About bases, perry mostly.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:13 am

by the way, i think that this thread exemplifies why we work so well ^-^

seriously guys, THANKS. For a lot.

Wisq · Post by **Wisq** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:13 pm

Well, I have a 15-year-old senile Siamese, so you can imagine why I go out of my way to learn about cat meows. Particularly how to make them stop... but I gave up on that years ago.

(Siamese are known for their meows, which as Wikipedia states, is "loud enough to compete with fire and rescue equipment". I can confirm that.

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Dogs can be trained to suppress their barking if one behaves like a mother dog, apparently. I believe it was a hand on top of the nose and a very low noise, like a short growl. When using a recognisable word like "quiet", you can train them to properly associate the word with the need for silence, and then it's smooth sailing, even for loud "alert" dogs like Shelties.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:24 pm

cool, i gotta try that!

/likes large dogs

Post by **klauss** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:27 pm

Can you make them stop howling that way? Please... my dog is a Siberian Husky, and he keeps howling all day, all night... it's unbearable.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:46 pm

how old is he?

is he fixed?

Post by **klauss** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:01 pm

He's not very old... I don't remember accurately, around 4 or 5yo.
And no.

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:04 am

klauss wrote:He's not very old... I don't remember accurately, around 4 or 5yo.
And no.

Are we talking about all the time, or only at night?

Dogs are pack animals and howl for a variety of reasons, so the experts say, my experience with household dogs shows it usually means, I'm lonely. I show up the howling stops. Tinker-Dog is a tiny mutt, at about 11 pounds. When he's outside or all alone he'll "howl for the pack." Even today, at 15-Plus years.

I imagine your dog wants to be with the "rest of his pack." They don't "grow out of it." THey don't learn that you aren't going to come. THey want a pack to be with.

W.

Post by **klauss** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:51 pm

He does howl incessantly when someone leaves. But it's not what I meant. Sometimes, he howls for no reason. I think it's a race trait: they howl a lot. Kind of like wolves. No wonder why they always use them to play wolves in movies

Or... perhaps he misses someone from the outside. He's a little odd (some would say stupid - me included): he doesn't know how to jump the fence, which is like half his height (and I'm talking when he's on all fours). It's as if he had fear of heights, almost: no climbing up stairs, no jumping. The one time we made him go up an elevator, he became so frightened that we had to take him down (in the elevator) in our arms (our - a little big for one of us alone - a whole experience).

So, perhaps if he sees someone he knows, since he can't jump over, he feels as if he had been abandoned and starts howling. But whatever the reason is, it gets damned annoying.