Ben growls at nothing sometimes as well. Makes me laugh really, he tries to look all fierce and dangerous

That's strange. Maybe needs a doggie doctor

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Hey i had same thing with my stafie Lola, we went to my dads house 1 day and hes got a long cabinet in his back room which dog can go under, on this 1 night there was a certain spot that she would not go past it was like there was something there stopping her going past she just growled and kept jumping back like something was tryining to grab her, it was quite scary!!

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Douglas used to do it all the time - sometimes at 4 o clock in the morning!
At first I got a bit freaked out by it too, but then I realised that it was little things like the wind, or a car door shutting outside, or someone walking past the house, or the water pipes gurgling, that was setting him off.
I started asking him "what is it", encouraging him to make sure for himself that there wasnt anything wrong, and eventually he learnt to trot off, go and have a nose round, decide that everything was ok, and then settle back down again!!!

Sounds like your dog is going to make a great guard dog!!!

Tams x

Ha ha, not a chance, she'd make a dreadful guard dog!
Shes a complete softie, loves people and is very quick to act submissivly.. though i'll eat my words if killer fireplaces start trying to get into the house

Ah, shes not done it since and seems happy enough to be around the fire place now.. my dad recons it may have been a fox barking outside which she could hear distorted down the chimney. Shes one of those dogs who randomly decides the TV is trying to tell her something important, when she'd usually just ignore it, so i guess it isn't all that strange for her.