msinc
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Originally posted by shadinc
The next time my dog howls, I'm going to the emergency room to get checked out.
I was just thinking the same thing...but with my luck I wont make it there.
I have two males and a female in my kennel and none of them howl or ever have howled. The two males are very quiet in the kennel and never bark unless of course they see me heading that way with boots and a light on. The female does bark sometimes, but she never howls.
We have two worthless little house dogs that make a 20 minute event out of the firetruck passing by, yet the coon dogs still wont join in. It's funny, they just kind of stand there and stare at the little dogs like they can't figure out why.
I had a Plott that would howl in the middle of the night and like others have posted, he would start out real low...unless you were awake and really listening at the time you wouldn't hear him. He would pick it up in volume some but really wouldn't do it very loud and definitely not as loud as he could have. I used to think he was just lonely back then. He was the only dog I had at the time. He wouldn't do it for long and would stop right away if I yelled to him. He would only do it maybe once a month if that.
I have noticed that some dogs do something similar to howling. What I was told is "talking" to other dogs in the area at night sometimes. They will throw a few barks and wait for an "answer" from some dog off in the distance, then answer back. I have seen this go on for an hour or more. None of mine do this now, but I have had dogs that liked to do that. Again, they never did it all the time, just when the mood struck them. Many times when a dog is seemingly barking at nothing at night it is talking to another one that the human ear cannot detect. The male bluetick I have does this. The other two never do.
I had one once that gave a scared sort of howl bark when she heard thunder off in the distance. We called her the weather dog because she let us know if a storm was coming. She was scared to death of a lightning storm yet gunfire was never a problem.
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05-19-2015 08:36 PM
Our neighbors but one LOVED them and he was too far to be bothered, just said they sounded sad. Our would howl with the yotes. One neighbors used to have bassett hounds another a husky and a beagle and one rhodesian ridgebacks and now a Treeing Walker... we still get to hear howls! New people just assume it's the yotes. We wouldn't leave them out all day here though or we'd get complaints...Big time. We are a suburb of Boston after all...lol... 
