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

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.

teo_audio,

Thank you for your info and advice.  I'll build him a doghouse outside to go to when I plan to play loud music or loud movies.  I'm excited about this, I haven't owned a dog in sixty years and I loved having a dog as a young boy.  Since growing up, I've never lived in a place before that was suitable for owning a big dog.

No DOG for 6 years? I’d be insane. I’m a dog person, so are ALL of my friends. No DOG no friend.. If my dog doesn’t like you. I know, I don’t.

My dog leaves the room if it gets to loud. They (a dog) may show signs of being gun shy. I've been sensitive to "ONE" that was given to me, that was just his way. He was from the pound. A Pound dog.. I had him the BEST 12 years of his 16 year life. I’ve found they are smarter than most creatures, I encounter.

A horse is right there too. I love a spirited horse. Like a big ol dog with horse shoes. 

BTW if it's to loud for the dog it's to loud for you too.. :-)

My dog loves listening to music. He will actually lay between the speakers in the sweet spot.

But I don’t include him in the home theater because it is in the basement, and he hates the sump pump...

ozzy

Our 3 dogs (a Chihuahua, a Yorkie, and a Shih-Tzu) have done okay with the occasional loud 5.2 of “Avatar” and a few others…actually seemed bored with it all. Recently we watched a documentary about wolves though and they all reverted to their primordial canine-ness when one of the wolf puppies started howling. 😂  Darn near a “doggie barbershop quartet” there for a few minutes!