So Santa came on top of the neighborhood fire engine last night (like he does every year), with flashing lights and sirens and loud speaker ‘Ho, ho, ho,’ which is great for all the little children (and big one’s too), but really really upsetting to many of the dogs.  Sophie never heard something like that before and was so upset she cried and tried to get away from it. I had to hold her close and finally got her to lie down with me on the floor.  But then it came back around the block and she started all over again.  Lulu was OK it seemed, but she stayed close too.  C was across the street dog sitting Mojo and said he wanted to eat Santa.  I remember it used to really bother Squash too when he was alive.  He would howl.  There must be a certain db that the sirens put out that is really painful to the dogs ears.  I wonder if they can control the siren levels and change them so that dogs don’t get hurt like this?  Sofie has incredible hearing.  She can hear animals outside and trucks way before Lulu can (or so it seems).  A dogs hearing is such an incredible thing.  I know about there smell ability being 25X ours, but I wonder about there hearing.  I recently met a deaf puppy at the store, and then another, and started to realize how hard that would be for them.  I don’t know what is worse for a dog, losing sight (Squash was blind) or losing hearing (Nikki was ultimately both deaf and blind).  Do they lose scent with age too?   Well next year on Fire Truck Santa night I think I will take the dogs on an outing somewhere away from the sirens.  2 days until Hanukkah and 7 until Christmas, so there are many sites and sounds of the season that we encounter.  Wishing everyone a happy whatever you celebrate and a merry new year!  Just another dogdaz morning. ❤

Waiting for Santa.