Here is what I don't understand about dog owners

[saras]

29. Dogs that bark for more than a minute are being inappropriate

Typically dogs bark constantly when they are tied up and abandoned. Some people do this on purpose, because they think a dog that barks excessively at every trivial event is a good watchdog. They don't mind being woke up in the middle of the night because when they are they tell themselves the barking dog saved them from a bind-torture-kill sort of character.

And there are people who are just ignorant. They don't know anything about dogs except that they take care of themselves in the wild, and anyone can have one, and they do all kinds of stuff, from hunt bears dance on bicycles, so you can't possibly go wrong. Or they don't realize that you can't just put a dog on a shelf for months because you got bored with it, and play video games instead.

"Normal" dog barking gets a response, then it changes to something else. Long-repeated barking is neurotic, like chewing their own tails off.

So, your questions
Why? the feeling of security
Does it bother the owner? Not as much as fear.
Feel like an asshat? Yes, and proud of it. You got a problem with it? You want to coddle them criminals instead?