Even the best trained dogs sometimes growl at you. This can cause some fright in owners and others who are growled at. Why is it that your dog continues to growl even though it isn’t an angry dog. There’s actually an explanation for this. The article below can help you understand your dog and their growling better. Check it out!

Pets: When your dog growls at you

Birch is sitting next to me as I write this, waiting for The Word. It is a marvelous word and makes life worth living, and so he waits.

Meanwhile, a little biography. Birch is a rescue dog, which sounds like he was held hostage in a bank robbery and I snuck in through a ceiling vent and said “Here, boy,” dangling some jerky.

No. He was a shelter dog, brought up via the pipeline that transports Southern strays to good homes in the cold North. When we met in the cold cell he was a sweet, mild, easygoing little pup.

Because he was sick.

Birch came with every possible dog problem in the book, from tick-borne blood grot to parasites to the dreaded heartworm, which we are extirpating in a yearlong course. Once modern medicine did its trick, he sprang to life, and revealed his true nature:

The insatiable eater of things. All the things.

He ruined a throw pillow I hated, and I couldn’t be mad. “Birch! Bad dog, in the sense that you oughtn’t chew pillows! But! I understand! The pattern was banal and the colors were boring! Now I can throw it away! But you should have asked my wife! Bad dog!”

I put the pillow in a closet, thinking it might be sewn up and returned to the sofa. A month passed. One day the closet was open. He found it, and spread its fluffy foam guts all over the floor: We meet again, my friend. En garde!

I hadn’t cleared the pillow disposal with my wife, so I had to restuff it and hide it again. Birch trotted off and found a fragment of a reindeer horn he’s been working on for most of fiscal 2018. The other day he cracked that thing in half, and it sounded like a rifle shot; for a moment I thought the reindeer’s relatives had hired some ace Finnish sniper to seek revenge.

I found the cracked horn and marveled: How did you not bust a tooth on this thing? I bit down on a jot of bone in a hamburger in 1981 and cracked a molar, had a sharp point I worried with my tongue for half a decade, then got a crown, which fell off a few years ago, and you’re just happily cracking antlers with no ill effects.

Originally Reported on Star Tribune

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