Much has been written in the forum lately about barking dogs as if it is something uniquely Spanish.
Well....
Sorry guys, but dogs bark period.
Brit, Spanish, Chinese or Eskimo, its one of the things they are incredibly good at, like peeing, pooing, eating, drinking and multiplying.
Yes, its down to the owners to control these actions BUT... when it comes to barking, unless you have a guard dog from a Military Service or the Police specifically trained to be quiet, it will bark and even a service dog will bark when its off duty.
Humans talk or shout, dogs bark... The higher up the Canine evolutionary tree they are the more inclined they are to bark... or howl.
Dogs will tell the world if they are happy'.
Dogs will tell the world if they are p*ssed off. they do so in the only way they can.
They cant go on the internet and bitch or cheer about things so they do it their way. They bark...
As for the GC officer...I'll repeat something from a previous blog entry...
Going back to the GC Officer who murdered a sleeping dog, the guy should be taken unarmed to the nearest bull-ring and made to face 650kgms of charging bull. This would provide a hithertoo unseen level of entertainment for the blood-thirsty punters and at least ensure that one bull came out alive at the end of the day.
In our village there are now almost as many dogs as there are people. Barking is a way of life, part of the background noise. Many of these dogs are abandonado's; we have our two original hounds and five such live-in waifs and strays.
Me? To them, I'm the best thing since sliced meat loaf... if I venture out of the house, its choir practice time, led by the Queen Bitch Greyhound and vocal accompaniment from the rest. No amount of soothing will quieten them. If I have to take one to the vets the others provide a vocal seeing-off concert. The greeting I / we get on our return is enthusiastic and vocal.
At the moment my wife is laid up recuperating from an op described elsewhere in this blog so the dogs are totally reliant on me for walks, food, drink and everything else. There are times when its absolute bedlam in the house, particularly with four males jockeying for position in the order of ascendency. Most of the time we just put up with it but just occasionally they may learn a few unfamiliar words... but what the hell, they don't understand them anyway. Being males, they have only one brain cell which they share between themselves and at the moment I think they have mislaid it somewhere...
But Barking?....LIVE WITH IT!
