make it stop, we'll take that too. We really could use a good night's sleep or to watch an entire T.V. show without any distractions. We thought that with the kids finally grown and gone, we'd have peace of mind at last.
Red has become a second son to us but not, by any stretch of the imagination, in the way we had hoped.