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I always wondered, if you set off a doorbell out in the woods, would wild dogs bark at it?
(My dogs bark at the doorbells on TV too. Also they can now see the new flat screen TV's and will bark at some things - especially dogs or animals - horses, etc.)
Yep the doorbell on TV needs to go. My 80lb + doberman almost tore the tone nail off my big toe the other night. She spins her wheels on our pergo floor and my foot was in her path.
Haha! First Dog would go crazy when she heard TV doorbells, and they did sound just like the doorbell in our previous house where she grew up. But we got used to telling her, "It's on TV!" And after a while she got it, it wasn't real, nobody was at the door, everything was okay. So we started using the command "It's on TV" every time she worried about something and we wanted to let her know everything was fine, and it worked! She was one of those rare dogs with a vocabulary of 200 words, and capable of understanding whole little sentences (such as "Your Kong is upstairs--bring it!")
Present Dog couldn't care less about doorbells on TV, but she listens carefully for the tiny click of our front gate, and goes into Stranger Alert immediately. She's such a good kid, but no language genius. Her entire vocabulary consists of probably 20 words max, and after 6 years with us she has just figured out what "Get the ball" means! Go Sweetie!
My 9 y/o foster used to go running to check when my leaky shower would drip onto the tub long after I vacated it. She was such a bright pup...I miss her. Showering was fine, even the doorbell was fine but she did not like that drip, lol.
Both of my former dogs used to bark when they heard doorbells on tv. Eventually, they'd bark if I just randomly yelled "Come in!" --even when no one was at the door nor had a doorbell been rung. I know, I know, cruel, but cheap entertainment. What sucked about doorbells real or on tv was after my last dog went blind. She'd react to the noise and run into furniture and almost fall down the stairs trying to get to the door. I stopped yelling "come in" after she went blind. Visitors knew better to call me on the phone and not knock or ring the bell.
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What sucked about doorbells real or on tv was after my last dog went blind. She'd react to the noise and run into furniture and almost fall down the stairs trying to get to the door. I stopped yelling "come in" after she went blind. Visitors knew better to call me on the phone and not knock or ring the bell.
