Common Household Noises May Severely Stress Your Dog

Greater sensitivity needed about how dogs respond to certain sounds.

Published: January 20, 2022

Researcher Emma Grigg, PhD, and friend. One of her own dogs, Bea, is particularly afraid of the low-battery beep in the smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector, as well as the smoke alarm itself. “She begins to shake and hides behind my legs or under my desk,” Dr. Grigg says, “if she can’t get out into the back garden and away from the sound.”
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Microwave beeps, the chirps of a smoke alarm system when a battery is dying, cell phone noises, alarm clocks going off…these high-pitched sounds are just some of the noises commonly heard in your home that may leave your dog feeling extremely unnerved. Even noises with lower frequencies — the tumbling of a clothes dryer, a […]