dedmiston wrote:
I work from home and my two dogs are convinced that it's their duty to scare away the Amazon drivers, because evidently it's obvious to the dogs that the Amazon peeps are coming to murder us.
I can call out to them in the other room and our Golden will come to my side in my office and hang her head to apologize to me because she "forgot" that she's not supposed to bark. My Aussie will continue to bark regardless, because she knows that I'm too dumb to know about the murder thing. Her proof is that she always barks and we've never been murdered by Amazon, FedEx, or Jehovah's Witnesses. Not yet, at least.
Different breeds. Different individual dogs. Different behavior.
They've camped with us for years and I usually ask the neighbors. From their reports it appears that the dogs never bark unless someone comes close to our trailer (into our camp). The predictable exception though is that they absolutely lose their minds when we get back to camp, so there's a span of 45 seconds between the time we pull up and the time we get inside and they stop. We even jokingly say, "Cue barking dogs" as we pull up to camp (or home).
Hilarious Dedmiston!
Our Minnie Aussie also saves us from every Amazon Fed ex and brown truck driver!
We live on acreage at the end of a dead end behind a gate so there are literally generally only 3 types of vehicles that pull up. The daily it seems Amazon or Fed ex delivering something my wife couldn’t live without. People we know and people who shouldn’t be there (very rare on the last one).
The Aussie and the big black bear looking mutt spend a lot of time out front of the house running loose because they don’t go anywhere and they get sick of our Shepherd pup playing “pummel the other dogs “ 12 hours a day.
The big 100lb bear dog generally walks over wagging her tail. That gets her alot of dog treats. The mini is pretending like she’s guarding the fort to the death. And the only actual intimidating dog is bouncing off the fence like Tigger Too because she doesn’t get to come out and play!
Most of the drivers are good with dogs but it’s always funny to see the ones stopped at the top of the drive calling the phone because there’s 22lbs of fluffy fury doing laps around their car!