lol yeah av always kept collies and know of the troubles thats why hes training to do agilaty now its just freaky watching him in the house even tho hes trained daily and walked if theres no training on for a good few hours twice a day and hes still mad altho at about 10 at night he gos off to bed lol

The thing that makes Bailey like your description is fireworks, matches being struck, clipper lighters being ignighted,
Lip licking is usually before sickness, but also can be toothache??
I wouldn't think ' a spirit' has suddenly appeared, are you still in the same house as before hun, not moved recently?
It's not anything to do with his back is it? has he totally recovered from that now? wondered if it could be pressure on a nerve that has happened in a certain room and now he associates that room with pain?

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Sorry to say but this sort of behaviour sounds like a neurologial issue to me.

Thanks Guys

Well he appeared to be 'normal' this morning, did come downstairs, had breakfast and came into the living room, no looking around.

My next door neighbour was sanding their hallway, which would connect to our hallway, that my of upset him hearing that noise and not wondering where it was coming from?

Daisy - Yup that was my first fear, but to be honest he has recovered so well from that, but we'll take him to the vet just for a once over.

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Mmmm i wonder if he sensed the earthquake and this was the build up to it???

Maybe a long shot, but it will be interesting too see if his behaviour changes now

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I've just found this thread and was going to post that licking lips is also a sign of tooth problems, but Daisy beat me to it. I was also going to suggest that this kind of behaviour can also be caused by eyesight problems. Then I came to your final post. It could have been a build up to the earthquake because animals do sense these things.

My friend's grandmother lived in a Welsh pit village and had a deaf cat. Occasionally it used to behave strangely, just like your dog, and eventually they worked out that it always happened before there was a collapse in the pit!

It will be really interested to note whether this behaviour returns and then there's another quake within the next 2 weeks. Shouldn't take long to test it out as it seems that there's some sort of quake down your way about every year or so!

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