gets 'em Gretta..good girl...ce

good watch dogs. My blues will spit when they get excited barking over something, Theo just drools.

well okay I've never seen one..but i coulds...
what i really hates..is that darn back-firing mower next door..i be sleeping..and POW-POP sounds like they shooting at us..and i barks them quiet!every dawg dern time....MoJo

Years ago I went with a friend in her motorhome to some shows in AZ. We got in late evening, very dark, following their directions where to park.

Well, I slept in the back bed, opposite the dog crates. At the crack of dawn, I wake with the dogs carrying on, just as you described. Turned out we were in the back row on the end for the dog show motorhome parking, and the rest of the park had hot air balloons. The one they were starting up was probably less than 50 feet from where we were. The dogs went crazy..... What a way to wake up. Scared the dickens out of me, not knowing what that sound was.

I used to train at a dogtrainingclub in my region, and on beautifull summer evenings every now and again balloons passed by. They tend to cause a wave of panic over the trainingfield.,

On the other side, once we had exams on that same field, when on the other side every 20 min or so a helicopter landed and flew away. Not one dog was scared!

I think the fact that they don't hear the balloons coming and then the woosh of the burningsystem freaks them out! The noise of helicopter was heared all the time, so by the time they were at the part of the field for the exam, they were used to it.

i do remember a lot of dogs barking at us when i went hot-air ballooning... they seemed to freak out with the noises... good girls!

~cristina~

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