The Siren Board

Cool videos!

I can't answer the ? why dogs howl when sirens are sounded.

However, I experienced that many times in the past.

I fomerly lived in Smyrna, GA(Atlanta area), which for many years tested its sirens(STH-10s..3 Whelens and couple of 2nd hand Tbolts added after I moved away) every Saturday at noon.

One of the sirens was about 3 or 4 blocks from my house; I could hear it inside with the windows closed.

My next door neighbor had 3 Gordon Setters in her back yard. Every Saturday when the sirens revved up to full speed the dogs would go crazy..they'd howl, howl, and howl.

When the sirens cut off, we could hear another couple of them winding down; the dogs would continue howling during the wind down..and STH-10s have a long wind down!

Robert Gift wrote:What does she do?
Are you close to the siren?
Is it an electronic siren?
If so, could it have an inaudible high frequency to which she reacts?

Well, for one thing I think the city should use Her as the siren, she sounds just like them, I live near 3 different types of sirens, a federal 3t22, thunderbolt 1003, and a 2001. She does a near perfect impression of the 3t22. I guess siamese cats naturally sound like that.

SirenEnthusiast360 wrote:

Robert Gift wrote:What does she do?
Are you close to the siren?
Is it an electronic siren?
If so, could it have an inaudible high frequency to which she reacts?

... She does a near perfect impression of the 3t22....

Aha! A dog that can howl dual-tone! As for my dog, a Schnauzer-terrier mixed breed, I've noticed that she howls more in the wind-down that in the wind-up or actual tone. Can anybody provide a theory on why this is?

not a dog, a cat.

yes it does hurt there ears, Dogs & other animals have "Enhanced" senses compared to us humans, our old dog ozzy would start howling long bofore we even heard the sirens wind up.

Its true I know I have a vetinarian friend <Ok I think I just murdered that word.

If you have seen my YouTube video of the Sterling siren in Silverton, Oregon, you know how high-pitched it is. The old part of town where the siren is mounted is in a bowl-shaped valley about 1/4 across, with houses on the crests of the hills east and west of the downtown core. After the siren sounds each day, you hear a chorus of howling dogs coming from all directions and from the hills that lasts for several minutes. Unfortunately, you can't hear them on the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erW7nwpvZqo

Mister_Penetrator wrote:My question is about dogs howling during siren tests. What is it that sirens make dogs howl and/or why do they howl?

They howl because they think they are hearing their alpha wolf ( the leader of the pack) is calling them and they try to respond. Sorry if this is a massive bump.

WolfSoul wrote:

Mister_Penetrator wrote:My question is about dogs howling during siren tests. What is it that sirens make dogs howl and/or why do they howl?

They howl because they think they are hearing their alpha wolf ( the leader of the pack) is calling them and they try to respond. Sorry if this is a massive bump.

I'm not trying to act like a Moderator here but the rules say you can't bump a topic unless you have useful information.

MKEsignal135 wrote:

WolfSoul wrote:

Mister_Penetrator wrote:My question is about dogs howling during siren tests. What is it that sirens make dogs howl and/or why do they howl?

They howl because they think they are hearing their alpha wolf ( the leader of the pack) is calling them and they try to respond. Sorry if this is a massive bump.

I'm not trying to act like a Moderator here but the rules say you can't bump a topic unless you have useful information.

Im pretty sure that is useful information related to this topic.