From his crate rest, Tristan continues to Protect the Home by announcing his intention to chase away the fireworks. Very, very cutely. (Wrawoowooowoooowoooooo!) Such a responsible, hard-working young man.
The Spaniels could tell I was getting dressed in Off-Farm clothes; lately they're more concerned when I leave, so I told them "It's Auntie Vet. Auntie Vet is coming." They immediately switched from "you're LEAVING us!!" behaviors (slinking around, clinging to me, and sitting sadly in their crates) to excited anticipation behavior (watching out the window, Excited Tristan Noises, and rowroos).
Guinevere has at least three different songs of sorrow, one of anger and injustice, and an infinite supply of mumbled cuss words. Songs of Injustice are now occurring only three or four per day 😭
[Video Description: It's a dark room, focused on a dog kennel in the darkness. Guinevere the cocker spaniel howls in sorrow, unsure why she is on crate rest. She still eagerly runs into her crate, she settles when she is not howling, but her Short-Attention-Spaniel means that she occasionally forgets and needs to Sing the Songs of her People for a few minutes.]
[Video Description: Guinevere, a red cocker spaniel, lays on a bed facing the camera. She rumbles expectantly. A finger boops her nose, and she excitedly row-roos; this is repeated several times. Finally she can't contain her exuberance and bounces toward the camera (to boop my face herself).]
[Video Description: Guinevere, a red cocker spaniel, lays on a pillow at the foot of a bed. She throws her head back and rowroos, flipping one of her ears upside-down. She looks cheerfully enthusiastic about something (what, Gwyn, what??) She rowroos again.]
We heard a siren in the distance (usually out here, emergency vehicles just use lights). Gwyn started howling along, and Tristan joined her. I don't think I have ever heard him howl before. The first, somewhat raspy howl is Tris, most of the rest of that is Gwyn's familiar row-roo.
(I didn't go out to the other room, because I didn't want to interrupt them, so you just get a nice view of the wall and the tacky-tacked "spider" toy.)
We are working on "Sing Melodious." Gwyn gets excited and barks sometimes, she gets excited and rowroos sometimes. I'm trying to encourage the rowroos, but if she gets really worked up she does start barking excitedly. So we don't do this more than twice in a row (or it becomes counterproductive) and only when she starts out reasonably calm.
I'm hoping eventually she'll be able to interrupt excited barking to rowroo instead, with just a reminder to "sing melodious.'