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Yeah, maybe not so deaf
Sep. 28th, 2025 11:15How do you tell whether a dog can hear or not? I think they make sharp noises out of his sight to look for reactions. But in a very non-reactive dog the calm disposition and lack of reaction to external stimulus looks like poor hearing.
Beaux had a yeast infection in his ears which I'm taking care of. Almost gone. AND, he just does not react. If I was as calm as he is I'd still be married to my first wife.
Toby heard something last night. Toby heard me open the garage door from all three rooms away. He's got excellent hearing and yips at the sonic level of a jet when he wants to. Last night he heard something he didn't like and I woke up to major yipping. Whatever caused the problem definitely heard it. I called out and got him to calm down and come back to bed. During all of that time Beaux had not moved.
I quietly said: "Beaux, you OK?" He raised his head, looked at me, and went back to sleep.
He was raised in an outside kennel with 64 or so other dogs. Noisy all the time. For some reason he just developed the ability to screen it all out. I'm pretty sure he can bark if he wants to. He chooses not to so far.
My guess is his hearing is fine. Not to the level of Toby's who I think can hear a door close three houses away. But normal fine.
Meanwhile, I've been killing wasps. Dana got stung a couple of days ago opening the umbrella we have outside. I'll never open another one without imagining wasps flying out of it. Natural location for a nest.
For some reason this year has been crazy for wasps. And/or yellow jackets. No matter. I wiped out eight nests today hidden in places under the soffets and, turns out, in the unoccupied chicken coup. Killing probably 50+ wasps. This is the place where Buddha and I diverge. That and fire ants. They can go be part of the ecology somewhere else. If they come around here, they are fair game and I've got the chemicals.
I just bought two more cans of that long range spray. It is highly effective. I've not been stung this year but Dana does the yard work that results in her sticking her hand in bushes and such and she's been stung several times.
All this in addition to the quarterly pesticide program we use. According to Gemini:
There appear to be more wasps in 2025 due to exceptionally favorable conditions created by a warm, dry spring and a hot summer, which allowed more queens to establish larger nests and colonies to thrive.
I'm guessing that the season will extend for the rest of October since we'll still have warm weather until then. Or longer. Thanksgiving at the beach?
Beaux had a yeast infection in his ears which I'm taking care of. Almost gone. AND, he just does not react. If I was as calm as he is I'd still be married to my first wife.
Toby heard something last night. Toby heard me open the garage door from all three rooms away. He's got excellent hearing and yips at the sonic level of a jet when he wants to. Last night he heard something he didn't like and I woke up to major yipping. Whatever caused the problem definitely heard it. I called out and got him to calm down and come back to bed. During all of that time Beaux had not moved.
I quietly said: "Beaux, you OK?" He raised his head, looked at me, and went back to sleep.
He was raised in an outside kennel with 64 or so other dogs. Noisy all the time. For some reason he just developed the ability to screen it all out. I'm pretty sure he can bark if he wants to. He chooses not to so far.
My guess is his hearing is fine. Not to the level of Toby's who I think can hear a door close three houses away. But normal fine.
Meanwhile, I've been killing wasps. Dana got stung a couple of days ago opening the umbrella we have outside. I'll never open another one without imagining wasps flying out of it. Natural location for a nest.
For some reason this year has been crazy for wasps. And/or yellow jackets. No matter. I wiped out eight nests today hidden in places under the soffets and, turns out, in the unoccupied chicken coup. Killing probably 50+ wasps. This is the place where Buddha and I diverge. That and fire ants. They can go be part of the ecology somewhere else. If they come around here, they are fair game and I've got the chemicals.
I just bought two more cans of that long range spray. It is highly effective. I've not been stung this year but Dana does the yard work that results in her sticking her hand in bushes and such and she's been stung several times.
All this in addition to the quarterly pesticide program we use. According to Gemini:
There appear to be more wasps in 2025 due to exceptionally favorable conditions created by a warm, dry spring and a hot summer, which allowed more queens to establish larger nests and colonies to thrive.
I'm guessing that the season will extend for the rest of October since we'll still have warm weather until then. Or longer. Thanksgiving at the beach?