Time for another Do Dogs Like Blues Harp thread?

[tantric superman 4668]

So in the old internet message board you all helped me with your thoughts on whether dogs liked being crated. 

(Follow up, when the dog is put in a room with his crate, he naps in the crate.  When we give him the run the house, he just plops down anywhere.)

So I was playing some harmonica in the back room and the dog gets down into sphinx position and starts howling along.  The wife comes charging in and grabs the pup and tells me I'm hurting him and hauls him out of the room.  (She's not a fan when we get him to howl.)

My thoughts are that if the harmonica were hurting the dog he'd leave the room.  The fact that he relaxes and sings along (howls - doesn't look particularly comfortable) means he is enjoying himself.

Pretty much this (although I am a better harp player):

 

[UTCzech III 2917]

 

[Art Vandelay 1712]

Yeah I think some dogs enjoy howling along to music of all kinds, not just blues harp. Hell, when I was a kid my grandma's miniature schnauzer would howl along to her singing and playing the organ.

[Prepuce of Doom 21142]

Your wife is silly. 

[Art Vandelay 1712]

Show this to your wife. I bet she changes her mind.

Also, would (the girl, not the dog)

Edited August 8, 2018 by Art Vandelay

[JBJ 3724]

I don't think the howling itself is a sign of agitation. 

Does the dogs posture change? Does he cower or become excited?  Like does his tail tuck or go hyper-active?  Do his eyes dilate?

[Incredulity 11739]

You need to eliminate gluten from the dogs diet, it’s a cure-all.

[tantric superman 4668]

Nope.  Stayed in a relaxed position.  Snout just went up in the air to howl.

I'll just play after I send the wife out on errands.  No use poking the bear.

 

And one of these day I will learn what glutten is. 

[TexArcher 38449]

Dogs are sensitive to high volume, like any animal, but they seem to enjoy high pitches.  Whenever I play guitar, my dog comes and sits next to me.

And he's not howling because it hurts.  Wolves howl whenever they hear anything that sounds like another pack's howling.  Hell, my last dog howled at ambulances and fire trucks going by.

Edited August 9, 2018 by TexArcher

[JBJ 3724]

12 hours ago, tantric superman said:

Nope.  Stayed in a relaxed position.  Snout just went up in the air to howl.

I'll just play after I send the wife out on errands.  No use poking the bear.

The dog is just wanting to join in.  Could be a good way to bond.  Tell your wife that her feelings aren't the dogs feelings.

I'm real slow to apply wolf-to-dog logic, but social howling is a safe comparison.

[El Diablo 4232]

20 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

Yeah I think some dogs enjoy howling along to music of all kinds, not just blues harp. Hell, when I was a kid my grandma's miniature schnauzer would howl along to her singing and playing the organ.

Was it your organ?

[Art Vandelay 1712]

2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

Was it your organ?

The dog's....which, come to think of it, may explain the howling.