Whenever we’re looking to rent a holiday apartment we enquire if the cooling system is a ceiling fan and if it’s the only option, we go elsewhere. This is because we have a silly little poodle who hates them and will bark furiously until the fan is turned off.
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I love them and the ones we have are all practically silent (DC) and are reversible. Horses for courses on design but we get ours here (in France) from https://www.ventilateurplafond.fr/…but they are a Spanish company and sell pretty 
stuff.
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It’s probably producing a noise only the dog can hear. I think bicycle wheels turning do the same as I’ve never ridden past any farm (and a lot of houses) where there’s a dog without getting barked at. If I stop and get off the bike, the barking stops.
Does Gigi know you call her that! 
No, she’s French!
The other week we were walking down a street in Cadaques, when she stopped suddenly and began barking very aggressively. After a moment of confusion, we realised that she’d spotted a large ceiling fan inside a bar…
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Is it only when the fan is in motion that she reacts to them? And does she bark at éoliennes ?
Only when the fan is in motion; she doesn’t bark at éoliennes (there aren’t any around us), but she doesn’t like the pylons of the Millau viaduct which we cross frequently - have to cover her eyes when we’re on it!
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Same with a friend of my parents. He was the Chair of the local Burma Star Assoc, of which my mother and father were both recipients. When my mother suggested taking her car for him to drive her to visit my father in hospital, he refused. “We’ll take mine” [not Japanese]
Ironic really, my parents both being Burma Star. My mother was in the Q.A’.s and was in the team that went into Changi to bring out the p.o.w.'s
As we walked up to a house that my parents subsequently bought, the first thing my mother said to the owner, as he approached, was not “Hello” but “You were a Japanese p.o.w., weren’t you.” He had been. Twenty years later it was still evident to my mother.
Their house in Somerset was replete with Jap products - TV, radio, gizmos of all sorts, as well as a series of Nissan cars.
To top the irony, when visiting Singapore some years ago I went to the site where our block of flats was when we lived there in the '50’s. The flats had gone and a new ‘tube’ station was being built on the site - by a Japanese construction company.
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How incredibly tedious …
I had ceiling fans in Spain. Excellent things. Very good value at +/- €80 from L/Merlin. Two of them had a switch to reverse the spin. This is reputed to improve warmth in a room that has heating running.
I was 
of this so ran tests, with temp sensors at sitting-on-the-sofa height and + 150/175 cms above that. It’s true. It was warmer at sofa level with reverse spin than with normal spin.
The fan in the sitting room had no switch but it was easy to turn the blades over - two bolts per blade, teeter on step ladder. Job done for 4 months.
It night, on slow speed, my bedroom fan was silent. But what a difference to a good night’s sleep when the night time temp was frequently 30C in VLC city centre.
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So instead of putting the clocks back you put the fans back? 
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Mme Porridge has the best taste. I’m with her when it comes to hideous ceiling fans. They belong in the past.
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