Howling Dogs?? UPDATE:A HOWLER IS BORN!

[lovey1121]

Do your dogs howl?

Many moons ago, I had 3 dogs who howled (regulary–every morning at around 10 AM, my then-pack of 3 would start a group howl, according to my elderly neighbor:eek:)

Since then, my howling boys have passed. :((2 GSDs, 1 Labber)

And though I’ve tried to incite howlng MANY TIMES,…not a peep. There is interest…but NO HOWL…

Do you have a dog who howls?

Breed?

Can you incite him (my go-to was an old harmonica)?

Geez, I miss the howling…next to hound song, its my favorite dog music.

UPDATE: Happy days are here again:D! My 8 mo.old JRT, Birdy, howled her little tushy off tonight! DH and I were avidly watching the Va Tech-UVA game (go Hokies:cool:), and when we scored, I began , em, yodeling(?) my happiness. The Bird lept into my lap, began furiously whining and licking my nostrils, and then broke into a most harmonious little howl. We scored 4 more times…yeah… 4 lovely howls from my baby girl! Then I sang to her in the kitchen to see if she would howl in a different area/different circumstances. OH, YES MA’AM!!!

I am so happy to have a howler again! And one who howls on command??? I’m over the moon:) Now I’ve gotta find that harmonica…

[MunchingonHay]

when I was a teenager we had a boxer pup that wanted to be a barker, we did not want a barking dog, so when he would bark we would say, “no bark bark, HOOWWLLL!” and we would howl. that dog picked up the howling thing right away. it was so flipping cute, he would hear some one knock and he would throw his head back with those floppy boxer (uncut) ears and howl. He would then look at our older boxer who was barking and give him the stink eye.

he was a very smart puppy

[apcohrs]

Our local coyotes howl every time the emergency sirens go off, whether for a fire, or for the 10am 1st Tuesday of the month drill.

[supaflyskye]

My old Shepherd cross was a howler. Separation anxiety was what most often incited his howling, but aside from that …there are these things you can get from carnivals, etc, they look a bit like huge bendy straw. You hold them in your hand and spin them around in a circle, and they make a loud, high pitched “whoo-ooo-ooo” kind of noise. EDIT: these! That always got my Shepherd howling, and quite often even inspired my parents’ Cocker Spaniel to chime in. The vuvuzula horns work well too, but not as well as those spinny tube noise makers.
The Cocker Spaniel howls, but rarely it seems, in response to anything. She’ll just let out a single long howl every now and again - but those spinner things tend to get her going.

My current puppy does not really howl. I heard her howl once, at the dog park in the midst of some loudly barking dogs that we’re playing around her. She let out a very loud howl and rather surprised me; and the other dogs as well!

[lovey1121]

[QUOTE=supaflyskye;5912742]
My old Shepherd cross was a howler…there are these things you can get from carnivals, etc, they look a bit like huge bendy straw. well![/QUOTE]
I want one of these huge bendy straws! Current menagerie-2 labs, 2 Jacks, 1 Berner plus kitteh watched a whole howling doc on wolves w/volume sent on High…nerp… not a peep. Interest, yes, but not a peeep.

[SaveTheOtters]

Our 3yr old GSD/husky(malamute)(??) mix howls as a replacement for barking. He only barks when he gets really really frustrated, and even when he barks it sound not quite right, like no one ever taught him how.
He howls when he wants out of his crate in the morning, when he wants to go out, when he wants to come in, when he wants you to play with him, when someones at the door.
The only problem is that when he realizes that the howling won’t work he starts screaming. Now THAT is a sound to hear.

Ironic thing is that even with a golden, a JRT, and an airedale as competition he is by far the most vocal dog we have ever had, even though he didn’t make a peep the first month we had him home from the pound.
Go figure, its a good thing he’s cute.

[KitKat987]

I have two border collies. Mother and daughter, 15 and 8. They love to HOWL. It’s hilarious, cracks us up every time. I’ll sometimes put them on the back deck when work-related people stop by for a few minutes, and the dogs sit at the door, noses to the sky and howl their little brains out. I’m always apologizing for the loud coyotes around here. They can go for quite a while!

They are spoiled with me working from home and get pretty indignant when left alone. We often sneak back in and startle them because they don’t hear us come back in over the sound of their howling. Always good for a few laughs

One day when the farrier was here, I kicked them out of the barn since they were getting underfoot trying to steal bits of hoof, and they promptly planted themselves at the door and howled for a half hour. I was surprised the farrier got through the job since he was laughing so hard at them the entire time. My neighbour a 1/4 mile away called over to find out what the heck was going on at my house.

[Bicoastal]

[QUOTE=apcohrs;5912728]
Our local coyotes howl every time the emergency sirens go off, whether for a fire, or for the 10am 1st Tuesday of the month drill.[/QUOTE]

My mom’s lab howls at emergency vehicle sirens, too! If my little guy is there, he will add his voice. His is so plaintive and mournful it breaks my heart.

Would love to hear my Pap’s howl. His bark is …interesting :eek:… like a 70yo 2-pack-a-day-smoker.

[LauraKY]

Foxhound starts, lab then harmonizes…only when they’re left behind and only for a couple of minutes. Thank heavens, we have no close neighbors.

[MKW]

My three corgis will howl at sirens. They will also howl when my cell phone rings, which is helpful when I am out at the barn w/o it! The pup will also get to howling when the land line phone rings! Love my corgis!

[lovey1121]

Boy, you guys give me nostalgic howler envy

[kelliope]

Chihuahuas howl like crazy! They love it. My boy “asks” to howl. I have to get it on video.

[My_Two_Cents]

When I was a kid we had a dog that howled at the Jeopardy music. Now we have a Springer that will howl on command but he’s getting old and losing his voice so we don’t ask him to do it anymore. Pretty funny to watch husband and dog howl at each other.

[HydroPHILE]

My German Shepherd will only howl when he hears my car (and my car specifically) come into our driveway (which is 1/4 mile long - or more.) I call him “Old Man Dog.” Our pit bull attempts to howl when she hears my car come home, but it sounds like she can’t figure out how to form her mouth into an “O” to howl so she just ends up making funky woo-owww-ohhh sounds.

That is the only time our two dogs howl, and if you walk into the house in the middle of howling, our Shepherd will not just stop…he has to do a decrescendo to a stop

[ChocoMare]

My late Akita, GiGi, moo’ed/howled… breed trait. LOL… neighbor thought we had a cow! :lol:

My 2 now (Lab and terrier mix) both howl at the sirens. Fortunately, they harmonize nicely.

[Auventera_Two]

Ohhhhh yes I have a howler. Beagle/Walker hound cross. I have some great videos of him I should try to get up on You Tube. Last winter when a red fox was walking through the snow outside our bay window - wowwwwwww! He was hitting every note on the scale and chortling and yodling. I laughed until I had tears running!

[dougie]

My mutt howls. The pound told us he was Irish setter/akita. He’s the white one.

He used to only howl when the phone rang. Lately he’s been howling at the deer, people outside, when I leave the house, and whatever else sets him off. I like when he howls, but my other dog (the tan one in the picture) tries and it doesn’t work out for him. He tries so hard every single time too.

I had never had a howling dog before but now I love it. Makes me laugh every time

[leilatigress]

Whitney Houston’s I will always love you. Howled by a miniature dachshund. The miniature schnauzer howls but it sounds more like screaming. Love that dog until he opens his mouth! Grandfather had a blue heeler that actually managed to silence a blue tick coon hound. He was a champion howler till she got a hold of him. Every once in a blue moon he’d sneak off without her and howl till she found him and then silence.

My American Eskimo would howl at the phone or if candles were lit in the house. Candles were banned in our house when he was there, his previous owners used to burn him with the wax for fun. I used to love his howling though and as he got older it was harder for him to stop once he got going.

[JanM]

The neighbor’s huge K-9 (he was a real police dog) GSD used to howl at sirens, and one day I heard him howling, and stop, but there was another weird noise going too. It was my Min Schnauzer trying to copy the big dog-it was kind of pathetic too since my dog didn’t realize you stop when the sirens stop, and so he was doing a pathetic little solo howl. When the other dog moved my dog stopped howling, since he apparently was just copying Sammy.

[Mao]

Ha! I have video! These are my 6 month old Scottish Deerhound puppies - littermates Ben (blue collar) and Belle (red collar).

It’s sort of in-between howling & talking, and involves a lot of teeth-clanking. They are hysterically funny - to me, anyway! : -)))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7e-OKDBEis