I have three dogs: Sullivan, a rather large, high-energy blur of motion, Chief, a persistent, destructive fatty of a beagle, and Gizmo, a Shih-tzu, who's just chillin' wherever the other two happen to be.
When dogs become aware of an unknown presence on their land, they go nuts. They bark, growl, leap at the door, jump on the furniture/people seated on furniture, located in front of the picture window, or in my case, all four, seemingly at the same time.
Two out of the three dogs here were bred to have a piercing bark. Two of them also equal my own body weight.
Now, when SOMEONE comes to visit, why do they take half an hour to get from the car to the front door, a distance of 20 feet tops? Is it because they (coughshe) know that the dogs are losing their shit in here, breaking our eardrums and our various body parts? For God's sake, Pauline, can you not hear the dogs in here while you're sitting in the car talking on the cell phone? Fuck, it's not so much the barking as it the fact that they jump all over the furniture trying to look out the window, and I'm generally sitting on that furniture.
I hope your son teaches you some manners, or that Sullivan mauls you someday, just enough to get the point across.
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My dog does the same, except he is a 20-some pound Pomeranian mix with the bark and the growl of that three headed thing in those harry potter movies.
Someone some much as step from the parking lot to the sidewalk 50 feet away and he starts attacking the door, and pees on the floor on accident, from excitement.
We have a swiffer on 24 hour duty sitting in the corner by the door, wet pads container and all.
Ah, we have that problem too. I'm quite surprised that your Shit Tzu is the mellow one (all, and I mean ALL shi tzus I have met have been neurotic little bastards who won't shut up).
I wish I could help. It must really be annoying. (both our dogs have very low barks).
@Conformist_Metaljunk - Yeah, I think I've heard him bark maybe five times since I brought him home last year. It's weird.
The same happens at my house...my dad (who is recovering from loosing two fingers) will be sitting on the couch and my close-to two hundred pound rottweiler will here something and jump on my dad using him as a watch post next to the window.
Then again my dog is a huge doofus. Big intimidating rottweiler who won't go out in the rain because he doesn't like getting his paws wet... My mother had to buy him a raincoat and booties which look ridiculous on a rottweiler.
God, my mom's dogs are the SAME way. Seriously, and they jump EVERYWHERE!!
I enjoyed your post below, seriously about stepping in dog shit. LOL!! That was great.
Lol! That makes me laugh cuz my dogs are the same whenever someone pulls into our driveway. Or EVEN the neighbors driveway! Lol.
The silliest thing is we moved into a house with a rickety fence with a rusty old forboding "BEWARE OF DOGS" sign on it so if it's a stranger they hesitate at the gate and I'll open the door and my little jack russel will run out and make them about crap themselves before they see he is ankle high. ;)
More and more I am glad our dogs are in the backyard. They can bark all they want. LOL
Just stopping by from your plug on the side of my screen. :)
Sorry to hear that you've been unable to stay pregnant. :( It sounds so insensitive, no matter how I word it... Boo to that. Anyway, really, it must be heartbreaking, and I'm sorry. I'm friends with a lot of women here on xanga who have had problems TTC, and have had multiple miscarriages. I just wanted to say hey so you don't think I'm some crazy ass stalker/wierdo.
my moms boston terrier does the same thing, and it drives me nuts. He's deaf too, so he not only barks but barks really loud b/c he can't hear himself. lol
Our three charge the door and make with the most annoying barks possible. (A competition in which, strangely enough, the dachshund takes the prize over the beagle.) When the door is actually open, the older two (dachshund and chihuahua; 14 & 13 years old) stand there, threatening to trip you if you do not stoop to pet them. The beagle bounds for where ever I'm sitting and plants her nose in my arm pit if possible or the backs of my knees if my arm pits are out of reach. Once the company in question has actually made it in the house several feet, she'd okay with them. Go figure.
I stopped by from the "plugz" section on the side of the screen, too.
Lol, all they need is love, and yep you should get him fixed, they live longer -