Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for October 06, 2024

or smells.

Or makes an unfamiliar noise.

So many literate doggies eh. They all go to doggie school eh.

sequel to “Wʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀs Tʜᴀᴛ?”

barking free

Arf! Bark! Woof! Yip! (What’s he doing here? That “Yip” guy. Get him outa here. Hey! Scram. We don’t do “Yip.” Beat it. Ya bother me…). Arf! Bark! Woof! Yipe!

What moves? Cars?

Vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, blender, anything motorized.

Well, I thought it moved!

“Wild Thing, I think you MOVE me”

especially during the night when everyone else is sleeping

Next: ‘Intruders without treats’

Motion picture.

Got a new dog, a heeler, she doesn’t bark much. But will when she hears someone’s footsteps, and can not see them. Even those of the deer outside at 2 in the morning.

Dogs barking incessantly is sound pollution. Leaf blowers, low-flying jets, and barking dogs.

Or barks back.

Like falling dominoes, one dog barks followed by others. The other dogs have no idea why first dog barked, but FOMO takes control.

We have one idiot driver who allows his dog to bark as he drives through town. Other dogs bark along the way and you can hear it a mile away. Emergency sirens set off dogs in the same way but they are necessary. No one needs “Paul Revere dogs”.

Love it! Thanks for a good laugh.

Was it a howling success?

or, in the case of my neighborhood, they just bark… because they can!

When my dog sees other dogs misbehave, she actually turns her back on them. She’s embarrassed for them, is my guess. She doesn’t like other dogs barking any more than humans do.

And stuff that doesn’t.