12/26/2023
How many of you get annoyed when your dog barks presumably at nothing?
Where their ears perk up and they look wildly around in search of the sound that startled them and we stand there wondering what set them off in the first place.
Since becoming a dog trainer and owner of an environmentally sensitive dog, I have become sound reactive myself. I haven’t the slightest clue when this behavior started within myself where I hear the slightest of sounds, but it has helped me understand the dogs point of view much better.
For those of you with sound reactive dogs or even confident dogs, take a step outside and just listen. Birds sing, cars whizz past in the distance, generators hum, dogs exchange barks from afar, children laugh, and sometimes even music blares. And then remind yourself that your dog can hear all of that and more at twice the frequency that we can.
Even your kitchen appliances produce high pitched sounds that we cannot detect.
Humans hearing sensitivity is capped at 20,000 hz while dogs run laps around us at 47,000 to 65,000 hz.
Keep that in mind before you lose your temper at their concern, the world is much louder to them.
