Why do people think it's okay to let their dog shout at people who walk by?

[Anonymous]

You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog is 7.5 pounds and the definition of all bark no bite. Even if she could get through the door, she is doing nothing, but part of her entertainment is people watching at the front door. Since she is in my house and on my property and you aren't and shouldn't be, I don't care how you feel about her barking OP.

Just curious pp if barking at strangers meant that your dog was stresses. Would that change your opinion?

no it wouldn’t, pp doesn’t care about their dog, just that the dog requires no effort from them lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog is 7.5 pounds and the definition of all bark no bite. Even if she could get through the door, she is doing nothing, but part of her entertainment is people watching at the front door. Since she is in my house and on my property and you aren't and shouldn't be, I don't care how you feel about her barking OP.

Just curious pp if barking at strangers meant that your dog was stresses. Would that change your opinion?

Many dogs are bred to bark. If PP has a chihuahua, which is likely, that breed is developed to be a guardian dog. Not an attack dog, but an alerting dog. It isn’t necessarily stressed at all. I had one and he would always bark a couple of times if someone pulled up to the house, then snooze off again on the couch.

My beagle is bred to be a hunting dog. She barks at squirrels, never people. She isn’t stressed—she LOVES hunting and wants to go chase them, is letting me know there is something to hunt. Excited, not stressed.

Agree with this! But, this is totally different than dogs who neurotically/excessively bark indoors, freaking out because someone walks on the sidewalk in front of their house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

I trained them to bark. Read the thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog is 7.5 pounds and the definition of all bark no bite. Even if she could get through the door, she is doing nothing, but part of her entertainment is people watching at the front door. Since she is in my house and on my property and you aren't and shouldn't be, I don't care how you feel about her barking OP.

Just curious pp if barking at strangers meant that your dog was stresses. Would that change your opinion?

Depends on the dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

I trained them to bark. Read the thread.

My reply wasn’t about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

Can't train a dog not to bark. Can only distract him and treat them for stopping and it's hit or miss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

Can't train a dog not to bark. Can only distract him and treat them for stopping and it's hit or miss.

Yes you can

[Anonymous]

Just when you thought it was safe to come back to DCUM, someone revives the shouting dog thread...

[Anonymous]

I mean, is it really bad that a dog would look out a window or door and bark at a stranger or other animals? They are dogs, right?? Why try to train away their guarding instinct / curiosity / form of communication?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, is it really bad that a dog would look out a window or door and bark at a stranger or other animals? They are dogs, right?? Why try to train away their guarding instinct / curiosity / form of communication?

because people are crazy and have to complain about something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't allow my children to sit at the front windows/door of my home screaming threats and cursing at ever person who walks by...

Why do people think it's okay for their dogs to do this?

I'm a dog lover. I have a 2-year-old, high-energy dog, who would love to bark at every person/dog/squirrel/mailman. But I don't allow him because it's rude and he is not allowed to threaten people.

Yet, it never ceases to amaze me on a walk through our neighborhood how many dogs are aggressively barking at us as we pass - low-pitched, rapid barking, often jumping up on the windows/doors. They bark at me, my kids, my dog...

I feel especially annoyed at people who allow their dogs to do this to the mail carriers. Mail carriers do a really hard job anyway, they shouldn't have to feel terrified because your dog attacks the door when they drop off your Amazon package. One time, I saw a UPS driver leap down a neighbor's front steps, sprinting away from a house with an aggressive-sounding dog lunging at the glass door and barking.

Not to mention the people who just leave their aggressive barking dogs out alone in the yard to surprise terrorize anyone who walks by... You think your just walking by another fence and then cujo is suddenly right next to you!

I can't imagine why their owners think this is okay and they don't train their dog? Maybe just that they don't realize what their dogs are "saying"? Do they realize and they just don't care?

OP- How dare you walk in FRONT of MY house???. That's my property.

Move to the other side of the street...'cause damn right I'll bark at your a$$, your annoying kids and your hyper dog!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You all are some lazy dog owners. Train your dogs people. It’s not rocket science 🙄

I trained them to bark. Read the thread.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, is it really bad that a dog would look out a window or door and bark at a stranger or other animals? They are dogs, right?? Why try to train away their guarding instinct / curiosity / form of communication?

because people are crazy and have to complain about something.

+1

Understatement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep this is so annoying. I don’t get how people live with these dogs. If it is that loud I can hear it clearly outside imagine how it sounds in the house?

Wait...you are carrying on about a dog barking inside a house? Time to find something else to do.