Lody and Mowers

[threeringedmoon]

Originally published at Five Acres with a View. You can comment here or there.

I knew Lody, our elderly Smooth Collie, hates lawn mowers, but she still surprised me this afternoon. I was cutting the weeds in the dog run. I leave the dogs inside the house when I do this, but forgot and left open the door to the mudroom which has a dog door leading to the dog run. I saw this tri-color streak and I had barely stopped the lawn mower when Lody attacked it, biting one of the tires. She stopped attacking when I cut off the motor. Lody is usually such a laid-back dog that it made her behavior even more surprising. After I put her back in the house she kept barking until I finished.

Comments

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Cats feel this way about vacuum cleaners (except they usually run away rather than attack).

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Lody also tried to attack a vacuum cleaner soon after she moved in, but she no longer does so. She just leaves the room now.

[richardthe23rd.livejournal.com]

I heard my cat in the bathroom hissing vehemently at something, and when I investigated found he was glaring at the vacuum cleaner's power cord, which was protruding under the linen closet door. Whether he thought some snakelike creature had invaded the house, or he recognized his ancient ancestral enemy the vacuum cleaner, I have no idea.