Dogs And Aliens
I live in the deep mountains. I'm talking a 45 min drive to the nearest small town. We are nearly completely isolated, and surrounded on all sides by thousands of acres of national forest. It is the real deal to live there, and not uncommon for large predators to roam through our property, grizzlies, lions, wolves, etc. To help combat this, my wife and I have several large shepard dogs that roam the property. They do an excellent job rerouting wildlife around the property, marking, and just being good survival companions. If something goes bump in the night, either the dogs freak out, or they dont. After awhile, you learn interpret their barking and growling, from batshit panic when a bear is outside, to annoyed "I'm trying to sleep" yapping when a raccoon gets in the trash. Still, you never get fully used to them barking in the night. There's always a "what if" in the back of your head.
Well, I let them inside to eat at night or when it's too cold to be outside. One December evening my wife and I had them in and were watching Planet Earth. No big deal, we're all a big happy family gathered around the TV. My shepard's love to watch the television, see all the cool animals.
We had watched several episodes and they never made a peep when they saw sharks, elephants, komodos, hyenas, blah, blah. Then came the mountain episode and they were on high alert but still calm. Until they cut to a night vision scene of a mountain lion stalking in the dark.
They all lost it. Nearly knocked over tv trying to attack it.
Our youngest pup (still 80lb) jumped on our laps and was visibly shaking and full tilt barking and growling. It was unnerving to say the least. We get lions around here, but to see how keen the dogs were on just a clip of one really demonstrated not only the fact that they were intimately familiar with the threat, but that they instinctively knew what one looked like prowling in the night. It was an inherent threat and they not only knew it, but were scared to death of it. We had watched hundreds of hours of shows with them and never once got that reaction before...
Alright, thanks for sticking with me this far. Here's the shit your pants scary part of the story. I really dont even like writing it, because the whole thing still freaks us out to this day.
We are again all inside on a cold winter night. My wife and I plop down to watch some tv, and the dogs gather around intently. I decide to throw on a stupid alien documentary my friend recommended.
The dogs watch closely, but seem normal. Then the documentary shows some supposed pics of greylings lurking in the night.
THE DOGS FUCKING LOSE IT.
Worse than the mountain lions. Holy shit, we have to turn the tv off to stop the dogs from destroying the house and even then they are all super freaked out, tucked tails, whimpering, the works.
Again, we watch tv with them all the fucking time and nothing has ever got them riled up, let alone full panic, except for these two instances...
After we calm the dogs down, my wife and I sat in silence for a long while as the horror slowly washed over us. That "what if" when you hear the dogs freaking out in the middle of the night apparently could be aliens. Not. Fucking. Cool.
TLDR: My dogs told me there are aliens wandering our property at night.
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