| Your dog may be reacting to something he smells rather than hears. My dear Calvin was born deaf, and was normally a very quiet dog. He didn't bark at people or most critters in the yard, and he left chasing vermin (woodchucks, mice etc.) to his not-weiler sister. But let a bear come into the neighborhood and his hackles would go up and he'd start making these harumphing woofs. It didn't matter if we were inside or outside, day or night. It took us a while to figure out what he was alerting to, because the bears were not always visible. But once we did, we realized that he was 100% accurate. In fact, now that he's gone we miss our early warning/warn-off system. My husband and I were sitting in our garden the other night and a bear came up from the field within about 12 feet of us. We heard in crashing in the shrubbery and beat a strategic retreat. Scary! |