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This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing #14337625 12/04/19
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,784 Likes: 22 USA T The_Real_Hawkeye OP Campfire Sage
OP The_Real_Hawkeye Campfire Sage T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 131,784 Likes: 22 USA	Our Germans Shepherds, when I was a kid, always did this when they heard a siren. First time it happened, in the middle of the night, it scared the heck out of me. I was sure it was a ghost. PS They say German Shepherds have just a smidgen of wolf in their makeup, from early in their breed history.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337707 12/04/19
Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 420 Upstate SC Tstorm1 Campfire Member
Tstorm1 Campfire Member Joined: Mar 2019 Posts: 420 Upstate SC	My wife and I rescued a German Shepherd years ago, then watched some show about wolves. Never realized they would howl until she threw her head up and went to it. Years later she's taught the retriever/lab/setter mutt to howl.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337722 12/04/19
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 13,547 Minnesota JOG Campfire Outfitter
JOG Campfire Outfitter Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 13,547 Minnesota	My German Shorthair howls at kitchen timers, sirens, smoke alarms, telephones... Maybe it's a German thing. Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Robert Frost

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337726 12/04/19
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montanabadger Campfire Tracker M Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 4,057 Eastern Montana	No it's not just a German shepherd thing, we once had a cockapoo that did that very thing. "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes."

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337736 12/04/19
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Oldman03 Campfire Ranger Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 15,885 Likes: 1 N. La.	Trains, coyotes, other dogs, sirens, seen all sort of dogs howl at all of these. From chihuahua to great pyrenees. Old Turd- Deplorable- Unrepentant Murderer- Domestic Violent Extremist Just "Campfire Riffraff and Trash" This will be my last post! Flave 1/3/21

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Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337737 12/04/19
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,674 Likes: 21 Not In The City rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna
rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,674 Likes: 21 Not In The City	My Schnauzers do too. Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337757 12/04/19
Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 17,064 Likes: 12 N. California Morewood Campfire Ranger
Morewood Campfire Ranger Joined: Nov 2018 Posts: 17,064 Likes: 12 N. California	My neighbor's german shepard howls at trains blowing their horn at the intersection down the road. Every time.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337766 12/04/19
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 5,493 Delta Junction, Alaska VernAK Campfire Tracker
VernAK Campfire Tracker Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 5,493 Delta Junction, Alaska	My drunk neighbor howls also........and he's not a German.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337780 12/04/19
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,238 Yakima WA Kenlguy Campfire Tracker
Kenlguy Campfire Tracker Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 5,238 Yakima WA	You should hear about twenty five dogs in the kennel when the ambulance or fire truck goes by. And not a German Shepherd in the bunch. I could wish a lot of things on my worst enemy but neuropathy ain't one of them.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337787 12/04/19
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 38,907 Likes: 8 South of Minnesota 5sdad Campfire 'Bwana
5sdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 38,907 Likes: 8 South of Minnesota	Every time that it thundered when my uncle's German Shepard was outside, a new screen door was required. Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile. Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe) Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.

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Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337825 12/04/19
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 8,069 Kansas skeen Campfire Outfitter
skeen Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 8,069 Kansas	The doorbell sets mine off, every time.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337828 12/04/19
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PHWILLIE Campfire Regular Joined: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,614 Oklahoma	I have a pug that can howl with the best of them

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing rockinbbar #14337833 12/04/19
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 3,641 South of I-10 B Borchardt Campfire Tracker
Borchardt Campfire Tracker B Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 3,641 South of I-10	Originally Posted by rockinbbar My Schnauzers do too. Ditto! Imagine a corporate oligarchy so effective, so advanced and fine tuned that its citizens still call it a democracy.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337878 12/04/19
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Hotrod_Lincoln Campfire Outfitter H Joined: Jun 2019 Posts: 9,975 Likes: 8	The Atlanta PD has retired all their German Shepherd canines and trained a bunch of Bluetick coon hounds in their place- - - - - - -they finally figured out it wasn't the Germans who were causing all the trouble! Jerry Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337907 12/04/19
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Wannabebwana Campfire Tracker W Joined: Apr 2019 Posts: 4,855 Likes: 6 Ontario, Canada	Ex in-laws had a chihuahua that would set to howling when we said “Sing, Coco, sing!”

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337920 12/04/19
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jnyork Campfire Ranger Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 15,289 Wyoming and Arizona	All 4 of our last dogs, little guys all, were set off by UPS vans. If the UPS van turned onto our street 2 blocks away they would run to the front door and bark furiously until he went on down the street. FedEx trucks, mail vans, garbage trucks etc they would sleep right through. Last edited by jnyork; 12/04/19.

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337945 12/04/19
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 9,533 Likes: 2 Vic_in_Va Campfire Outfitter
Vic_in_Va Campfire Outfitter Joined: May 2002 Posts: 9,533 Likes: 2	I know a Springer Spaniel will howl at sirens...

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14337974 12/04/19
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hanco Campfire Savant Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 151,808 Likes: 19 Texas	English pointers howled at trains and sirens too!

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14338048 12/04/19
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 8,092 Adirondack Mountains N nyrifleman Campfire Outfitter
nyrifleman Campfire Outfitter N Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 8,092 Adirondack Mountains	Have had 3 GSD. None of them did that. “Factio democratica delenda est"

Re: This Must Be a German Shepherd Thing The_Real_Hawkeye #14338075 12/04/19
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DaddyRat Campfire Regular D Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,500 Weaverville NC	I just played your video. It woke my GSD up and she started howling with the video. I have never heard her howl before. We live in the country so there are no real noises to get her to howl.

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