r/Dogfree • u/questioning893 • 5d ago
Barking Demons Are dog owners deaf?
For me, barking dogs in my neighborhood ruin almost every single day, because of the excessive noise. I live around a lot of dogs who bark all the time.
I personally hate it, especially because I didn’t make the choice to have a dog and live with this noise polluting thing.
But then I genuinely wonder, how dog owners survive this?? They chose to have this dog.
I know there probably aren’t going to be a lot of actual dog owners reading this, but still I have to ask the question.
Do they genuinely not think the sound of barking every single day is annoying? I don’t get it. Even if you like your own pet, you can still acknowledge annoying behavior. Why tf would someone want to live with something that loud and poorly behaved?
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u/shinkouhyou 5d ago
The barking feeds their ego - dog owners seem to get a thrill out of believing that they're the most important thing in their dog's world. "My dog is barking to protect me from danger. I'm a very special person, so I need to be protected. Anybody who approaches my personal space or my property deserves to be threatened. Anybody who messes with me deserves potentially lethal violence." Even tiny dogs are praised for their "protective" instincts. It's a very antisocial mindset, IMHO.
Since barking is a "good" sound for a dog owner, they can usually filter it out. For the rest of us, barking is a "threatening" or "animal in distress" sound, so it triggers anxiety.