BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK!

[Wifezilla]

I'll just blame the wild scaled quail. They are LOOUUDDDD!!!

 

[keljonma]

It's my dogs' job to deter and protect. One of the tools they use for that is barking. When I hear it, I know they are doing their job.

But I still feel for those of you it bothers.

As owners of a Great Pyr for 12 years, we always got up to see why Titan was barking. There could have been chicken predators about. Or humans where they shouldn't have been. And let me tell you, Great Pyrs bark for a hobby, so this meant getting up multiple times some nights.


IMO, if someone lets their dogs bark CONSISTANTLY all night long, all that tells anyone is that the owners are not home or have learned to ignore the warning signal the dogs are sending. So what good is that?! I'm just saying....

 

[Wifezilla]

EXACTLY!!!

Plus there is a big difference between a guardian dog on patrol in farm country and the burbs with houses only a few feet apart!

The previous owner of that house used to do the same thing. She had 2 dogs for "protection", but she never had the dogs anywhere near her. As she peacefully slept in the bedroom near the FRONT of the house, the dogs barked their heads off out of loneliness in the BACK of the house about 25 feet away from my BACK OF THE HOUSE bedroom.

 

[keljonma]

I feel for you WZ! I would be so tempted to record the barking and play it back at her bedroom window!

 

[Buster]

It's my dogs' job to deter and protect. One of the tools they use for that is barking. When I hear it, I know they are doing their job.

But I still feel for those of you it bothers.

As owners of a Great Pyr for 12 years, we always got up to see why Titan was barking. There could have been chicken predators about. Or humans where they shouldn't have been. And let me tell you, Great Pyrs bark for a hobby, so this meant getting up multiple times some nights.


IMO, if someone lets their dogs bark CONSISTANTLY all night long, all that tells anyone is that the owners are not home or have learned to ignore the warning signal the dogs are sending. So what good is that?! I'm just saying....

I have four Pyrs. There is no need to check for predators. They either go away and stay away or they die.

I do think if we lived in town it would be different, or if these weren't working dogs. But country neighbors who complain about an LGD doing his job is like them complaining about my roosters or my chicken processing in my back yard.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

my chicken processing in my back yard.

*thinks about someone i know who used to process his birds from his kid's swingset in town, neighbors were horrified*

 

[keljonma]

It's my dogs' job to deter and protect. One of the tools they use for that is barking. When I hear it, I know they are doing their job.

But I still feel for those of you it bothers.

As owners of a Great Pyr for 12 years, we always got up to see why Titan was barking. There could have been chicken predators about. Or humans where they shouldn't have been. And let me tell you, Great Pyrs bark for a hobby, so this meant getting up multiple times some nights.


IMO, if someone lets their dogs bark CONSISTANTLY all night long, all that tells anyone is that the owners are not home or have learned to ignore the warning signal the dogs are sending. So what good is that?! I'm just saying....

I have four Pyrs. There is no need to check for predators. They either go away and stay away or they die.

I do think if we lived in town it would be different, or if these weren't working dogs. But country neighbors who complain about an LGD doing his job is like them complaining about my roosters or my chicken processing in my back yard.

The difference being you have 4 pyrs and we had 1. One dog, no matter how good a guardian he is, can protect you against a group of gun-carrying twits trying to gain access to your property. When we went out there, it evened the odds.

 

[FarmerChick]

oh nuisnance dog barking vs. guard dog alerts are way different.
that nuisance dog just barks and barks and barks in ONE spot LOL
drive anyone insane, it does me lol

 

[Wifezilla]

*thinks about someone i know who used to process his birds from his kid's swingset in town, neighbors were horrified*

I am pretty sure if it weren't for our 6' tall cedar fence there would be a lot of horrified people in my neighborhood

 

[Buster]

This is Oklahoma. Everybody in the country owns their own personal arsenal. There are much easier targets for the twits, gun carrying or otherwise.

I don't much worry about it.