Hi
I have a 3yr old weimeraner whose behaviour has become very strange in the last week or so and wondered if anyone can enlighten  me about it.
In the mornings after he has his food, about 7 am he comes up into my bedroom and sleeps in or on the bed until i eventually get up.He sleeps in his bed on the landing during the night.
A week ago he came into the bedronn as usual and got onto the bed but woudnt sit down, he stood on the bed and then jumped as if someone had grabbed his behind, he jumped around and looked behind him and then up at the lightr fitting above the bed.
He stood looking around as if to look for the person who had touched him.He jumped off the bed and ran out of the room.
He now will not come into the room in the mornings at all.He opens the bedroom door but will not come into the room, he stands at the door just looking at me wagging his tail. If i call him to come in he turns round and walks away. He will come into the room for a biscuit but grabs it and runs out again.
And today he is starting to do the same thing in the living room.
Its as if there is a ghost in the room that i cant see and he can.

I am trying to ignore it but he has been coming into my room for nearly 3 years for our morning cuddle and now he wont even enter the room.I have tried calling him but he will not come any further than the door bar.This morning he actually had food and stayed in the living room on the sofa and then he wouldnt even come up the stairs.
Any ideas anyone??

Sounds like something either bit him (bug) or perhaps he had picked up a small thorn in his fur and unfortunately at the time he sat on your bed it stuck in him causing him to jump.  Because he doesn't know what caused him to jump he has associated it with your bed. In other words he has now associated the negative experience (perhaps thorn) sticking in him with your bed and bedroom causing him now to be scared of your room.

no sorry, nothing has stung him or bitten him because he does it in other rooms also but mainly in the bedroom.
honestly if you were to see him it is like when you play with someone and touch them but they dont see you do it and you whip your hand away before they see and then do it again.He didnt even sit on my bed he was standing up and he whipped round looking at his backside then looking at the ceiling then back to his bum and so on, as i said very weird.

thats strange and spokie , So,  Who You Gonna Call? ;-)
sorry couldnt resist that ,,
check this out
http://canadaufo.blogspot.com/2008/02/dogs-senses-presence-of-ghost.html
i will say that when my eldest son was about 8 months old , (he's nearly 22 yrs now)
i had his cot in a corner of my bedroom and out of nowhere he oneday started screaming at the wall by the side of his cot he was terrified everytime i held him and leaned him near the spot he would cling to my for life and scream really bad , it was scary i ended up having to move the cot out of the room was a really bad time never did know why or what he was screaming at we moved soon after and that was end of it but as a new mum then it really frightened me i swear it was ghost that only my baby could see,

I am not worried about ghosts but why has it suddenly started to pick on poor Dylan, its doing his head in,Poor boy LOL

It's best to get him checked over by a vet just to rule out any ailment.

>he jumped around and looked behind him and then up at the lightr fitting above the bed.

This may seem like an odd thing, but how about changing your lightbulbs, see if that makes a difference.
My dog doesn't go upstairs, but I have a very keen sense of hearing and pulled my bedroom apart looking for this annoying electrical humming, I gave up looking, turned the light out and went to bed. As I turned the light off, the noise stopped - it was the new energy saving lightbulb that was makiing the noise, it drives me nuts but my OH can't hear it.
Maybee your dog heard a lightbulb and simply got spooked by it??? A bit of a long-shot but you never know!

Or maybee your dog is very sensitive to feeling the electrical feild in the atmosphere (which is greater obviously around ellectical currents, ie wiring, lights etc.) and you have an increase electrical current or your dog is suddenly extra sensitive to it, maybe becasue he is under-the-weather and feeling vulnerable?
This may seem way-out, but a little more logical & solvable than ghosts (allthough I do believe in ghosts).

Another thought, it could simply be a negative association he made with entering a room. Eg, he jumpled on your bed and got bit by a flea/pulled a muscle/landind oddly and felt a strange sensation/noticed something he never has before which spooked him etc.. and now he associates this frightened feeling with entering a room, which would explain why he is now reluctant to go into the livingroom too.

My dog suddenly had a fear of my livingroom and I realised that he had been spooked by a controller falling on the floor and that my faffing around him had made his fear worse :( - I wrote a blog on it.

>I have tried calling him but he will not come any further than the door bar.

I've learnt that if my dog is wary of something, if I try to encourage him it is too much pressure for him and makes him worse, he has to do things in his own time, without me pushing him in any way. Rewarding his advances is good but to try to encourage my dog with treats/voice/praise when he is wary will have the opposite effect.

maybe he's got a tick or something niping him in a sensative place , but the ghost thing would be more of a mysterious thing wouldnt it ;-) ,
dont really know if i belive in ghosts although the incedent with my son was worring  and they do say dogs and kids can see what some of us cant ,
hope you find out whats bothering your boy,
would make a great thread,  Has anyone else ever thought their dog may have seen or sensed a ghost,
would like to see what experiances other may have had on this subject,

> Has anyone else ever thought their dog may have seen or sensed a ghost,

Yes!! OH & I were convinced that our last dog was seeing ghosts. All of a suddenn he would jump up, run towards the livingroom wall barking & growling - nothing was there, he would also sit on our bed staring at the wall all 'puffed up' like he was trying to look macho to scare something away.
This was going on a few weeks before we realised that the barking & growling he was doing at the livingroom wall was directed at a small hole (made by a nail to hang a picture) and when he was sat on our bed staring at the wall - he was actuall looking in the mirror!
If we had got carried away with the ghost explanation it soon would have escalated into a noghtmare. As we knew what was causing his behaviour we could tell him to 'leave it' and he would listen because we weren't frightened of the ghosts (if we said 'leave it' when we were worried about ghosts he wouldn't listen - he was obviously picking up on our fear).

Dogs are much more in tune with our inner feelings than we give them credit for, which (IMO) is why it can be so tricky to get them out of fearfull behaviour - if they pick up on our fears/uncertainty it makes things worse.

do you have a metal bed maybe he got a static shock

I was thinking on the same lines could be static shock from carpet or bedclothes, or of course a sudden pain, say joint pain, which he now associates with the places where he felt it.

I would have him checked by the Vet to rule out a health issue.

It could be his anal glands? My GSP has done similar jump and look at bottom then start licking it if glands are bothering him. Or an insect/flea bite? Or maybe he f*rted - always makes Dorain jump, that. :-D

And Dorain loved pigs ears - but one day he got a sharp bit which hurt his mouth - and he was in two minds because he loved them but knew they had hurt him. He took the pigs ear, brough it in my room, put it on his bed, then left the room and stood in the doorway and refused to come in!!  Had to do some positive reinforcement work on pigs ears!! So it's probably something similar. :-) HTH.

> i will say that when my eldest son was about 8 months old , (he's nearly 22 yrs now)
> i had his cot in a corner of my bedroom and out of nowhere he oneday started screaming at the wall by the side of his cot he was terrified everytime i held him and leaned him near the spot he would cling to my for life and scream really bad , it was scary i ended up having to move the cot out of the room was a really bad time never did know why or what he was screaming at we moved soon after and that was end of it but as a new mum then it really frightened me i swear it was ghost that only my baby could see,

When I was still in my cot, I remember having a nightmare in which a large chipmunk type monster chewed its way through one corner of the room, then came over and started chewing the bars of my cot, to try and kill me. I remember it vividly, and could describe the position of the cot in relation to window and wall etc now - and I refused to sleep in my cot after that. So it could have been a nightmare? (Admittedly I was older than 8 months, but it could still have been a nightmare or association.)

My middle Lab Puds started to act very strangely when we walked past a certain part of a wall. She stopped dead and refused to walk past. The only way we could move on was to walk across the road. This happened for a few months then one day she just walked past without any problems. Very peculiar !

Funny you should say about his anal glands he has been licking his bottom for a few weeks on and off and i did wonder about anal glands but i know nothing at all about anal glands so didnt really think much more about it. I have had male dogs before but neve had any problems either. I will look into this one!!

Could it be a bit of static electricity scared him? He may have been on the carpet and then on the bed and got a little shock?

My son has to make sure our cat scarer thing is off in the garden he could hear it, no one else could!! It was up on the garage roof the damn cats would sit there sticking there tonges out at Whistler on the patio I swear they did.