My howling bordeaux

[moose]

I usually take moose for a 2 mile walk around this park I live by as much as I can. I park my car by the dog park, and sometimes when I am done with the walk I will sit outside the dog park and watch the other dogs. Lately there has been alot of fights between the other dogs in the park. Now today was one of those times. I had just got moose out of the car, when I hear the dogs fighting. Now this park has two areas one for small dogs and one for big dogs. This fight was between a little maltese looking pup and a small husky looking dog, they were both in the large dog area . It was scary the people literally picked the dogs up and tried pulling them apart, while the one lady was slapping the dog with her lease. There was probably 10 people and they could not separate the dogs. Now I am in the parking lot watching what's going on and all of a sudden moose starts full out howling, I swear he sounded like a husky! He has never howled like this before, I guess he was reacting to the other dog that was screaming but it was bizarre. Thankfully the dogs that were fighting did not hurt each other but it just reinforces not going into the dog park.

 

[Cody]

Wow, that sounds crazy! I would avoid parks like that like the plague!
I haven't seen anything really like that at a dog park here thankfully.
We are pretty lucky here that in some of the offleash areas you can walk and only come across people if you want to.
It would be interesting to see a DDB howl though, lol, our Boxer will sing on command, and our Corso will howl a little when my son plays his harmonica.
I wonder what it was that made him howl and not bark. Did the other dogs stop or react at all when he was howling? I am curious

 

[moose]

I have always heard about fights in that park but this last month i have seen so many in those few minuets it takes me to get moose out of the car and out on the trail. I usually go to the woods for his off leash play, so he can run all he wants. I have no clue where this howl came from, it was so weird but funny. When he really gets upset and is on guard he barks and then kinda bark howls, if that makes sense. This was a full on husky howl, it was so bizarre that it broke my attention from the dog fight and I was just staring at him, he did it twice too. I doubt the other dogs could hear him because all of the commotion going on inside the park, the one little dog was screaming, it was very high pitched. I am guess it was the high pitched screaming that made him , I really have no clue. He did draw attention from the people looking on from outside the park, they gave me some weird looks lol

 

[Dogue Lover]

Our Lucy bordeaux howls in her sleep. It has happened 4 times since we got her and all in the middle of the night. It wakes myself , hubby and muggs up but we don't even acknowledge it and neither does she. Nobody moves nor do we say anything. We just wait for her to stop then talk about it the next day. It's a wolf howl that last less than a minute with no movement at all. We found it shocking and strange. She hasn't done it in awhile now which is cool because to be woken up by that isn't cool.

Does Moose howl in his sleep?

 

[moose]

Actually now that I think about it there was once late at night when he let out that wolf howl in a dead sleep, I remember my boyfriend and I looked at each other like "what was that'', I remember it lasting awhile too and he was out, never woke up after that. So i guess he has howled once before today. Its just so odd lol!

 

[Cody]

I know the bark howl, wowowowooooooo is my best explication . Aurora does that on guard as well.
That sounds sketchy, the whole dog fights in the park. Why are people bringing their dogs into that situation if they know or even suspect they will be involved in a fight. It is beyond me. I rarely do dog parks unless with friends and we tend to clear a path so works well. Our dogs are all very well behaved and under control, but others are intimidated by a group of Corso and honestly I prefer that way. People have no idea how to read their dogs for the most part.
The high pitch would probably do it. I am sure you did get some looks. I know I would double take to see a DDB doing a husky howl.

 

[moose]

I know the bark howl, wowowowooooooo is my best explication . Aurora does that on guard as well.
That sounds sketchy, the whole dog fights in the park. Why are people bringing their dogs into that situation if they know or even suspect they will be involved in a fight. It is beyond me. I rarely do dog parks unless with friends and we tend to clear a path so works well. Our dogs are all very well behaved and under control, but others are intimidated by a group of Corso and honestly I prefer that way. People have no idea how to read their dogs for the most part.
The high pitch would probably do it. I am sure you did get some looks. I know I would double take to see a DDB doing a husky howl.

lol thats exactly the sound though!!
This park is very sketchy, it usually has a lot of people that are just there for social hour, there were so many people next to the dogs when it happened but they did not see it coming! Plus my question was why was that little dog in the large dog park anyway?! The last fight I saw was I think last weekend between a pit mix and a doberman, I have talked to the owner of the pit mix before and I know that the dog doesnt necessarily start the fight but gives off some strong signals, along the lines of standing next to a dog giving it a sideways glare and just growls until the dog summits, of course some dont. She then says "Everytime I come something happens, I dont understand why they want to fight my dog." How many times does it need to happen before you stop going?!? It really blows my mind, and people wonder why I am the mean owner that doesnt let her dog play with the other dogs at the dog park...

 

[Ripsmom]

I agree with what said above..most people don't have a clue as to what they're looking at with regard to their dog's body language and to be perfectly honest I don't think that a dog park is a good idea for most dogs... to many stupid people with the wrong dogs for that arena. We have one in our town and constantly have issues with fights.... of course we also have a lot of stupid people who put their tiny dogs in with the big ones

 

[moose]

I was youtubing mastiff howling and this made me laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bu37MaNrQk

 

[Cody]

LMAO! Love it!
Our Boxer sings on command, well...most of the time, and he sings to certain phone ring tones. I am trying to train Aurora to do it, but mainly she just bites Joe while he sings

 

[Alex James]

Sometimes dogs will howl when they hear sirens or other loud higher pitched sounds like clarinets and flutes.

 

[moose]

So I was walking/ jogging with moose today around the same area that I was in the original post, and I pass this young couple with a kid and their friends, when I pass them I overhear them say that there dog was 4x the size of moose and mean .
I was hoping they were talking about an EM, granted moose is a lean ddb and he is only 15 months but i wouldn't consider him small. anyway I take the fact that they didn't think he was mean as a compliment, moose has always been suspicious of strangers. The first memory I have of him at 8 weeks was sitting in my lap and my mom coming over and him barking at her. He never liked when strangers pet him, and ignores anyone who's not in his family. So I think that I have socialized him enough where I can walk him down a trail and he ignores the other people while listening to me is big.

Of course at the end of the walk someone let their german shepherd out of the off leash park and it came over to moose, the owner goes he is beautiful but he is scary :dunno::sad0071:

 

[Bentley]

Ben will howl in his sleep occasionally, a full throated call kind of sound but it always wakes him up and leads to huge reasurance fuss as it seems to totally confuse him.