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Anyone have any experience with their dog reacting nervously to the
smell of wood? My dog used to love to hang out in the zootcave where I
keep my guitars and zoot. I’ve noticed he will not go in there now.
Yesterday I managed to get him in there when I was eating some food.
After the food was gone and he could not leave he started freaking out.
He first hid under the desk. I got him on my lap, 50 lbs dog so not
exactly a lap dog, and he started shaking and panting like my parents
neurotic dog does in the car. Once he gets out of the room he’s fine.

I can only think that some piece of wood smells toxic to him. From the
swap meet I acquired some various spruce sets, black limba, bubinga,
makore, leopardwood, walnut, Aus Blackwood, Mal Blackwood ad a chunk
of spalted maple. Maybe he doesn’t like the spalted maple or coco. I
have some Port Orford Cedar, but have had that for a while.

Zach

Hmmmm, I've seen this before. It's entirely possible your zootcave is haunted and the dog is hyper-sensitive to the presence of a spirit that your senses cannot detect. A zoot Ghost as it were.

Or it could be that he's afraid of that leopardwood. Leopard - big cat, get it, cat/dog...is this thing on????

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Zach,

Dogs have really ken senses of smell. Perhaps he is reacting to something that is irritating him?
Try isolating different woods by shrink-wrapping and airing out the place. Maybe you can figure out what it is that's getting to him. Either that, or spare the poor guy from being stuck in the room.

Poor doggie...if only they could talk and tell us what they're feeling...

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If you find out what it is let us know.

I'll bury some shavings of it where my dog digs. That should sort him out.

Zach yes I have experienced this with Sony my pooch too.

It happens every time I make a nut or saddle out of bone on my belt sander.  Sony starts running in circles, salivating, and acting rather frantic......

When I sand bone on the belt sander it does smell like burning hair at times and I am sure this is what he is reacting too.

Also - the other day while sanding some mahogany the zoot smelled just like pee.  And again Sony started the neurotic behavior and I was kind of grossed out by the smell too.  I wondered if my mahogany was cut from a billet that originally was leg high on the tree........

huh ... our current foster dog (about to become a seeing eye dog), Josh, today decided it would be cool to sit under the end of the bench where it was snowing sawdust as I used the kutzall disc on the angle grinder to carve a neck .. he wasn't that black of a lab once I finished. He also has keen ears, and shows up shortly after the dust collector fires up to see what I am doing ... Emma the older brown lab on the other hand doesn't really care, unless there is food.

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He used to really like the room. He'd lye there while I play or surf the
web. When the temp and humidity are right to leave the room open, I
used to find him lying in there all by himself. It just seemed odd and
thought someone may have experianced something similar. The only
other time he acted this way was when I brunt something in the oven and
he thought the house was going up in flames. Now that the shop in the
basement is climate controlled I can take sets down there one by one. The
lower chamber of the zootcave.

Don, dogs aren’t that hard to figure out. Its either food, play, poop or
sex. No too far off from us men.

He's probably looking at all the zoot you bought at the swap meet and is nervous that you won't be able to afford to buy him food for the next week.

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Thanks,
Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

Ya, I had to drop $81 today for a big bag of dog food, cat food and litter.
I could have bought a nice top for that.

Then your dog would have really been shaking.

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Thanks,
Blain

http://www.ullrichguitar.com

"89.67% of all statistics are made up on the spot."

I asked this same question in Bruce Dickeys thread about flea conditioner! My dog has a bad allergy too.Thanks to Billy T for the help- Brown rice with veg. oil mixed in with a can of dog food relieved all allergy symtoms!

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Well! That makes 3 dogs helped! Huhm! Must be something to it!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Perhaps rabid 'dogwood'

Put the spalted Maple and Coco in another room and see if he reacts the same way to it.

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