After seeing my own dog jump off a bridge this past Saturday, I have been interested in why a dog might perform such an act.
In Bella's case, I strongly believe that she saw the wall of the bridge as being similar to the brick retaining walls at home, and assumed solid ground is always on the other side of similar short walls.
However, one Wikipedia article suggests some other possibilities. The Overtoun bridge dog deaths in Scotland suggest that some bodies of water carry scents that make the air just off the bridge smell like something the dog really wants. This is interesting. I also found another blog about the same bridge, and I similarly found another article on dog suicide which talks about the Overtoun bridge as a reading lesson to teach English. There are more articles, but I'll leave that to the reader to research.
This might remain a mystery, but it will be some time before I get the image out of my head of my dog hanging from a bridge by her harness. Crazy dog.
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