Last night our sensitive shelty dog began barking beside the bed. Then he tore down the stairs barking growling and carrying on. We looked out. The moon was very bright we could see all over the yard...no one in sight. Only shadows and bright moon. We went back to bed. This dog continued this for a couple of hours. Finally we told him to shut up. But at the same time I slipped down to the computer to see if there were any earthquakes tearing up the world. Aha! sure enough here on the forum some one told of a prediction of earthquakes in northern California and others over the next 72 hours. When we had the Turkish large quake, our dog did the same thing. Are other people's dogs acting up over eaarthquakes or maybe it is the bright moon that is scaring him. Can we have some feedback on how the animals are acting this week. Thanx

-- Gay Boling (Wilber@montanasky.net), December 21, 1999

Answers

Hi Guy, you might check out Charlotte King's site. She is a "sensitive" and makes predictions based on her symptoms. Check out her site at: http://www.viser.net/~charking/

also you might want to check out the syzigy (see previous earthquake thread on this board for URL.

-- formerly (formerly@nowhere.zzz), December 21, 1999.

Isn't the full moon supposed to be on the 22nd (Wed)?

-- gary elliott (gelliott@real.on.ca), December 21, 1999.

Our dog has been acting nuts the past few days. Wanders around all night. Seems really tense. Came up the steps yesterday and a black cat was looking in my kitchen window. Scared the bajeebers out of me.

-- (Here@today.com), December 21, 1999.

Our dog raised hell off and on all night. I never considered earthquakes, but she's always been very sensitive to thunder storms.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), December 21, 1999.

Yes, the full moon is on wednesday the 22nd, but perhaps the hours and days leading up to it and leading away can also be significant in regards to the forces involved. I read the URL on this forum last night and thought it most enlightening. Charlott's link...she doesn't have any dire earthquake predictions as of yet.

-- Gay Boling (wilber@montanasky.net), December 21, 1999.

Our dogs have been going nuts for about a week now. We have one that has been named, "The Dog That Barks At Sh*t We Can't See", and she has been working overtime. Never thought about matching up their instinctive behaviors to world events. They are very good at letting us know what's up in the 'spirit' world. Have you also noticed that the Hawks and Buzzards are all flying extrememly low now, which is another message altogether. Time to focus on immediate surroundings and let the big picture go for now.

-- We should all (learn.from.the@animals.now), December 21, 1999.

Here's a thought:

Tomorrow is the brightest full moon in 122 years. Some people think that a significant event will happen because of it. Now, if something significant is going to happen because of tomorrow's full moon, then logic would say that something significant also happened 122 years ago during the last, brightest full moon. Start researching.....

-- impala (impala@wild.com), December 21, 1999.

Yes to the Hawks and Buzzards. My brother-in-law had a hawk land on his deck. Unheard of where he lives.

-- (Here@today.com), December 21, 1999.

Here's a link to a page that reports all earthquake activity. It was posted in another thread a while back...

Link

-- BH (bh_silentvoice@hotmail.com), December 21, 1999.

Impala,

Can't remember the thread but an Indian Chief planned an attack because of that long ago full moon. maybe someone can find the thread.

-- (Here@today.com), December 21, 1999.

Bright Full Moon

-- (bright@full.moon), December 21, 1999.

I love that indian name "the dog that barks at sh*t we can't see. I have often wondered about this dog we have. He understands our conversations many times. We have remarked about how he barks at things we cannot see. My husband named him "dog who barks at nothing." This is nuts, but we bought him on an indian reservation. Many times he turns around like he sees something. He stares right into space like something is there and then barks. Perhaps some dogs are more spiritual than others. This dog of ours is very spooky. I must add he is a very loving dog. I haven't noticed what the crows were doing lately, but I'll keep my eyes open. I have heard that animals are the alarm or whistle blowers.

-- Gay Boling (wilber@montanasky.net), December 21, 1999.

My dogs slumbered peacefully on my unmade bed this morning. I woke them up to see if they would act crazy, but they only stared at me with groggy eyes, slightly annoyed, slightly confused. Then suddenly, in tandem..they went back to sleep. :-)

They do both bark at the tinsel on the christmas tree though..and chasing them around the house with tinsel is a christmas tradition.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), December 21, 1999.

Gay,

The Crows around here are moving very much and being very vocal. Here's a quote from a dear ally of my family...

Crow Medicine

You must pause and reflect on how you see the laws of the Creator in relation to the laws of humanity. Crow Medicine signifies a firsthand knowledge of a higher order of right and wrong than that indicated by the laws created in human culture. Be willing to walk your talk, speak your truth, know your life's mission and balance past, present, and future in the now. Honor the past as your teacher, honor the present as your creation, and honor the future as your inspiration.

Gray Eagle....

-- We should all (learn.from.the@animals.now), December 21, 1999.

"He stares right into space like something is there and then barks. Perhaps some dogs are more spiritual than others."

Could be spirits.

Or cataracs. Have your vet examine his eyes closely. Something may be floating in his field of vision, & being a dog he hasn't figured it out yet.

-- or maybe not (who@knows.anyway), December 21, 1999.

Our cat was staring at nothing intently yesterday....

-- bow (bo@wow.wow), December 21, 1999.

I never thought of something floating across his lens, like happens to people, the eye doctor says sometimes there is gunk that floats around, but not serious. That could be, but maybe Mr. or maybe not

-- Gay Boling (wilber@montanasky.net), December 21, 1999.

I've been barking a LOT at Flint over the past couple of days. Does that count?

-- BigDog (BigDog@duffer.com), December 21, 1999.

I have a crazy beagle who howls all the time, which makes her useless at predicting anything.

Arrroooooo! Arrroooooo! Arrroooooo!

Perhaps there's an extra "o" on her Arrroooooo's, when she senses something, but who could tell...

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), December 21, 1999.

Thanks for the quote from Grey Eagle.

-- Gay Boling (wilber@montanasky.net), December 21, 1999.

http://terremoto.8m.com/big1999.html

-- Riven (livininriven@aol.com), December 21, 1999.

Subject: The Last Lunar Hurrah of the Millennium

Put your sunglasses on!

Everyone should mark their calendars this month. It will be the Last Lunar Hurrah of the Millennium:

This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that is closest to Earth) The moon will appear about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it's elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth) since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at this time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it brighter.

Also, this will be the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If the weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is believed that even car headlights will be superfluous.

In laymen's terms it will be a super bright full moon, much more than the usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years!

Our ancestor's 133 years ago saw this. Our descendants 100 or so years from now will see this again.

I'm excited, hope you might find this interesting too! Remember this will happen December 22, 1999.....

Pass it on.

Laurie L Brown International Space Station Support Puget Sound Location >

-- Duke 1983 (Duke1983@AOL.com), December 21, 1999.

"On December 21st, 1866 the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this combination of occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming Territory." This sentence was left out of the bit sent by Duke 1983.  So this is one thing that happened the last ti

-- Shivani Arjuna (Sarjuna@aol.com), December 21, 1999.

'Biggest Moon' Myth Sweeps Internet

By Alan M. MacRobert - Boston Globe Correspondent

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/354/science/B

12/20/1999

An astronomical urban legend racing around the country by e-mail chain letter says that a special full moon will supposedly illuminate the Earth on Wednesday night with a spectacular flood of brilliance.

Headlined: ''Next full moon brightest you'll ever see!'' the notice says that due to a rare confluence of events - a full moon occurring on the winter solstice just as it appears at close orbital points to the Earth and Sun - the moon will be bigger and brighter than it's been in more than 100 years. So bright, in fact, that we may not need headlights on if we're driving at night.

Even the Wall Street Journal got taken in with the hype and ran a page one story about the ''phenomenon'' last week under the subhead: ''Big, Bright and Close to Earth. It Could Well Play Tricks Not Seen in Many a Moon.''

Well, before you make plans to bathe in the moonglow, here are the facts. Wednesday's full moon will look normal. You won't see anything unusual about it unless you psych yourself up pretty hard. But like all the best e-mail legends, this one has kernels of truth that keep it alive and multiplying out of control.

It is true, as the chain letter says, that the moon will be at the perigee of its orbit: at its closest to the Earth for this month. It is true that this perigee will be a trace closer than any of the moon's other monthly perigees this year. And it is true that around this time of year, both the Earth and moon are three percent closer to the Sun than when the Earth is on the opposite side of its orbit in June and July.

So Wednesday's moon will indeed appear a bit bigger and brighter than usual. But only a bit. Add up all the effects, and this full moon turns out to be about 19 percent brighter than average. That's a smaller brightness boost than it sounds. The difference would be just detectable to the human eye if you could put an average full moon next to Wednesday's in the sky and compare the two. Failing that, you'd need measuring instruments. A good photographer's light meter, carefully calibrated against an average full moon, would do the trick.

But a moon to dazzle the world? Fugeddabout it.

Of course, many people will go out Wednesday night and be amazed at the moon's brightness. That's because the full moon is always bright. This will likely be the first time some people pay attention.

Another part of the letter that claims this is all happening because this full moon coincides with the December solstice. Solstices don't make the moon brighter or fainter (though at this time of year the full moon does stand high in the sky around the middle of the night, whereas a spring or summer full moon rides lower across the sky).

The chain letter says this is the first time the moon has been so near and bright in 133 years; ''the Lakota Sioux took advantage of the super bright full moon and staged a devastating retaliatory ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming Territory,'' some letters state.

The ambush actually happened at high noon.

In fact, Roger W. Sinnott of Sky & Telescope magazine finds that the moon was actually brighter (by a hair) on January 15,1930, January 4, 1912, and other dates.

This story ran on page C04 of the Boston Globe on 12/20/1999. ) Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.

-- Freethinkr (ima@nut.com), December 21, 1999.

Um, here in the suburbs, where everyone is out of touch with nature, our 6 pound Chihuahua, Buddy (Spanish name: "El Loco") started barking in the garage because I went into the master bath at 12:30 am. It is right over the garage. Then he again got out of his cozy blankey box to bark at a couple walking past our house in the middle of the night arguing with each other. I could hear them, too, they were loud.

And today, Thunder, the fat cat has been meowing at me for no apparent reason. Buddy commenced barking at the Christmas tree. And Clarissa, the skinny kitty, is the weirdest, spookiest animal of all: she literally parks herself in front of you and STARES, unblinkingly for long periods of time.

I do not think my dumb animals have any kind of psychic powers. But man are they cute!

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 21, 1999.

Cats rule, dogs drool.

(Stupid dogs...)

-- Brooks the Cat (brooksbie@hotmail.com), December 21, 1999.

Dogs rule, cats are just cruel.

(Gnarly cats.)

-- Binzer (binzer@the.dog), December 21, 1999.

Hey I LOVE CATS! ( They taste just like chicken.)

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), December 21, 1999.

Hey I LOVE CATS! ( They taste just like chicken.)

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), December 21, 1999.

AND I LOVE YOU, WALTER

-- FART BITER (EAT@ME.NOW), December 22, 1999.