The poodle did it because he heard another dog yelping in distress. The neighbor's dog tried to jump the fence and somehow got her rear paw stuck in the chain link, so she was dangling by that one leg. Rescuing her was not fun, but she wasn't seriously hurt.

or sometimes, the sound of humans making music that sounds like howling.

yodeled..er, howled...every time my husband yodeled. It was hilarious.

He never howled in key, but he sometimes caught the rhythm

#2 Sirens.

Both my wolfmix and my shepherd mix would howl similarly (though I did not own them at the same time, ie separately) for either situation. Heaven forbid, the neighbors told me, should he be lonely when sirens were near by, that apparently became very loud and melancholic.

around us - ours included - seem to harmonize their howls when the sirens go by.

Almost always when a siren such as the tornado sirens or a fire truck/ambulance is going off. One did it once when they were redoing the siding on our house and using a saw to cut some oak lumber and it made a really high pitched whine.

So I think it's probably a response to certain tones, brings out some primal instinct about howling.

be what inspired the dog.

He's about 4 yrs older than in this pic. When I start, he gets sort of anxious with me going on, until he finally joins in. Note: I don't do this very often, hardly at all. Really. Mostly to show visitors.

Plus, somebody who acted like a connoisseur about dogs seemed to look down on howling dogs, sniffing that genuine Lhasa Apsos *don't* howl.

We live near a fire station and if she's outside when the truck goes out on a call, she howls along with it. Why, I have no idea!

They are not all at the same house but they all howl in unison, and the weird part is that they ALL stop on a dime at the exact same time, it just goes silent suddenly.

My dog has never joined in. She doesn't even seem to notice it somehow.

They will start howling and then they "turn off" like a switch, all six of them.

It really is comical, if a bit unearthly. He puts his nose up in the air, whimpers a bit, and then starts the most wild howling. It's hard to get him to stop. So I don't do it very often. Blood-curdling, if I didn't know it was a very sweet doggie doing it.

If there was a siren going by, or the owners were listening to something that was at a high, warbling pitch, most dogs would howl.
Dogs will also howl if they've been left alone too long or if they're hurting. It's the way they call out to their pack for support and/or comfort.

Did a firetruck or ambulance go by recently or is your neighbor or a member of their family that might be the dog's "alpha" gone this weekend?

Haele

one is for people and the other is for critters. The howl is for critters.

to each other about their take over plans.

that we got as a rescue when she was almost five years old did that.

First time we heard her it was chilling.


They all actually howled, but she sounded almost exactly like a wolf.

My two girls now (GSDs) like to howl. We have "howl fests" every so often

and my current dogs both howl with sirens. Fortunately, we live out in the woods now and have few neighbors and rarely hear sirens.

That's when something is really amiss, my dear Watson.

We crate him at night and he's happy until we get up to make coffee and then he howls as if he's been left on an ice floe. My son says he's crying "WHYYYYYYYY??? WHYYYYYYYYY????"

I'll point out that he's a completely spoiled baby who goes to work with my husband every day and spends very little time alone.

well, that is my theory

cut /track/ segment/ file/ whatever marked "wolves howling."

Then see what your pooch does. My prediction: hilarity.

I believe a hound, such as a beagle, is more apt to howl than some other dogs. But of course wolves and coyotes howl also. Some croon more than actually howl.

because he was locked outside away from the other dachshund mix that was in heat (lonely). Sounded just like a wolf. Maybe it has a mating call component?