BARKOLOGY-The Science Of The Dog Bark!

Ok, I know that barkology isn't a real science, but it should be.  I mean have you ever wanted to know just what your dogs are barking about?  I have four dogs.  One I originally got from the pound and three others I inherited from my daughter and son-in-law. 

The grand dame of the dog pack is Jade.  Jade is a 11 year old Burmese Mountain / Rottweiler cross.  She is gorgeous, black and white with lovely soulful brown eyes.  She is one of the original, meaning that I got her, from the pound, when she was just a  pup. Buddy is the only boy in the group and has become my husband's dog. Buddy is a full blood Beagle, and he is just full of piss and vinegar. Being a true Beagle, he is a scent hound.  I think he would follow a smell to Timbuktu and he still wouldn't stop until he was exhausted.  Next on our list is Luna.  Luna's full name is Luna-tic.  My husband named her that because, well she is a lunatic, no pun intended.  Luna is just a year old and is a Cocker Spaniel/blue healer cross.  Long legged, wiry and "Boy Howdy" can that dog run.  She will chase anything that moves including rabbits, crickets, balls, grasshoppers and laser lights.  ( Hence the name Luna-tic)  Smokey came to our happy pack because her owner was going to put her down, and my son-in-law, being the dog lover he is couldn't let that happen.  She is a Corgi cross and we don't even know how old she is.  I would guess she is around 5 or 6 years old.  This dog is starved for attention and is so very loving.  Why anyone would want to get rid of her is a mystery.

Oops I forgot the fifth dog of the pack, Peggy.  Peggy is my father-in -laws dog.  She is a hyper, yappy Boston Terrier.  Don't get me wrong she is a very loving dog, but when she gets excited......Yap-yap-yap....she never stops.  When Harold goes out of town to deliver a car for his job, I get to babysit little Miss Peggy.

Now that you have a background on the pack of dogs I have at my house, just imagine what happens if -
1. A stranger, friend or ghost comes to the door.
2. Lord forbid a strange person, dog on a leash or a ghost walks by on their sidewalk.  Or
3. A squirrel, Robin or cat just happens to come into their line of vision.

Oh My Gosh!!!!  You have never heard such a racket......You think the world was coming to an end.  Thus, I would love to know just what the Heck they are barking about.  I remember seeing a Dexter cartoon where he finds a dog and invents a pill that will enable the dog to speak English.  "It's a thing, it's a thing, I don't know what it is but it's a thing"  I can see my dogs saying that.  I also watched the movie "UP. " The dogs in it wore collars that enabled them to talk.  Boy, did that movie hit the nail on the head about how dogs must think.   "My master made this collar for me so that I could speak....SQUIRREL......Hi there."  Man my dogs could have been in that movie.  It is just like them. 

We are kinda mean to the dogs.  Just for fun, when it is totally quiet in the backyard, one of us will blurt out - "SQUIRREL."  It is hilarious, all the dogs fly to the fence, barking like idiots and they don't have any idea what they are barking at. 

But just maybe I don't want to know what my dogs are saying.  I don't want to know what another dogs butts smell like,  I don't want to know that dead meat smells the best and I don't want to know what they really think about me. In this case ignorance is bliss. I am perfectly happy dishing out lots of pets and praise which makes all of us happy.

 So hug your pets, and be thankful you have them.  Until next time, have fun, make love and read a book.