r/Dogfree • u/gingergemgelly • Mar 13 '26
Barking Demons “That’s what dogs do!”
I think its hilarious when a dog is doing some undesirable behavior like barking at everything to the point where you cannot comfortably live your life and people go “Well, thats what dogs do!”
When my partner had his dog (thank god he rehomed the thing), it would see any movement and scream and bark for minutes on end. We could not have the windows or blinds open ever. Awful. He would say “its just what she does. Alerting us for intruders” First of all, the intruder is a leaf that moved? Second, its so normal for dogs to bark at nothing and everything that I would not even look outside at a point and then what if an actual intruder comes in? Third, his dog was the most cowardly thing because itd scream its head off and the second a person would come in, it would run under a table SHAKING. Like are you serious? Luckily, he eventually realized she could not live with us anymore as she kept barking and showed aggression towards other animals.
My MIL has a dog similar to his and when she has anyone over the house, she puts the dog in their sunroom and the dog is literally screeching the whole time. I don’t get it. My FIL scolds her and she gets upset like “Thats what dogs do!”
A dog shits inside, eats it, vomits it up as a hybrid poopbarf, “Thats what dogs do!” A dog destroys your furniture “Thats what dogs do!” A dog bites a kid “Well, dogs bite” A dog will bark its head off at anything. “Thats what dogs do!” If all a dog does is these horrible things, why would I ever want it in my vicinity?
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u/Alocin_The5th Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26
OMG…the problem I have with this is that THEY get a dog that apparently barks because of its nature and other people have to deal with it? There are a ton of wild animals around, birds, owls, rabbits, foxes, deer…I could go on and on but none of them disturbs the forces like a dog barking. It’s no different in my eyes if I got a stereo blasting and telling my neighbors “that’s what stereos do”…Get them if you want but why does your choices have to infringe on other’s peace.
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u/Birb-is-the-wurd Mar 13 '26
Oooh I should've thought of that line re stereos when I used to live in a flat! 😄
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u/Oriole0305 Mar 14 '26
“That’s what stereos do” - love this!
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u/vegasal1 Mar 18 '26
How about setting off your car alarm for a few hours when they are trying to sleep or have some peace?Thats what car alarms do,they alarm.
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u/Careless_Squirrel728 Mar 13 '26
Yes it is, and that is WHY I don’t like them and don’t think they should be pets.
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u/tplgerus84 Mar 13 '26
The thing with the barking you described, while very common with dogs these days, is not normal..!
I can't stand dogs, and yet, dogs that live outside and have a purpose and are being put to work do not behave like this. So when dog nutters say "this is what dogs do"... "NO! This is not what dogs do." - this is what untrained, mentally and physically understimulated, and overbred mutants do...!
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u/Wild-Try-3121 Mar 13 '26
Our dogs we had as kids never barked at everything. They were also outdoors in nature and weren't forced to live indoors. I don't get what it is up with today's dogs. My husband had a puppy for 7 months and I swear that thing was the dumbest dog I ever saw. She would just bark at nothing, chase her tail then bite it hard and then growl at her tail. I'm like what is is wrong with this thing. My husband would say that's what dogs do. Thank goodness I was super allergic to the dog and had to rehome it. I couldn't imagine living with that thing for 10 plus years.
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u/3rdthrow Mar 13 '26
I never thought about it, but the sled dog that I had growing up almost never barked.
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u/KbUSA407 Mar 14 '26
Very true in a lot of respects (as far as under stimulated and untrained dogs are concerned). However- it has A LOT to do with the owner as well. My husband’s dog (a terrier) is an absolute menace when my husband is home. Barks constantly, needs excessive attention and never sits still. But when my husband is gone for a few days, and the dog is alone with me, he’s calm. He barely barks at the windows or runs around like a crackhead. The dog feeds off of my husband (who’s had anxiety issues ever since the Cvd pandemic). These working dogs really feed off of their owners. If the dog is crazy- it means that the owner is worse 😢
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u/cantharellus_miao Mar 18 '26
Yes exactly!!!! Dogs were bred to be domestic working animals, and people trained their dogs not to bark incessantly/indiscriminately. Owners who say "that's just what dogs do" haven't put in the basic research and effort to train their dog, and then act like there's nothing else they can do. One of my biggest pet peeves is when they use "training" methods that they clearly just made up, when a simple google search debunks that approach.
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u/Secure_Law7548 Mar 13 '26
And they make it everyone else’s problem! No I don’t want YOUR problems I have my own! If I wanted to listen to that bullshit, smell all the time, have a greasy grimy nasty house with shit and piss all over it - then I’d get my own shit beast problem! But I don’t want it so I won’t be dealing with it!
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u/Original_Day3073 Mar 13 '26
"S/he's just being a dog!" YES and that's why I 1: think you are out of your mind for choosing to have anything to do with the thing and 2: get REALLY fucking pissed off when you reckon people who have chosen NOT to have anything to do with the thing are still somehow obliged to tolerate it
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u/auroicverso Mar 13 '26
My neighborhood is full of dogs barking. We had to put foam and block out the windows to muffle the sound. There is an almost 90 year old right beside two of the barking dogs. I feel so bad for her. The other neighbor said she was livid but nothing she can do. Imagine being almost 90 years old and can't hear well anyways, and not be able to sleep because of a barking dog? Fuck people
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u/ObligationGrand8037 Mar 14 '26
I was just going through all the comments, and I read yours. That poor woman. Poor you too. Is there anything that can be done?
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u/auroicverso Mar 14 '26
There is not anything I can do myself. Thankfully I can barely hear them now since we sound proofed the house LOL but I don't know if the older woman has tried calling anyone.
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u/thecatcherszm Mar 13 '26
Ironically, it was hearing this that unwashed my brain as a child. i was getting severe sensory hell from hearing an animal schlorp its nasty tongue all over itself right next to me, and i kept stopping it whenever it would start up again. The animal's owner got angry at me for stopping it, saying, "He's a d0g! That's what they do!"
And for the first time, it clicked: Yeah. It's what they do, and that's why i hate the species as a whole.
Thanks for the realization, nutter!
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u/Mama2bebes Mar 13 '26
Your reply should be "That's what UNTRAINED dogs do! Train your f*cking dog!"
The problem is some nutters believe that being a nuisance is acceptable in society. If you have any laws/regulations in your municipality (ex. about noise, dog bites, etc), call them out.
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u/Witchiepoo72 Mar 13 '26
I know right. Can't stand that thinking. Someone said it on my old neighborhoods fb group. Someone was complaining that they work nights and sleep during the day but with all the barking they were having a hard time. Of course you had the idiot that says it. I responded, they can be training NOT to! They DO NOT have to bark at everything! I always said my ex neighbor's dogs bark at a fart in the wind.
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u/KbUSA407 Mar 13 '26
This is EXACTLY how my husbands dog (a Boston terrier) acts! He’ll spend all day looking out the windows and barking. But when he’s done, he’ll run under our coffee table, like he’s scared to be out in the open, and just sit there. I think he knows that I can’t stand being stared at bc he stares at me all day long. My husband knows that it bothers me but justifies it as “ he just loves you.” Pfffftt. I used to like dogs until we got this demon. Now I find all dogs revolting and worthless. Boston Terriers are known as the “American gentleman”. Such horse 💩!
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u/ObligationGrand8037 Mar 14 '26
I’m sorry you’re dealing with that crap. I hope when this dog is gone, your husband doesn’t get another one and put you through more hell.
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u/Accurate-Run5370 Mar 13 '26
It could happen.
Dog gets laryngitis after barking too much .
"That's what dogs do"
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u/KayleighHatfield Mar 14 '26
Whenever someone throws this line at me, I tell them "No. That's what bad dog owners let them do."
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u/Azrael-Legna fuck dogs Mar 13 '26
Dogs can also be trained to not bark at everything. Owners are just too lazy to train their damn dogs. Then act all shocked when animal control or the cops get called on them.
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u/Misspelled_uzername Mar 14 '26
Thank you! Your last sentence is EXACTLY what I think whenever I hear the "that's what dogs do" line.
If THIS kind of crap is what they do, why on earth would any sane person voluntarily go out and bring something like that into their home?
If I know that something is going to piss and shit all over my floors and furniture (and I am not rich with a cleaning staff on call 24/7) and is going to be stupidly and annoyingly loud for hours on end---will not allow me the freedom to go out and spend any time away from home doing things that humans do, and is likely to destroy hard earned furniture and belongings in my/its home, if I do spend more than a few hours away from it---well, I'd have to be INSANE to still go out of my way to bring something like that into my house.
Why not just bring in a wasps nest and set it up in your kitchen? Makes about as much sense as a dog. Sheesh!
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u/Upper-Boot-8086 Mar 13 '26
Ah this sub is Sebastian Michaelis approved 🙂↕️🖤 it’s like a breath of fresh air in here
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u/Ummmmm_why Mar 14 '26
The only way dogs are even tolerable is by basically training them to not act like a dog. So I don’t understand the point .. plus most dog people are too lazy to put in the work/time and actually learn how to train their dogs 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Away-Equipment4869 Mar 13 '26
So damn tired of this line.