http://umoja.co.uk/2005/12/22/unsettledly-in/ A Family Safari Sat, 19 May 2012 10:45:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://umoja.co.uk/2005/12/22/unsettledly-in/#comment-194 Jane and Alan Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:01:41 +0000 http://umoja.co.uk/2005/12/22/unsettledly-in/#comment-194 Our dogs in Fenland used to sleep outside, waking to howl with the dawn chorus. Then they'd snooze with a wakeful ear. Any strange noise was barked at. At that time in the 1980s, our bit of Fenland was rarely visited. Only tractors and sugar beet lorries, combine harvesters, Land Rovers. Now of course the rural isolation is ruined by new Londoners and their BMW space wagons. There was the dog kennels across the dyke. So David, you were used to normal doggy noises. The barking you describe is a very different noise environment. I am glad you have Alsatians to guard the yard, consuming any toy you leave out. It reassures me you are safe. Our dogs in Fenland used to sleep outside, waking to howl with the dawn chorus. Then they’d snooze with a wakeful ear. Any strange noise was barked at. At that time in the 1980s, our bit of Fenland was rarely visited. Only tractors and sugar beet lorries, combine harvesters, Land Rovers. Now of course the rural isolation is ruined by new Londoners and their BMW space wagons. There was the dog kennels across the dyke. So David, you were used to normal doggy noises. The barking you describe is a very different noise environment. I am glad you have Alsatians to guard the yard, consuming any toy you leave out. It reassures me you are safe.

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