I have had my lovely rescue dog just over 3 weeks now and every day we walk and walk and walk through the woods and he trots happily along, sniffing and peeing on stuff and making half-hearted attempts to chase the odd squirrel and then peeing on some more stuff.
Today we are lost ambling along a new path when I spot some sort of stone marker, it looks a bit like a memorial or headstone with writing on it, so being the nosy sort I plod over to take a closer look. Ddog toddles off ahead of me, then suddenly stops and lets out this really weird low growl. He's on the long lead so I step past him and continue, but he continues to growl and will not go any further. I look around and can see nothing that would upset him. It is possible from this distance to tell that the marker is some sort of granite headstone with a man's name at the top, but he's obviously spooked so we give up and head back to the main path.
Is this normal dog behaviour? I couldn't tell if it was an actual burial site or just a memorial, although from what I did catch of the wording it seemed to be the former. I did take a photo from the main path, but it's too blurry to read. A little further along we reached a campsite, so the land, despite being part of a larger forested area, is possibly privately owned. Without wanting to be too macabre, is it possible he could smell the human remains and was spooked by them?