Do You Recognize your Dog's Bark?

[K9karen]

I hope this isn't a repeat thread..can't remember...sorry if it is..

I thought I knew this, but decided to become more alert about it.

Mz Logan's not a constant barker, but she has her own special language. She barks anxiously at the front door if she hears the mailman, or if somebody rings the bell she doesn't know. If she knows the person, her barks are shorter and she may start to whine.

If I'm watching TV and she has to go out or needs more water, she'll stare at me and bark once, like a demand. Stop, wait about 3 seconds and do it again. That's how I know what she wants.

She'll show no barking mercy to a squirrel. But a few weeks ago, during her last outie, she ran down to the back of the fence and growled and barked ferociously, which she rarely does. I hate when she barks at night, so I grabbed a flashlight, and saw a deer running from 2 back yards away. When Mz Logan barks like that, though rarely, I never ignore it. Once, in the middle of the night, she barked like that from inside. We all ran downstairs, turned on the porch light, opened the front door, to find someone running from my brother's car. Mz Logan scared him away. Turns out, our neighbor's car was broken into the same night.

Anyway, just wondering how you relate to your dog's barks.

[luvofallhorses]

They each have different barks that's how I know.

[Freedom]

I can tell which of the 5 it is that's barking.

They get a deeper, much throatier bark when they are "serious" as opposed to "open the door I wanna to through."

Drives my Dad nuts, if I'm busy in the kitchen, I'll call out, "Can you get the door, Lacey wants to come in!" He has no clue which one is which, hee heeeeee.

Marlin is the funniest. When he is out and wants in, he gives a "bark BARK!" and waits. You BETTER open that door instantly (of course this doesn't happen ) cuz next he starts the "woe is me whine:" I'm all alone, no one loves me, I've been left out here . . . " And that keeps on until we get to the door.

[Taz_Zoee]

Zoee barks at anything and everything. But I can tell when she hears something, or sees something. Then I can tell if it is just the "let me in!" bark.

Taggart rarely barks, so I know there's something up when he does bark.
Then Taggart also makes a chewbaca (sp?) sound when he sees me coming up the walk and is excited.

[lizbud]

I can tell which dog is barking most of the time. Both have loud barks
and each kind of bark means different things. There is the "someone is at the door" bark and there is a "there is another dog out there" kind of bark.

You soon learn to tell what's happening without ever actually seeing it for
yourself, just by the intensity & duration of the bark.

[wanwan1007]

Tip does have different barks as well. He has a higher pitched bark when he's inside and one of his toys has rolled under the couch and he can't get it. He has a constant serious bark when someone is at the door and he doesn't know them. He fusses and barks at me in the mornings when he wants to go for his walk and I'm taking to long to get it together (I'm not a morning person). He mostly talks to me though and then he'll throw a random bark in there for good measure.

[IRescue452]

The only dog who I've met that sounded exactly like Autumn was her brother Buster.

Of course I can tell them all apart because they're distinct breeds. Only Nay has a roo-roo, only Autumn has a scream, and Wallace has a raspy bark bark.

[Twisterdog]

I can tell which of my nine is barking without looking, and what they are barking at.

Freaks out my non-dog friends, who say, "How do you DO that?" I say they are my kids ... don't you know your kids' voices?

[AdoreMyDogs]

Cute thread

Neither of my two bark very much, but I can tell which dog is barking, and a bark at an animal vs. a stranger, as well as their other barks. Even though they are both big dogs and similar in size (Kersey is 75 pounds, Boone is 90 pounds), I can tell their poops apart from each other. Boone is a poop walker, and his are bigger. Kersey keeps hers in a neat pile, and hers are smaller. I can tell their panting apart, and I can tell their lapping up water from the water bowls apart from each other.

[K9karen]

How interesting and amusing! Thanks all! We're such good mommies and daddies! (And we recognize poops! We rock!)

[wolf_Q]

Killer barks the most by far, just because huskies really aren't barkers. He sounds pretty vicious when he barks at the fence, he's a great guard dog. His "guard dog" bark is very deep. When he's excited he has this little girly yippy bark, it cracks me up. He also does these growling howls when he's happy. He's dramatic with his yawns and grunts too.

Nebo really only barks when I ask him to speak. It's a pretty deep intimidating bark. The rest of the time he doesn't bark at all, he's very quiet. If you mess with him (hugging, etc.) he does a lot of growling, he's pretty vocal that way. He growls quite a bit when playing too.

Keva is the most vocal of the huskies. If she wants something (like dinner) she's not afraid to howl at me to let me know. She will sometimes bark at random strangers too. She barks at the neighbor whenever he goes out to feed his dogs. She used to bark her deep, guard dog bark at him and wouldn't shut up. Now he tosses some food over the fence so her barking starts out guard dog then quickly turns into her "I want food" howl. She also has a "bathtime song" it's a very unhappy and loud song.

Skya is also very quiet, but when she does bark it's hilarious. Every thing about that dog is weird. I'm not even sure how to describe it, but it's a strange bark/howl thing like "ra ra ra roo." She doesn't know how to howl either, she screams. If you get one dog howling, the whole pack will join in (even Killer) and its pretty easy to pick out each dogs voice, especially hers. If she wants something she makes this high pitched yip/growl...it sounds like a puppy noise.

But yes, to answer the original question, yes I always know which dogs bark (or howl or other strange noises) is which.