blacklight wrote:
> One evening a thunderstorm kept hovering above us. We live on a ridge
> surrounded by valleys. They add to each thunderclap a chain of echoes
> which try to give dog Rusty a heart attack. He hopped on my bed that
> evening shaking all over. I held him tight to keep his bones
> together.
> Each thunder made him wince, then howl because the end was nigh.
> A lightning was indicated by a short dip in the light of my reading
> lamp - followed within seconds by thunder. Very quickly, Rusty had
> figured out the connection between the dimming of the light and the
> awfulness that followed. And he changed his habit. He now howled and
> shook when the light went down, and became fatalistic about the
> thunder.
> I am utterly amazed that a dog in less than half an hour could
> understand the logic of cause and effect.
> Greetings - Klaus and Rusty
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Did you know that to dogs and wolves that thunderstorm sounds like
the sky is growling?
Thunderstorms are full of constant staccato subsonic booms and growls
that sound like a giant dog is walking in the sky with a regular pace,
and is paced by the others in the pack in the sky?
On occasion, they can also also hear supersonic whistles which seem to
come from higher in the clouds, or maybe farther back.
It must sound like you are being hunted by a pack of dogs and their
men. Of course it terrifies them; if you aren't part of the hunting
pack, then you might just be it's quarry.
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