Do You Think Animals Worry About Things?

@FreestyleArt oh joy tornado season is here already. I’ll eventually have tornado nightmares, haven’t had my first one yet this season.

@FreestyleArt I had a male parakeet that would get scared and have anxiety pacing back and forth on his perch saying “weep, weep” over and over when he’d hear the word “storm” a few times in one weather broadcast. He started that after a tornado warning when i got all of the bird cages into the hallway and shut the doors, turn off the hall light and climbed in the lower linen closet with my laptop, phone & purse. Waited till the tornado went over the house, it sounded like a freight train engine cycling as it twisted over and past. I climbed back out of the closet and got the birds back to the living room. Someone called and I told him what we did, Baby (the worrier) heard me tell the short story & when I stopped he said “Weep, Weep!” In a scared voice. We had a long line of thunderstorms that lasted about 2 hours a couple months later and he fussed the whole time, didn’t bother the other birds. Then in the winter the meteorologist kept talking the snowstorm one morning, he started fussing again. I had to pick his cage up and take him out in the sun room and show him the snow falling and explain that a winter storm wasn’t scary and wouldn’t hurt us....he calmed right down.

@cherokeepatti crazy. the reason I brought it up. I heard there's going to be a huge storm and wonder Animals can sense weather patterns far away. do you live in the south

@FreestyleArt Oklahoma, already had a tornado in the western part I think. The cold front is in states east of us now. The winds sure blew strong and are still blowing here. I heard they had a blizzard in western Oklahoma near the panhandle area after having springlike weather before the front came in.