When one of our three Dachshunds bark, they all bark. My wife hates it. I love it.
I consider their barking to be a deterrent - to strangers, to would-be intruders, to anyone who might lurk around our neighborhood. She just considers it unwanted noise.
I wonder what she'd think if she heard Daz, a German Shepherd Dog that recently put himself in the Guinness Book of World Records for the loudest bark - a hefty 108 decibels. That's about as loud as a chainsaw.
And I'm sure she'd love to hear the 30 dogs that set the record for loudest collective bark at the same time during a competition in a north London park. Their bark mark was 115 decibels, akin to a jet plane taking off.
"He is the loudest dog in the world," Peter Lucken, Daz's owner, said, "but I don't really notice how loud he is."
I say congratulations to the winners. My wife says, "Shhh."
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