Night Time and Barking Dogs
By ARM
@responsiveme (22926)
India
September 21, 2017 9:15pm CST
Dogs in the night have always found their way into books.
I met them in , "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time", in Haddon's book .Have also wondered about the dog that did not bark in the Sherlock Holmes story,"Silver Blaze".
But last night it was the barking of real dogs that got me awake. There was this repetitive and incessant barking from quite a lot of doggy voices in the middle of the night. So much so that, I woke up and went out to the balcony to see what was the matter.
Apparently nothing, just this whole pack rushing up and down the empty road barking loudly.And a whole herd of cows sitting peacefully by the side of the road chewing their cud.
Anyway its morning now, the dogs have disappeared, the cars taken over.The noise continues...
Have you ever woken up in the night by some outside noise?
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32 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
22 Sep 17
Were they just the street dogs or wild dogs do you know ARM?
Yes I sometimes wake up here with other people in the apartments here making some noise but not too often thankfully.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
22 Sep 17
@responsiveme YES!! Here even in my place, rather urban, you can still hear those wild animals, the coyotes yipping and barking sometimes late in the evening...you had the foxes too
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Sep 17
@TiarasOceanView the feeling is so disgusting if hear some irritating sounds during sleep time. 
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Street dogs...No wilderness left
.Your response made me tenner the barking? of foxes long long ago in the night....When they lived in holes in adjoining areas
.Your response made me tenner the barking? of foxes long long ago in the night....When they lived in holes in adjoining areas4 people like this
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
Maybe your dog thinks he has to guard the house ,hence the barks.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
@Kandae11 Maybe he sees unfriendly aliens out there and is telling them to keep away?
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@Kandae11 (53679)
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23 Sep 17
@responsiveme He does guard the house, but sometimes I feel he is barking at the sky.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Even at night? Maybe the are trying to be good watch dogs
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@velvet53 (22528)
• Palisade, Colorado
22 Sep 17
@responsiveme Yes even at night. They won't be good watch dogs because the owner let's them bark all the time. If someone goes by on a bicycle, they bark. They bark at people walking by. That's not good.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
@velvet53 you are right, no one will no if its burglars or they are just barking out of habit.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
22 Sep 17
@responsiveme thank god you could still go back to sleep. I'd be creeped out. Lol
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Yup, I thought of that angle too and peered into the surrounding darkness wondering if I could spot some ghostly wraith...But didn't ponder too long on it and crept back to bed
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
Today morning it was a whole lot of crows....
But sleep was ok.
Have a good day too when you wake up
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Till what in the night.Maybe only on weekends
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
23 Sep 17
From time to time yes. During the summer months and sometimes on weekends it is the kids out there playing Basketball. But there have been times we have had Barking dogs awake us, or keep us awoke longer too and not sure what the issue might be.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
Yes, dogs bark but then I wanted to know what was the reason in my case.
How late do the kids play basket ball but that sounds like a happy kind of noise
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Yes, but right then there was nothing around
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
4 Oct 17
I remember the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze". Dogs usually bark at night when they feel people moving. If they were loud, I understand they woke you up. Where we live it's a very quiet area, the minimum noise wakes me up.
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
5 Oct 17
@responsiveme Jennifer likes a lot to read mystery and crimes books, exactly as I do.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
5 Oct 17
@LadyDuck me too..I still go back and reread Agatha Christie
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
5 Oct 17
Yes, I know about your area. ..It is indeed lovely.
You and Jennifer @Marty are the only persons who referred to my book references...
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@Tampa_girl7 (48908)
• United States
22 Sep 17
My dog likes to bark at night too.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Well;, he makes sure there are no intruders. This was a whole pack barking.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Sep 17
I used to all the time in the old neighborhood, every house had a dog and they all seemed to bark at night, I am glad I moved!
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Sep 17
@andriaperry, I also hate barks from dogs, so disturbing.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
They were good watch dogs.You have moved out to open spaces ,right.I love what you write about the lake, and gardening
@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
23 Sep 17
All the dogs around here are indoor dogs. The only time I hear them is if a visitor comes to their door or if an earthquake comes through-- they are good early earthquake warning systems! What wakes me up is people coming home drunk late at night and talking loudly in the street. Very irritating!
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Sep 17
@petatonicsca , we wonder why there are insensitive human beings.They lack respect to people sleeping.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
for your dogs out there and 
for the drunks that wake you up1 person likes this
@SerenityEngel (525)
• United Kingdom
22 Sep 17
The fence being blown down woke me up one night. My neighbours flushing the toilet all night long has done it as well. I wear ear plugs now to keep the noise out.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
Do the neighbours keep flushing the toilet throughout the night...strange.
Anyway, hope the earplugs are getting you good sleep.
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
30 Oct 17
LOL! Those dogs weren't just running around barking for no reason, ARM! They were having their own version of a myLot party! (They were excited because they were finally getting to meet other dogs they had always spoken to and enjoyed on their version of myLot! )
Now, it should be our turn to try to get all of our myLot friends together so we can finally meet each other in real life. (Yes, I know this is only a pipe-dream, but it always makes my heart sing when I think that it might happen someday.)
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Now, it should be our turn to try to get all of our myLot friends together so we can finally meet each other in real life. (Yes, I know this is only a pipe-dream, but it always makes my heart sing when I think that it might happen someday.)1 person likes this
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Oct 17
What a great reason....We do need to have a mylot party too
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
31 Oct 17
@DaddyEvil oh oh...I missed out on that.
Wish you a great year ahead... may health , peace and laughter be yours
@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
25 Sep 17
I was awake because of humans making noise in the middle of the night, so unusual for our quiet neighbourhood, I was happy when the noise stopped. And happier when my husband came home from the west coast so I could sleep soundly.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
1 Oct 17
@responsiveme They were having a party, and they don't often do that but it did keep me awake for a while. Where I live is called the bench - a flat area half way up a steep escarpment. For some reason although I don't know the details, voices can be heard from big distances, conversations in the back yard are heard by all near by, parties are extremely loud just because of the echo caused by the details of the mountain. It took a while to get used to that but with time we just block it out of our heads...
The Niagara Escarpment, in its Ontario portion, is 725 km long, covering 1923 km2, with a maximum height of 335 m.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Sep 17
You are absolutely right about bring subconscious my on the lookout when a family member has to arrive and dropping of to sleep immediately they do come.
The humans must have been having a party
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
4 Oct 17
@PainsOnSlate the sound must be carrying because of the wide spaces and the echo.
After a time , I guess we do get used to it.
Olive on the top floor and the sounds from the street come on loud and clear but it's muted downstairs where my landlord lives
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@DianneN (246643)
• United States
24 Sep 17
@responsiveme I know. It was awful and to this day, I have no idea what animal was screaming. It broke my heart.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
24 Sep 17
That sounds bad...Nature can be cruel at times with predators but that's life
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
22 Sep 17
maybe there were men walking in the streets?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
22 Sep 17
@responsiveme then they were barking on the cows.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
22 Sep 17
@ridingbet no because they stood besides the cows too and in fact some of the pack were sleeping next to the cows. Of course they too got up and started running up and down.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
@YesWay maybe the dog barks at them coz he thinks they are awful too
coz he thinks they are awful too@responsiveme (22926)
• India
23 Sep 17
Oooh....Haven't you asked them why?
Does the dog sleep in the morning?
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Sep 17
Good for you...Nothing like uninterrupted sleep
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
25 Sep 17
@YrNemo it is not an exciting book in the sense it's not a order mystery . rather it is the story of a young boy with difficulties who conquered them
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@YrNemo (20261)
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25 Sep 17
@responsiveme I have that book 'the curious incident....' here, but never read it. How exciting is it?
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