Dog Owners, Do Subwoofers And Loud Noises From Your Home Theater Bother Your Dog?


I want to get a dog, a big one.  I have big speakers and a big home theater that's an integral part of my living space.  I also like to play my music loud sometimes.  The dog will have to live inside my living space.  Will this work out okay for the dog?  For any of you that own dogs that live inside the house, what is your experience?  My neighbor once complained that her cat used to go and hide when my home theater was too loud.

I am going to buy a 2,000 square foot church, gut it and live in it to indulge an audio and video fantasy.  It will be in a kind of remote area, and I feel the need to have a dog to augment electronic security for the place.  I will be living alone and I'm 69 years old. 

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You have to have an area where it can be quiet for the dog. Dogs have very sensitive hearing and they don’t tend to (ever) be comfortable around loud noise. It will, over time, make them messed up. In most cases. Their life/existence reactions are designed to be very strong in the presence of vibration and loud noise, and human screaming, etc.

Home theater, done loudly, for your dog, if the dog is kept or forced to be in that space, is akin to your pup being interred at Guantanamo Bay.

Repeatedly torturing a dog into submitting to zaniness that it can’t really understand and then it calming down afterward, like a soon to be corpse on a pike no longer wiggling as much---- does not count as ’settled in’ and ’used to it’. 🙂

If another person was in your life and space and they would not put up with such things in their space, then this goes double for a dog. So, if you want to be noisy, have a space that the dog can go where the noise is minimal or non existent.