Today I am thankful the peace that comes from the fact that Ember does not bark at squirrels. I can't even take credit for it, even though I was careful not to use the word in front of her or excite her over their existence. I think a good part of it is just in her genes!
Here's a link to a video of the squirrel running across the top of the fence. If you turn on the audio, you can hear the absence of barking. Ember was sitting right below on the shed pad, with me.
Life is good. Spark on.
Yesterday morning, in preparation for tomorrow's predicted freeze, I opened the house and turned on the furnace to eliminate the first burn smell. No blower fan. A new thermostat was installed in May, so a phone call the heating/air conditioning company was made. The service guy found a wire that was not connected. The problem was corrected in less that 5 minutes with no charge. I am very grateful!!
ReplyDeleteMy goofy dog doesn't bark at squirrels, but the birds and wild critters are another story.
Ember's a fairly quiet companion. She does bark when she thinks I have abandoned her, but not for very long. She settles pretty quickly.
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Good Ember! Miss Lilly . . . OH MY. She is vocal w/squirrels, chipmunks, birds, rabbits. Ah well, my "emergency alert" system.
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Sometimes having a barking alert is a good thing. Especially when potty training a puppy?
DeleteThat is so good! I don't know many dogs that don't go nuts when they see a squirrel. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I quite deliberately worked at NOT exciting her, not even voicing the word Squirrel until the "white noise" kind of behavior was well established. I don't think this would have worked, though, if she were a different dog.
DeleteOur dogs don't bark at squirrels...they do hunt them, though. (We have ground squirrels...) We do have a dead squirrel to deal with every so often. I did see some squirrels in Central Park when my friend and I were in NYC and visited the park. So interesting to see them ... different than our California desert ground squirrels. One was black and had the most beautiful plume of a tail. The other was a pale grey. Our dogs do bark at birds that land in our yard or fence, and I'd just about swear some of the birds enjoy enticing them and swooping off at the last minute.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be, in my grandmother's time, that black squirrels, specifically, were not seen West of the Mississippi river. They migrated during her lifetime, and were seen in Council Bluffs, Iowa, but not across the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska. In my lifetime, they have migrated further west, and I see them regularly here in Lincoln.
DeleteOn the other hand, the red squirrels that flirt with my dog don't appear to exist in the Southern Tier of New York, where we moved when my son was a toddler. We had a fluffball of a white dog named Lily at that time, and she would go NUTS over the red squirrels in Nebraska, but did not recognize their grey cousins in the Endicott, NY area as being squirrels at all!
So funny! I agree that some critters appear to delight in stirring up the dogs!