GracieLu
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My dogs bark at other dogs (i figure that's the only way they can communicate with each other from a distance). They bark when someone is near the house, but if someone is approaching the house the bark changes from a regular bark to shrill barks, a definite difference and a much higher level of excitement.
Just yesterday my beagle and bagle (bassett/beagle) watched as our maintenance guy returned our garbage can to our patio. They went nuts, jumping at the door and barking - sounded vicious. When he left, I let them outside. They ran right up to the gate, still going nuts and sounding vicious, and pushed the gate open because he didn't shut it properly! omgosh, I ran out the door in my jammi's (was so mad, lol), thinking they were going to attack him, but instead they ran right to his feet, rolled over, and "demanded" tummy rubs. I laughed about it, but later thought "oh no, I don't want the maintenance man to know they aren't vicious!"
The really sad thing for me is that my dogs always bark at night and hubby and I always tell them to be quiet, from our beds, because it's always an animal by our garbage can, or so we think! Wondering now ---- loud barking vicious barking, stranger getting in, and vicious dogs demanding tummy rubs! Checked my doors 3 times last night, checked on little one several times, and NEVER again will I tell my dogs to be quiet - from now on I am getting my butt out of bed to see what they are barking at! What a sad scary world we live in!