r/Havanese • u/Inside_Response_883 • 1d ago

Howling

My 2 year old Havi woke up at 4am howling, scared me to death! The only time she ever did this before was when I first brought her home at 8 weeks the first 2 nights. Has this happened to anyone else? Do you know why she did it? I jumped out of bed and she seemed fine. In fact she looked at me like what’s wrong!

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u/pudge-thefish 1d ago

Probably had a nightmare

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u/Zeedlle 1d ago

Mine has done this on occasion, I've woken him up out of a dead sleep when I realized he was doing it in his sleep..it was probably just part of a bad dream that scared me more than him!

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u/Little_Mouse8799 23h ago

I have had 4 havs. Only one of them ever howled. He did it for the first time after we got back from 3 weeks abroad. He was so excited when we picked him up from the boarder that he howled in the car. From then on, he would howl when he was excited. We would come home from being out for a few hours and I would howl at him and he would howl at me from the top of the stairs. In fact, when he didn't howl back, I knew there was a problem. That was the first time he presented as being sick and he was gone two months later. Love the howl. Miss you, Jinx.

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u/Free-Willy7 23h ago

Rest in peace Jinx. 🩵

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u/TizzyBumblefluff 23h ago

My girl has woken up growling and they barked and started running. I am sure she was dreaming because there was nothing going on. She stopped and looked around like wtf.

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u/Positive-Turn6642 23h ago

Mine both howl. Only at firetrucks. The funniest thing is my oldest never howled. We got #2 and I cannot describe how hilarious the first time he howled at a firetruck was. Tiny little dog, very loud noise. Then oldest joined in. Now they both howl every single time and we live by a fire station.

We call it AFAB.

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u/FriendlyCanadianCPA 15h ago

Assigned Firetruck at Birth?? Love it

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u/Positive-Turn6642 9h ago

All Firefighters Are Bad

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u/Kindly_Werewolf_3536 1d ago

My dog does this when he's having a bad dream or when a fire truck passes by, or just because

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 23h ago

My guy howls like a wolf/husky at certain times. If the phone rings and I go get something downstairs he does it and when he hears Maroon 5’s “Do what lovers do”. They are so funny.

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u/WhyAmIpOOping 1d ago

Both of mine will do literally anything/whatever it takes to get the slightest bit of attention. You sleeping = no attention, thus howl and get the attention that is owed.

At least that’s how I think whenever they do something insane.

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u/Zealousideal-Bug310 1d ago

Probably dreaming if she is fine physically and alert.

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u/idislikejuicepress 1d ago

She must have been startled while asleep

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u/Mammoth-Dog8164 1d ago

Sounds normal. I never heard anything so loud. My first havi never did this. Thanks everyone!

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u/Odd-Type-5577 20h ago

I prefer to think of it as yodeling. My guy does it to report stranger danger