B-Q Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 From our house you can occasionally hear what sounds like a lot of medium-large breed dogs indoors a couple of km's from our house. Its really weird, we hear it probably atleast once a day, all this distant barking/howling sounds that will go for usually less than a minute than stops abruptly. We've lived here for 18 months and its been going on the entire time. Buster and Mac ignore it but it sets Quinn off barking everytime. We can't think for the life of us what is is, there are no boarding kennels around and and it doesn't sound like a lot of little dogs so we're thinking its not a mill, greyhounds maybe? But there isn't a track around here. We google mapped the area and can't see anything we think is odd. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Anne~ Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Possibly Greyhounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesP Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Bird scarer? There used to be one near me that sort of sounded like pigs squealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytmate Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 There is at least one greyhound trainer in Palmwoods, and a couple of others on the hinterland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisovar Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Why is it weird, it may be greyhounds, it may be show dogs? It could be several privately owned dogs. Some dogs bark and/or howl at feed time, when their owners leave or arrive home, is it a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Q Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Its not a problem, we've just always been really curious as to what it was. Because they always sound like they're in a shed, we guessed greyhounds but didn't know if it would be because there arn't any hreyhound tracks around here as far as I know, no reason they couldn't travel with them thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrubber Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 When I lived in a kennel zone we got similar 'chorus' behaviour from four neighboring greyhound breeders. The Rotti's next door also sang in chorus from time to time. As you describe, more howling than barking, several dogs together, not annoying .. . doesn't last long . . . not clear what sets it off. I don't remember ever hearing a chorus from any of the boarding kennels. I think it only happens with dogs who have been together for months to years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkehre Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 If the sound is coming from a distance away, it is even likely that it is pets from different households responding to sirens. Perhaps you may not have heard the sirens but the dogs may have. This occurs from time to time in most neighbourhoods including ours, and the barking/howling can stop suddenly. Some dogs react to sirens and other dogs howling, others do not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Q Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Theres not a lot of dense population out the way its coming from, its mostly smallish farm blocks (10-15 acres) as far as I know. It does make sense it could a greys though if there are trainers around here, wish Quinn would get used to it though and at the same time learn that dogs on youtube arn't really in the house and car horns on TV arn't cars at the gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulesP Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Mine howl when the local CFA sirens go off. I can barely hear the sirens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenau1 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 When I was staying with my OH in the USA when I first met him, I would be sitting around the house at night while he was at work and hear this eerie sound, like slightly discordant notes from a rusty orchestra. I couldn't figure out what on earth it was as we were in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods. Turns out the people in the next property raise gray wolves and what I could hear was about 30 of them all howling together. If it had been one or two I would have been able to identify it, but so many sounded so different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniek Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 it is possibly greyhounds rooing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Q Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Yep, sounds just like that, only muffled by distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boronia Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 perhaps it is dingos/wild dogs... they are around Chevallum (see page 40 of this DPI report) http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/documents/Biosec...og-Report-4.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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