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Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever. How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?
by dvtrn 4y ago
Oh dear. Can’t say I’ve had that problem...really ever.
How many squirrels have you had to chase/escort out so far?
- andrewflnr 4y agoOh, I'm sure a squirrel outside is plenty to cause a problem. My dogs have historically not needed anything at all to actually be moving outside to trigger an endless barking spree.
- dvtrn 4y agoThe barking sure (though I set up my office in the basement because FAMILY LOUD and so when they go off, it's pretty well muffled and people on zoom calls don't even hear it), it was the "bringing a squirrel inside and then setting it loose in the house" part that I was wondering about, ha.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoI think you're confusing some awkward phrasing from the poster. They were taking the meeting with the CEO in their home office, and the squirrel was running around presumably outside causing the dog to bark. But I can see how you read it as thet were having a meeting and the dog brought a squirrel into the home office and ran around.
- smsm42 4y agoThat would be worse, but if we let the dog actually catch the squirrel it won't be running anymore... But we try very hard for that not to happen.
- smsm42 4y agoNo I meant it is running around outside. Often literally around because there are fruit trees in the garden around the exit from the house, and there's a big glass door where the dog can see outside. The squirrels learn pretty quickly that we don't want the dog to actually catch the squirrel (who knows what it has eaten and what diseases it may have), but to the dog it's hard to see squirrel just going about its business right under his nose...
- smsm42 4y agoYep. Especially given big glass doors and squirrels that quickly realize barking dog behind the glass door poses no danger whatsoever, so it's ok to proceed with their business.
- Veen 4y agoOne of the cats in our neighborhood likes to sit in front of our glass doors to antagonize our dog. The dog goes nuts and the cat sits there washing itself.
- technothrasher 4y agoI don't know about during a meeting, but my count of squirrels I've had to chase/escort out of my house currently stands at two. Although only one escort was successful. The other one I thought had left, but I found its desiccated body under the ashes in my fireplace about a week later.