Just had horrible intruder scare.

[maplesky7]

Of course it was the dog! But you had me going there for a minute...whew. dumb dog. cute but a dingy. Figures she chewing on the curtains now...

A scary funny that happened to me is my hubby was out of town and I had one child at the time and I rented a scary movie and watched it while she was napping and then had to return it before 8pm---this was fall so it was dusk. When I returned home--in the country--I heard this blood curdling call, yell, cry??? I stood there frozen in my tracks listening very carefully...what was it? Where was it coming from? Do I have to run in and call the police? Was a farmer hurt? Or was so maniac on the loose tormenting a neighbor?...

I finally realized it was goats that live up on the hill. I called the farm on the hill across the way and asked her if she heard that noise and she LAUGHED at me and said they do that when ever their owners come out because they want to get fed...so we shared a good laugh.

Well, my husband returned and north of us a teenage boy comes rushing over one night pounding on our door with a flashlight and yells, "Someone's in trouble!" Me and my husband rushed out and listened for what he was hearing. I heard that same curdeling cry and I said, "Justin, it's just the goats on top of the hill." And he was saying, "Are you sure? No, that's a person yelling for help!" And he starts yelling, "I hear you! We're coming! Where are you??!!" And he and my husband are running through all these yards with a flashlight and yelling, "We're coming!"

I kept yelling at them, "It's the goats!" I laughed so hard I nearly peed myself. I was rolling on the front lawn and then I noticed the flashlight stopped bouncing around and then it headed back our way slowly--obviously no farmer was in trouble. They ran about a 1/4 of a mile to find out it was goats all along. I tried to tell them...

me,
gretch

 

[okiemommy]

Turn a key? Is the key hard to turn? Is the key to the bell spring loaded? I would think that the dog wouldn't be able to turn the key either. Did the banging sound like banging a dog could make? All things to consider.

 

[ruth]

Yeah it's the doorbell that got me. I'm used to the dogs trying to open the door and get in and even though this time it sounded more like someone shaking the door and trying to push it open. I still headed to doors thinking it was the dogs. But when that door bell rang - you could have knocked me over with a feather. My heart dropped. I just knew someone was there.

In hindsight if she was standing up on hind legs, Scarlett could have possibly reached and turned the bell by hitting at it with her paws but I dunno...

It looks like the bells that we used to have on our bikes - but it's a large brass bell - half dome - with key sticking out of top of bell that has to be turned back and forth to make it ring. No one knows it's the doorbell and everyone asks "what's that?"

 

[maplesky7]

But if a dog is frantically pawing at a key it's possible to have gotten rung in the pawing action...it's possible. Doesn't hurt to have motion lights and other security matters...just in case.

And I love the black lab and glowing eyes at the bedroom window story...that's too funny.

I came home once to kids with masks on and guns...pellet guns but still they didn't flinch...I expected them to run and my girls were crying. Get out of my yard. My dog was on the chain and he had roped himself up and had no slack, they were right by my coop...I went and confronted the parents behind us who had at least 7 teenage boys in their yard and the dad picked up a pellet and threw it at me and said, "It's just pellet guns."

I said, I don't know that. My young children don't know that, you scared my dog half to death and my chickens. So he says, Well, I never called the police on your chickens. I said, I'm zoned ag. it wouldn't matter. So basically, I was trying to be neighborly and with all the pleasantness I could muster basically told them to stay off my property. He couldn't understand and kept saying, their boys and didn't you run all around when you were a kid?

Yeah, but only in the kids yards I was playing with. My girls are 2 and 6 and wouldn't be playing with teenage boys. Besides I don't want pellet guns near my property, animals, kids...

Anyway...dogs are crafty...some teenage boys and a few selective people are not.

me,
g

 

[ruth]

It's a 100 year old plantation home complete with cemetary and ghosts (depending on whose stories you're listening to). So maybe it was the ghost who rang the bell. The door bell pre-dates electricity - thus the hand ringing it requires. If it had been an electric doorbell that a dog could just push a button with it's paw wouldn't have been a big deal.

O.K. now I'll get myself all wondering again.

 

[maplesky7]

quit it!!!!!

My husbands deployed to Iraq and I AM NOT allowed to get freaked out! ha ha.

me,
g

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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[ruth]

Oh Gretch - my prayers are with you and your husband. My son served a tour in Iraq. I prayed a scripture from Isaiah 54:17 over and over "no weapon formed against you shall prosper." I prayed it over my son and spoke it over him every time we talked and signed every e-mail and Yahoo Chat with it. He once told me "Mom, I liked that scripture so much I had it tattooed on my arm." He was joking about the tattoo.

 

[jossanne]

LOL That reminds me... one night I was up late, in the dark, sitting on the sofa trying to stop coughing. DH was in the room sleeping, and I heard a metallic sound. I thought it was one of our mean neighbor dogs looking in the back door, nosing around the dogfood pan, so I got the courage to go wake up DH to help me. He came out with his .45 service weapon (he's a police officer) and we looked out the back door and didn't see anything. We sat there in our pj's, DH holding his pistol, waiting, and sure enough we heard the noise again. Nothing at the back door...

The 4th or 5th time we heard the noise, DH was able to track it better, and we discovered our fat housecat, jumping from one folding chair to another at our dining table... we couldn't see him because the tablecloth hung down past the seats!

We went to bed, but neither of us could sleep for a LONG time that night because our hearts were pounding over the scare. What a scary kitty Fat Albert was!

 

[ruth]

Well now it's after midnight and we three are going to sit here and get ourselves all scared if we don't stop. My hubby went to bed two hours ago shortly after it happened.