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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
We live close to an ambulance/fire truck route. Not only does Duke hear their sirens before we do, he hears them before they are turned on.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
We live close to an ambulance/fire truck route. Not only does Duke hear their sirens before we do, he hears them before they are turned on.

:headscratch: Before it's turned on there is nothing to hear.
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Where we live it is absolutely quiet, except for natural sounds. Man made sounds are very in frequent.
My point in the quiet environment we are in when Biscuit is a couple acres over but still visible, all I have to do is just barely whisper and Biscuit is coming to me. Biscuit is always in tune to where I am all the time. I’ve never had a dog that’s that dialed in.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Duke is probably going off on the page out if it is a manned station . If not he is responding to a particular group or particular vehicle with a unique sound .

Dogs dialed in ..... They are hard wired for the pack sometimes the wiring is more solid in some than others . The younger they are and the more closely their pack is bonded to them the more tuned in they seem to be to the alphas .
I had a rescue once about 3 months old when we got her . We lived in the city and she would here me at the over pass at about a mile away......Chevy LUV with a header and a Corvette long side pipe muffler . She probably heard it before I left work 4 miles across town . I worked her at least and hour every night after work and we were constant companions all weekend until the world ended that last Saturday in January when I left her home to go play with airplanes ......what a temper tantrum.
The other was on my heal from really the moment I picked her up at 58 days . We trained between naps and meals hard and soft until she was about 12 weeks . Every evening and 3 days a week she was like that even the day we parted at the rainbow bridge . Outside of having to get the key to interrupt the nose lock she was tuned in like that .
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
My posts of Duke hearing things before they happen was an attempt at facetiousness. He does hear the sirens well before I do, though, even when my hearing aids are at their highest setting.
 

Tom

Well-Known Member
While a freightliner isn't exactly quiet, my dogs and one of my cats could hear me when I was about a half mile away. They'd be sitting next to where I parked waiting for me. Old Tomcat was more like a dog than a cat. I would call him and if he was in earshot, he'd come running.