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To human ears, dog whistles only emit a quiet hissing sound. [6] The principal advantage of dog whistles is that they do not produce a loud, potentially irritating noise for humans that a normal whistle would produce and thus can be used to train or command animals without disturbing nearby people.
Noise-related phobia are common in dogs, and may be triggered by fireworks, thunderstorms, gunshots, and even bird noises. Associated stimuli may also come to trigger the symptoms of the phobia or anxiety, such as a change in barometric pressure being associated to a thunderstorm, thus causing an anticipatory anxiety.
[4] [5] In contrast, dogs bark in many social situations, with acoustic communication in dogs being described as hypertrophic. [6] While wolf barks tend to be brief and isolated, dog barking is often repetitive. [7] One hypothesis for why dogs bark more than wolves is that dogs developed vocal communication as a result of their domestication. [7]
I found one book (The Dog, David Alderton) that says that dogs & humans hear down to about 20 Hz and that dog whistles around 30Hz are "virtually inaudible to the human ear"; another book (The New Dog Handbook, Hans-J. Ullman), says dogs hear 70Hz to 100Hz and that they can hear "soundless" dog whistles "in the supersonic range of about 30,000 ...
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Preston City Council's noise service occasionally intervene over one-off events like a party or an alarm sounding – which generate a large number of complaints while they are actually happening ...
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Image credits: thegoodhypeofficial There are a lot of people who love dogs and likely keep 1 or 2 at home themselves. But have you ever thought about what life’s like living with several canines ...