什么是“狗恍惚”？_风闻

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正文原创翻译：

What in the World Is Dog Trancing?

什么是“狗恍惚”？

Dog trancing is the phenomenon when a dog walks slowly beneath something that lightly touches his back — usually leaves or draperies — and it puts him in a “trance-like” state

“狗恍惚”指的是当一条狗慢慢地走到某个东西下面，比如树叶或者布帘下时，会被这些东西触碰到背部，然后让这条狗陷入“恍惚”的状态。

Ivy Sue was the greatest of Danes — all 147 pounds (66 kilograms) of her. Yet, she was a bit neurotic, or so I thought. Although she outweighed every cat in the house by at least 135 pounds (61 kilograms), Ivy never walked up the stairs if one was in her way. At night, she’d spin around and around and around on her bed (10 to 15 times) before she slammed her body down to go to sleep. I suspect she was checking for snakes.

埃维.苏是大丹麦犬，她有147磅（66公斤）。然而她有点神经过敏，至少我是这么想的。虽然她比房子里的任何一支猫都重（这些猫每只至少有61公斤），即使有一只猫挡着她的道了，她也不会走开。晚上的时候，她就在绕着她的床打转，一般是10到15次，然后才重重地躺下去睡觉。我怀疑她在检查有没有蛇在附近。

She also used to do something very curious — something that I thought very odd, but wasn’t overly concerned about: She’d slowly walk to the Rose of Sharon (Ivy did everything slowly) on the side of the house and slix under its boughs, staring straight ahead as if she was in a trance.

她经常做一些奇妙的事情，这些事让我觉得她很怪，但是我不会很在意这些事。她走到房子一侧的木槿花边上（埃维做任何事情都是慢条斯理的），然后偷偷走到大树枝下，双眼直视前方，好像她在恍惚得为某件事入迷一样。

She’d stand there for 10 to 15 minutes. She did it so much that when she passed we put a memorial plaque with her name under the bush. To be honest, she also used to stand under the big maple in the back and hang out under its weighty branches. She also used to cuddle up to a huge tuft of tiger grass in the rock garden.

她就这样站在那里10到15分钟。她做这件事好几回了，当它经过那里的时候，我们就把带有她的名字的纪念徽章放在灌木下面。说实话，她也常常站在大枫树下面，让枫叶接触到她的背，然后在重重的树枝下闲逛。她也经常拥抱着假山花园里的一个巨大的丛生植物虎草。

It wasn’t until the other day that I found out I was not the only dog owner whose pets exhibited this strange behavior. It even has a name — “trancing” or ghost-walking. It’s when a dog creeps under the branches of a bush or tree, or under the curtains in the living room and lets the branches or curtains brush along their back, seemingly going into a trance.

直到那一天我才知道我不是唯一一个自己养的狗狗会表现出这种奇怪行为的主人。这种行为叫做“狗恍惚”，或者幽灵行走。这就是当一条狗爬行在一棵灌木或者树的枝叶下面的时候，或者在起居室的窗帘下的时候，让枝叶或者窗帘刷着它的背部，这时的狗狗表现出一种很入迷、很享受的“恍惚”的样子。

The behavior, as best as anyone has been able to tell, is harmless, albeit weird. One study published in the journal Veterinary Record found trancing in bull terriers (a breed that tops the list in trancing) is “apparently purposeless.” It seems to be something that dogs just do for reasons no one can decide.

这种行为虽然怪诞，但是任何人都会说它“人畜无害”。一份发表在《兽医记录》杂志上的论文认为牛头梗犬（这是一种最容易出现“狗恍惚”的狗）做这样的事情很显然没有什么目的性。看上去狗狗做这件事是随着自己性子来的，没有人能够左右它让它不要做这件事。

What should you do if your dog is trancing? Some experts recommend asking your pet to do something else, although they might not listen to you. As for me, I just let Ivy be Ivy. As long as she was happy, so was I.

那么，当你的狗狗进入“狗恍惚”的状态时，你应该做些什么呢？有些专家建议要求你的狗去做别的事情，尽管它们很有可能不会听你的话。至于我，我就让埃维做埃维自己愿意做的事情，只要它很开心，我也会很开心的。