My Husky/Shephard loves to come close when recording... He'll even sleep and dream with the whines and howles to the beat of the tune... He'll do the howles while he's awake during a performance as well...
But get a mic 5 feet from him, forget it... not a peep!
Something about a very heavily reverb'd howl when he was a pup playing over... and over... and over... and over... a.n.d...o.v.e.r...