10/07/2025
🌕🐕 TONIGHT’S SUPERMOON & YOUR DOG — MYTH, MAGIC, OR SCIENCE? 🧬✨
Did you feel that strange pull in the air last night? Step outside tonight and it might feel stronger.
Because tonight , Monday, October 6th, the last and brightest supermoon of the year will rise, peaking at 8:48 PM Pacific / 11:48 PM Eastern. While we’re admiring the glow, your dog is already sensing something far deeper.
This isn’t just a beautiful full moon. It’s a rare celestial convergence , the lingering energy of the Harvest Moon merging with the rise of the Hunter’s Supermoon. For us, it’s stunning. For animals, it’s electric.
🔬 The science: dogs have an internal compass
Inside your dog’s eyes lives a remarkable light-sensitive protein called cryptochromes. This same molecule is what scientists believe allows migratory birds to fly thousands of miles, sea turtles to return to the exact beach where they hatched, and salmon to navigate back to their spawning rivers, all by feeling Earth’s magnetic field.
When moonlight hits cryptochrome, a quantum process known as the Radical Pair Mechanism begins. Light excites pairs of electrons in the protein, making them sensitive to the direction and strength of Earth’s magnetic field. Your dog isn’t “seeing” magnetism like a color, but they may feel it as an orientation sense that helps them know where they are in space.
During a supermoon, the extra-bright light and the moon’s stronger gravitational pull subtly affect the Earth’s magnetic environment. To us, those changes are imperceptible. To a creature wired to read the planet’s field , a dog, a wolf, a migrating bird — it’s like background noise turning into a low rumble.
🧠 Why your dog might act different tonight
That restless pacing? Their inner compass recalibrating.
That sudden howling? A primal response to a sky that feels “different.”
Even sleep can be disrupted when natural light levels spike , wolves and wild canids have long adapted hunting behavior to lunar brightness.
Other animals show this too:
• Migratory birds change flight altitudes and orientation during supermoon turtles rely on moonlight cues to find the ocean — brighter nights alter their paths.
• Deer and wild canids become more active when nights are unusually bright.
🐾 What to do tonight
If your dog seems extra alert, vocal, or restless under the moon, don’t scold , it’s not bad behavior. It’s biology. Offer calm reassurance, safe exploration, and mental play before dark (sniff work, slow leash walks, puzzle feeders).
👇 Share what you’re seeing. Where are you in the world, and how is your dog reacting to this supermoon? Pictures, videos, stories — let’s watch how our companions experience this night.
Bart de Gols
