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The next door neighbor has a high end yard service. They are here often, snow removal, leave blowing, mowing, none of which bothers her.
They were here yesterday and unexpectedly, Pensive is worried about something in that direction. She keeps glancing that way, shuffles her feet, raises and lowers her head. She has abandoned her favorite race course that runs partially along the common fence. Even inside my garage she glances in that direction and worries.
I walked over to the fence today and she kept flinging herself across my knees to block me, to stop me from walking over there.
I know they brought in a small tanker truck and I think they sprayed fertilizer on the lawn. Not pesticide because I can't smell anything and pesticides smell strong, I've never heard of a dog being spooked by fertilizer.
The neighbor has a 6 foot fence all around, so no need to put animal repellant on the lawn.
Maybe they fired up some sort of bug zapper for the season? And the hum bothers her? Anyone had a dog bothered by a bug zapper?
There is some sort of heavy construction going on past the neighbor's house, but she just sleeps through all the clanging and banging and booms of explosives. That doesn't bother her at all.
Check her physically to see if one of the workers threw something at her or hit her. Run your hand all over her body. If it were me,I would even consider a quick vet visit to check.
You need to go over there and check it out. See if they have something new. That zapper...I didn't know they were sold anymore. But the actual zap might startle Pensive. We used to have one many years ago before we realized it wasn't dissuading bugs but quick frying them.
Ask the owners and also call the company that worked there. Maybe someone brought a dog. Even if it was left in a vehicle barking.
And put Pensive somewhere she can't see when you go over there because she is showing great love stopping you and in her current condition it's best to thank her for her faithfulness and do as she says.
Is she so sensitive that someone yelling at her from the other side of the fence would upset her? Seems more than that though.
My neighbor's smoke alarm went off the other day (false alarm) for about an hour and it really spooked our dog. We suspect that there are even higher harmonics than we can hear as part of the alarm.
Could it be that your neighbor put in some of those "ultrasonic" rodent or bat control things that give off a signal above human (but not dog) hearing?
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No one has thrown anything at Pensive or spoken crossly to her. She is never out of my sight when she is outdoors.
The neighbor has never lived there. There has never been a dog there, so no reason for him to have an invisible fence. Not that I can figure out how that would bother Pensive.
I didn't even know there was such a thing as a supersonic bat repeller. I'll have to find out if the neighbor has one because if he does, I'll put up a bunch of bat houses and try to coax the displaced mosquito eaters to my yard.
I walked around my lawn today, trying to see into the neighbor's yard. Pensive followed me. I couldn't see much. I looked at Pensive and said "what?
There's nothing there". That's what I tell her when she barks and I can't see anything to bark at. At that point, she noticed a very attractive stick and grabbed that up to do the stick dance.
She's decided that whatever is over there isn't coming over here. But several times she has stopped playing to stand in the middle of the yard to listen in the direction of the neighbor's.
Made me think of that old Hitchcock movie "Rear Window."
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