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Title: Weather Related Question
Post by: RollinEK on May 18, 2010, 04:23:55 PM

I'm wondering if anybody has noticed if their chin is weather savvy? I live in OKlahoma and storms come and go almost daily. When it is going to storm, about 12 hours before, she starts being kinda skittichs and not really moving about much. This isn't just a random event either, she has been on the money everytime.

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: jmdebb on May 18, 2010, 11:14:45 PM

hi..
ya know, i have to admit, i'm not qualified to answer this one but i'm gonna add my 2cents anyways cuz i'm a gabber.. hehe

i bet he does know the storm is coming.. i mean dogs sense alot of things we can't.. why can't chins too right..... 

thats a darn good question tho.. never thought of it.

jean

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: Courtney on May 19, 2010, 03:30:34 AM

Yes, I believe they do know. One of my chins Silly starts to shiver. I just hold him. I put a blanket over the chin room window. But every time he does this, poor guy.

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: Blondy40 on May 19, 2010, 08:41:53 AM

AWWWWWWW...they are so cute. I haven't noticed any changes in mine per say....but we have had some really wicked thunderstorms here in Central New York over the passed couple of months and they do not really seem affected and I have to admit I was surprised. When I go in their room to check on them...they are just huddled together...nothing different there....and looking at me as if to say...WTH is going on???  :2funny:   thank goodness...no crying or anything...they are all so different and have such diverse personalities!

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: Missy_deleon on May 19, 2010, 10:01:02 AM

I live in Dallas and my girls always act strange before a storm, they are my little weather bug.  Trixie is more in tune with it I think, she gets real fussy and jumpy the morning of a storm, while the storm is happening they are very calm, I always wondered what they are thinking.

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: jmdebb on May 19, 2010, 11:37:00 AM

i should of added:

i have 4 at the moment and none of mine act different either...

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: RollinEK on May 19, 2010, 03:55:43 PM

hmmm. i wonder if has to do with the region they are born in. If its given to them as an instinct here in the midwest.

Title: Re: Weather Related Question
Post by: Debbie.nl.ca on May 21, 2010, 09:00:57 AM

I find that just before and during a storm my chins seem to huddle more and kind of calmer.
It seems to be the high winds the notice more here.
On a nice evening they are deffinently more worked up.