micki76, not to worry! Let 'em bark! I was waiting in line one evening at Home Depot, when I realized the "yip! ... yip!" I'd been hearing was coming closer. In a nice woman's cart were two Westies, yipping their way merrily around the store. She got in line behind me, and I petted the dogs, asked names, and chuckled with her about Westies being "talkative."

She said, "Yup! If you can't stand barking, you can't get a Westie, that's for sure!!!" But no one I saw objected to them at all, (not to say some weren't thinking 'Egads! Glad they aren't mine!') so maybe yours'd be welcome, too!