This morning as I was headed to a 'pit stop' before coming down to the computer for a bit, I happened to glance out the window and had to stop and watch a bit.
Mocha, our dog, was standing about 5 feet from our back fence, facing towards where our neighbors have two dogs and she was barking her head off, and so were probably 90% of the canines in our neighborhood.
I was gonna go out and 'hush' the mutt, then I noticed her tail was sticking 'straight up' while she was barking. I've never noticed her doing that before. Plus it wasn't a 'snarly' bark, like I've heard her have occasionally when a 'stranger' is going by.
So I stood there and watched Mocha continue to bark, in that same position for a couple of minutes. Then the entire canine neighborhood went silent, Mocha dropped her 'flag pole' tail and trotted off to a different part of the yard.
Odd, I thought.
Then the scene from the movie 101 Dalmatians popped into my head where the dogs were all sending a message up the line as to where the puppies were.
I wonder if that's what the dogs in our neighborhood were doing this morning?
Hummmm???
**GRIN**
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As intelligent as dogs are, it seems highly likely that you witnessed their version of "The Midnight Bark."
Yes, they were "talking". The straight up tail means excitement, not necessarily a bad kind, just excited. It might not mean much of anything to us, a cat is on the prowl three blocks away or something equally mundane to us. But it's news to them.
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