Lisa Englebrecht isn’t accustomed to her Labs yelping, whining and pawing so early in the morning, nor her red terrier jumping up and down on the bed like it was trampoline.

But Sandy, Champ and Jessie knew something their owner didn’t: The earth was shaking.

And the dogs weren’t about to take that sitting down.

“They were just going bananas – jumping up and down off the bed, running down the hall and all over,” said Englebrecht, who didn’t feel anything shaking other than the bed under her terrier’s constant leaping. “They had everybody in the house awake.”

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake that sent shock waves emanating from West Salem, Ill., apparently stirred interest in towns throughout the Midwest, including Lawrence and, in Englebrecht’s case, Eudora.

That Englebrecht’s four-legged friends were among those taking notice when the quake hit at 4:37 a.m. didn’t surprise Dr. Mark Marks, a Lawrence veterinarian.

While people may not notice movement in the earth, dogs often can both hear and feel it, he said.

“They live on the ground,” Marks said. “They’re going to feel it differently than we’re going to feel it.”

Eugene George sure didn’t notice, and he was awake at the time, preparing to milk more than 100 dairy cows about 5 miles south of Lawrence.

The cows didn’t seem to notice, either – going about their normal routine, giving up milk like nothing had changed.

“It didn’t faze them,” said George’s wife, Laura. “Usually animals are kind of in tune to this stuff.

“But,” she added, “he might have been too sleepy to notice.”