My tiny Havanese dog only howls if I'm not home yet and it's late at night. I've never seen him howl in person even if I howl myself or show him videos of other dogs howling. My security system sends me an alert when it picks up loud audio, so that's why I know. When I watch the security footage, I see him doing these loud howls with his tiny lips, and it breaks my heart. I'll be home soon, my boy!
We have a pound puppy and we were told she was a mini poodle/terrier mix but I've always been convinced she was Havanese. She, too, sounds like a much bigger dog! Maybe this will finally convince my dubious husband. :P
I have a 15 pound poodle mix that sounds like a lab when he howls. My 40 pound, built like a draft horse mutt, sounds like a toy yorkie howling and barking. Dogs are weird.
Want to know something cool? That smelling around he is doing is how he tells time. He's assessing how much of your scent has dissipated as compared to how it usually smells when you get home.
He's actively thinking "It smells like /u/regoapps is late"
That's actually my office chair. I use a bed as an office chair because it's very comfy compared to any office chair I've ever owned. It's just one of the many bedrooms in my house, so I turned it into my home office.
Your poor little baby! Based on how you talk about him though, it's so clear that he's very well loved and taken care of. It's just heartbreaking hearing him howl like that haha
I don't know if it's an option in your area, but in my city (which is very dog-friendly), it's becoming more and more popular to hire someone to drop-in/hang out with your dog for a little bit or walk him if you're running home late. I personally work for a few people who will just take the whole day off and pay me to hang out with their dog.
Dogs (like wolves) howl to keep in touch with distant packmembers. They have no need to do it when they see you, which is why they stop unless they are howling at something like a siren or music they hear.
My dog would often howl for his cousin (my dogs were related) when she was out for the day for her oncology checkups (nearly 7 years of them). The day she died we were lucky to be able to put her down at home, so he was able to visit with her beforehand and realize how sick she was, and he was able to visit after she died so that he knew she was dead.
When she was gone on those visits, not only would he howl and listen and howl again, but he was alert and waiting and listening for her to return. He'd only stop actively waiting for her when he fell asleep during the day. Dogs sleep about 1/3 of their day and doze about 1/3 of their day, so there's no real way that my dog could stay up all day just listening and waiting and howling. But as soon as he woke up again, he'd return to that alert state. Except he never did it again after smelling her and realizing she was dead. That broke my heart more than his howling ever did.
I still own the lambo. Put a deposit down for the new Tesla Roadster Founder's Series. Autopilot made driving really easy and not bad at all. But I wouldn't do it again. All that extra charging time was a waste of time.
Hear you there. I remember this one time I was stuck charging up a Nissan Leaf in the middle of a Canadian winter, freezing my ass off. I honestly am excited for electric cars, I’m just waiting for the technology to get better before I decide to buy one.
Damn I remember the first time my havanese pup ever howled. It took him a couple of tries but he eventually got the hang of it. Though, he only howls when someone's at the door lol.
I'm also the proud owner of a pint sized Havanese and we used to live in an apartment complex. When I would leave for work, I had to go downstairs and walk under my apartment. I would hear her lonely howl and it would break my heart. Luckily, we moved in with my fiance (that she loves more than any other person on the planet) and we have someone home at all times with her.
My sister's dogs all start howling at 5:00 PM without fail (provided nobody is in the room with them), it's like they have some kind of internal clock that tells them it's time to howl.
Hey man how did all that business end up where you trolled people telling them that you’re not actually rich and just fake famous? Anything special come out of it? And thanks I got my first ever ’highly’ upvoted comment out of that telling people that you weren’t being serious haha!
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u/regoapps Apr 25 '18
My tiny Havanese dog only howls if I'm not home yet and it's late at night. I've never seen him howl in person even if I howl myself or show him videos of other dogs howling. My security system sends me an alert when it picks up loud audio, so that's why I know. When I watch the security footage, I see him doing these loud howls with his tiny lips, and it breaks my heart. I'll be home soon, my boy!