Hot Rod will bark at noises, scares me to death! Then he gets Maggie going. lol. He usually is not a barker and Maggie has only barked 2x that I have heard. It was so funny the other day, there were at least 9 deer in our back yard and both of them went NUTS! They ran from the kitchen slider to to the sunroom and back. Lo and behold, they chased every single deer away. They were so proud of themselves.