White dog shaker syndrome is a thing.
♫ Somewhere there’s a Golden Retriever.
Who’s having a seizure.
Somewhere there’s a pup seizing up.
And there’s a labrador.
Who’s shaking on the floor.
Think about the epileptic dogs.
…
Come on and make a donation.
To save a shaking dalmatian. ♫
I read that when a dog shakes to get water off her fur, scientists have estimated the first shake removes about 70% of the water. It’s surprisingly efficient.
I have a chihuahua-dachshund mix, so shivering is kind of her go-to “poor pitiful me” gesture.
The choice of tense “is shaking” is the present progressive, and suggests a *continuing *action happening now. I suppose it *could *mean a dog is shaking off water, but that action is so short it’s usually over by the time you could say it.
If instead the question were about “the dog shook” it would be more ambiguous.
In crafting the OP, I was less concerned with the tense, and more generally asking what you think of when a dog shakes.
Yes but, as people have pointed out, the tense influences the answer.
Kind of like, if you said “The dog barked,” some of us would imagine a dog giving one solitary yap; but if you said “The dog is barking” we’d have no choice but to imagine something longer and more ongoing.
Fair enough, and dig as deep into it as you’d like when casting your vote, it’s entirely up to the person casting the vote how they choose their selection. Just know I didn’t intend for that.
- My dog “water shook” all the time - it was her calling card- and that’s the first one I thought about.
- But then, here in San Antonio, chihuahua’s are popular and those little shits are always shivering.
My first mental image was a Chihuahua quivering as it barked in an attempt to sound tough.
I knew a dog who had seizures. It wasnt so much shaking as jerking and flopping. Alot of foamy drool and vocalizations. Scary.
The wind is blowing real loudly, or it’s the 4th of July.
My first thought was the old saying “Shaking like a dog trying to shit a peach pit.”
Between reading the title and the page loading I thought 2 and 3, so I voted other.