Since the dogs had access to the back yard all day through a dog door, and if Pippin were in fact barking all day, we decided that the right thing to do was to purchase a sound-activated recorder and get to the bottom of all the noise.
A quick trip to the local Radio Shack was yielded just the bounty. A clever little contraption that didn't record unless noise was detected.
On the recorder's first morning with us, we set it out on the patio table around 6 a.m. Around 10 a.m. my husband got the first of the daily text messages. "He's been barking for two hours," they wrote.
We got home and immediately checked the recorder. Just over 41 minutes of recording over a 12 hour period revealed an occasional bark from Pippin, totaling no more than eight minutes. It mostly picked up birds, traffic and other neighborhood dogs. Nothing near two hours worth, however.
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