@ideas_fox91 September 3, 2026
♬ Hacia Hacia Atras - Aryanna Nader
४ सप्टेंबर, २०२६
"It's natural for dogs."
Take a side:
Based on my own reaction and the comments over there, we're all on Team "Karen."
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१४ टिप्पण्या:
Dogs are "crepuscular", meaning most active around sunset and dawn. Barking to connect with each other at those times is perfectly normal.
CONFINED dogs, and ignore dogs will bark far more often -- the more confine, and the more ignored, the more they will bark. Bark, BARK, fucking goddamned BARK !!!
Shitty owners. One of the great joys of my farming years was hearing my free-running pack of five deeply happy dogs -- because they could be DOGS -- howling with the coyotes, just singing "hello cousins !" to each other. When I lived in the Arctic it was the same with the wolves. A few times on the farm the dogs, coyotes, and a sweet den of red foxes all barked and sang with each other. Pure joy all around.
Dogs are not meant to live, confined, in cities and suburbs. We do not recognise it as cruelty, albeit mild, but that's what it is.
Back in the early 1950s, in a small coastal Connecticut town, most of the dogs ran free, and pretty much everyone knew the name of every dog in town. Occasional phone calls -- four digits only -- "Your dog was chasing my chickens, and he got a .410 off rock-salt in the ass. Doubt he'll try it again, but wanted to let you know.."
“It’s natural for dogs.”
And I thought this post would be about ball licking.
As if ultra-sonic bark eliminators had never been invented.
Cebu city says hello, maybe. Also hello to Oso Negro.
That neighbor could not be nicer.
Some dogs bark a lot. It’s natural for them. That doesn’t absolve the owners of the responsibility to be good neighbors. If you have a dog that barks a lot, you can’t leave it outside.
Bark collars are a thing.
take a side
slightly off topic
but in any Cobra vs Cat showdown
I'm betting on the cat
on the other hand
if it's Cat vs Cucumber
bet on the veggie
Shock bark collars work. Let the dog wear the collar for a couple of weeks turned off, so that he doesn't associate the shock with the collar. Otherwise he'll bark when he's not wearing it.
Collars are failsafed against justified barks (mailmen) and repeated shocking.
Try the shock out on yourself if it makes you feel better about it first.
Warning tone collars don't work as well. No startle effect.
I'd buy a peacock and a few geese. It's natural for them too.
Can I comment now? I think the principle of quiet enjoyment applies here.
We've had mostly outdoor dogs and they barked only if something came too close to the house. Our biggest dog (140 lb. half-Rottie) told us he wanted to live in the house with us. Okay then. He was one of our best dogs. If he barked in the middle of the night, that meant the cattle were out. He heard them from inside the house while we hadn't heard a thing. Any dog that barked in the middle of the night for no reason got yelled at. We have always lived at least a 1/4 mile from neighbors, so we were the ones bothered the most.
BTW, I'm with "Karen."
I live on a big spread of land precisely so my howling cattledogs don't bother my non-agricultural neighbors. Between the livestock guard dogs, coyotes, roosters, and cows and bulls needing date nights, it's surprisingly loud here. Only the goats, deer, and rabbits are mostly, weirdly, quiet. But the goats do have devil eyes.
I don't trust any of them.
Bart: my cattledogs long for work. Together, they tear down small trees and happily run with the heavy limbs between them. Coyotes taught them to howl, and some nights there are round-robins of howling from hill to farm dogs all around the holler. Their joy at this is infectious. I taught them to sing the chorus parts only of Bohemian Rhapsody. It took two days. They're way too smart. We tried the shock collars, and they conformed immediately but then mutually decided not to. I did try them on my wrist myself first -- it's unpleasant but not terrible. They need a sheep herd, something I just can't do. Where I live, this breed is bred to work, but these two brothers couldn't get papers because they were a night on the town for an escaped mom. So we let them clear the forest, one small tree at a time. It's good for the other trees. Nature is adaptable. Cattledogs and subdivisions are not. Many dog breeds need freedom.
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