brock is vocal, he likes to use his voice to communicate to me, so hes definitely not silent! but he isnt yappy. oh and he sometimes gets barky in play, like if a dog isnt paying attention to him and he wants to play with it, but thats pretty common. he RARELY barks as an alarm, (like if someone is outside making noise, or at the door or whatever) and when he does use his "tough dog" (deep) bark, its when hes scared/unsure of something, and is warning it to back off basically. lol such as when he sees something weird that hes never seen before (i.e.- 10 garbage bags lined up along the freeway, a giant peanut on top of a car, a ladder attatched upright to the back of a truck in front of us, a single car in a dark parkinglot with a tarp over it, etc. oh! and a hang glider [or whatever it was!] in the lake at the dog park! lol).

alki barks in the beginning of play when shes really excited, or when shes happy to see you she will howl and do a few barks usually, and then she does alert barking, usually just a single "WOOF." when she hears something outside.

and neither of my pups bark when someone is at the door, they just run to it and get all excited cause they know its someone to pay attention to them! lol