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Is your dog afraid of the basement?

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I have been setting up a mini theater in my basement so I have been spending a lot of time down there. Every time I am down there my dog just sits at the top of the stairs the whole time. Every time I walk by her tail wags and she gets excited but wont come down. I carried her down once and I could feel her claws extending as we got closer to the bottom. I set her down and she went right back up the stairs to sit at the top and look at me
 
current dog won't willingly go down in the basement unless tempted with food or something... no clue why, my parents old dog practically lived down there.
 
Could be something as simple as the steep stairs.

Not that your dog necessarily couldn't do 'em, but is simply making an executive decision, content to stay at the top and sit there thinking "All your smell are us" in dog-pictures.
 
My dog was, but that was because my parents locked him in the basement when he was 3-4 years old during a party. It was serious effort to coax him down there again, and he NEVER let you get between him and the stairs once he was down there. You usually would need to give him a treat after too.
 
My dogs used to be afraid of going down the stairs inside the house but one day they wandered down the bulkhead stairs from the outside and they got over it.
 
My dog is afraid of everything. He's pooped himself in fear. You don't want to ever had a dog to poop himself with his tail between his legs.
 
Originally posted by: Bignate603
My dog is afraid of everything. He's pooped himself in fear. You don't want to ever had a dog to poop himself with his tail between his legs.
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:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
there's a poltergeist in your basement, dogs sense them. :Q
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That is what I came in here to say, too.

OP, was someone murdered in your basement? 😉

MotionMan
 
Originally posted by: MotF Bane
My dog was, but that was because my parents locked him in the basement when he was 3-4 years old during a party. It was serious effort to coax him down there again, and he NEVER let you get between him and the stairs once he was down there. You usually would need to give him a treat after too.
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This is a common reason why animals may be afraid of specific places like basements. I know at least 3 dogs that got locked in basements or garages and are since very afraid of them. In this way they aren't that different from people. The negative association is most likely linked to a traumatic event.
 
Sorry Florida doesn't have basements. But I once knew a dog that wouldn't go in the kitchen because one time his owned dropped a pan and it made a loud noise. Now he walks all the way around the thing.

:sun:
 
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Sorry Florida doesn't have basements. But I once knew a dog that wouldn't go in the kitchen because one time his owned dropped a pan and it made a loud noise. Now he walks all the way around the thing.

:sun:
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You know... that's funny. I noticed that. Why is that? Is there a general reason why floridian houses don't have basements? I have family in FLA and I realize none of their homes have basements. I figured it was just due to a style of house but they all have different style homes. Is it something about the soil? Lack of heating equipment?
 
Originally posted by: dakels
Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
Sorry Florida doesn't have basements. But I once knew a dog that wouldn't go in the kitchen because one time his owned dropped a pan and it made a loud noise. Now he walks all the way around the thing.

:sun:
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You know... that's funny. I noticed that. Why is that? Is there a general reason why floridian houses don't have basements? I have family in FLA and I realize none of their homes have basements. I figured it was just due to a style of house but they all have different style homes. Is it something about the soil? Lack of heating equipment?
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IT would be RATHER wet and MUSTY.
 
He can probably smell oldsmoboat lurking down there. I know I'd be scared.

KT
 
I don't blame my dog for not wanting to go into the basement back home. Hell, I don't want to go into that basement. My basement is like... the classic image of a basement you know something is lurking within. I'd rather not venture down and return upstairs all possessed and whatnot. 😉

The stairs could freak my dog out, the darkness and dustiness could, or something undetectable to us... possibly even ghosts. Of which I do believe my house has had a ghostly visitor before, or still lives there. I've heard things man.... that and a film video camera caught static in a certain area in the master bedroom as I was doing a 360 pan just playing around with the new camera at the time. As I swept around a second time, same general location, but moved a little, the static returned, but wasn't anywhere else. In that corner of the room, there was no electrical outlets, no electronics, nothing but the bed and a dresser. It was strange, and coupled with hearing the things I heard... I'm sold. 😛
 
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