Last night we had a thunderstorm and as some of you may recall, we have a scared little beagle living in our house. Harper is TERRIFIED of thunder, lightening, and fireworks. So as a precautionary measure (since i didn’t want to be getting up in the middle of the night when my dog starts crying behind the sunroom door) we let Harper sleep with us in our bed. This is never an ideal thing because 2 people and 2 dogs (Jack sometimes sleeps on the bed) manage to make even a king bed seem small and cramped.

So it began. Harper at first settled in and started to doze off. So did I. Josh was already asleep. The the craziest thing started. Harper started what I can only describe as ’snatching’ at imaginary bugs. I say imaginary because nothing was buzzing or flying around our bedroom last night. He did this for awhile before I finally got the bright idea to at least take off his collar so at least the constant snatching wasn’t also making jingling noises. I got so frustrated and I finally banished him from my side of the bed and told him if he didn’t stop then i was banishing him from the bedroom altogether. I’m not sure how much a beagle understands but he did go over and monopolize Josh’s side of the bed for the remainder of the night. I guess the thunder really did put the fear of God into him.

Anyway, here’s a video I took this morning as he is still doing the snatching. Anyone have any ideas why he’s doing this? Pay close attention especially at the end of the video as he really starts in on the ‘bugs’ during the last few seconds of the clip. Also, there isn’t a problem with the sound, you can faintly hear him snapping at things but I promise he wasn’t barking at all.