Unique bark of alarm

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The elderly JRT has a special bark which he only deploys in response to one particular trigger. The bark is loud and is a mix of fear and strong disapproval, and he uses it a few times a year.

He unexpectedly barked the bark at the weekend just as I was bending over beside him - it didn’t half make me jump o_O! I thought that age must be catching up with him and that he was imagining things, it had been thundering for a couple of hours so it wasn’t the weather for his trigger to to be hanging about.

He was right! A hot air balloon was flying fairly low over the garden. It was not really the weather for hot air ballooning, I’d have thought, but the dog was vindicated! He hates hot air balloons.

Has anyone else’s dog got a ‘special’ bark?
 
DSB has a couple of different barks,one for the garbage truck,which is her favorite moment of the week!Another for greeting friends,another for people she doesn't know but might like and a very special one for the Ginger Cat,who she hates.Schnitzel von Krumm has only one bark but totally lacks volume control.Lucy only barks at snakes and then tries to kill them,she has been bitten three times and survived.
 
One of the Rotters does a 'wolf howl' every now and again, with her lips 'pursed', if she thinks there is an intruder - she's usually wrong! Her sister who is actually a much better guard dog, can't do the noise!
 
I spend a lot of time listening to lots of different dogs barking. It's generally quite easy to tell how they're feeling. They absolutely do have different barks for different scenarios the same way as we use our own voices in different ways.

Both of mine are vocal in very different ways!!
 
Mine have different stressy barks for the usual postman vs other delivery people and then they have a different bark altogether for when myself or husband are returning home. Sprollie does a sad bark howl if you leave him alone without the Sprocker. (Sprocker breathes a sigh of relief if you leave him alone without the Sprollie. Lol)
 
yes certainly, both of mine have special barks for different occasions

my favourite one for my girl is a rare one she uses when she gets shut in the barn by mistake, maybe once in a blue moon i hear it. It happens if i haven't noticed her mousing behind things and I lock up. In about 10min you will hear the most indignant horrified high pitched 'how dare you!' bark. She never uses it for any other occasion, her normal 'Danger-Will-Robinson' bark is much lower. This hilarious one is pure hurt-pride and horror at her treatment.

my favourite one for my boy is another rare one, if you throw something over a wall or a hedge and he has to go a long way around, like down to a gate and back up to get it, he will bark a rather cross 'wtf' bark as if to say, yeah, i want my stick/ball whatever but i see what you've done there human, goddamn you. Always cracks me up.
 
We have the 'don't ignore my toy, throw it' bark.
The "omg! Here comes the postie - I love him
!" bark - this one starts as the postie pulls into the drive, 1/4 mile away.
And then the "help there's a deer in the garden" bark.

Crazy border collie
 
My GSD is the most vocal dog I’ve ever met. High pitched single yap bark when he wants me to chase him and play, a slow woof, woo, woof woo when he sees something of interest, deep bark when being protective/territorial, fast bark when he’s excited and wants to go outside to play or smells a possum in the garden, single loud woof if I’m in another room and he needs to go outside for the toilet.
He also purrs as he’s falling off to sleep a low tone mmmmmm. And when his ball is stuck under the sofa it’s a quick humph sound which starts off as quiet but progressively gets louder the longer he has to wait for me to retrieve the ball.
He also is prone to sighing when fed up or I’m too busy working to pay him attention. That’s just part of his vocabulary.
 
I think GSDs do have to be explained to people sometimes though :p people jump or get spooked when my dog barks. I'm like 'oh, don't worry, he's just talking to/barking at me as I'm not paying him enough attention'. I saw a close relative at the weekend and she was exactly the same!!
 
My two never used to bark, until the terrier x started getting protective of me (not in a vicious way but noisily) and she started giving a bark of 'approach my mum if you dare'. She's now started barking whenever my husband comes home or even if my son spooks her, with the same deep warning bark. She doesn't bark any other time.

The Spanner found his voice at 18 months old and now barks for his dinner and barks when were in the car and approach wooded areas (living in Thetford forest means that's a regular occurrence). Its a very different bark to the protective doorbell bark
 
We all know when the neighbour's oodle needs a pee first thing. He starts with a very polite hoot anytime between 0630 and 0715. When this isn't answered he goes through his growing crescendo of his repertoire of barks until someone reaches him. I like to imagine them speeding through the house as he becomes louder and louder and more insistent.
 
We had a farm collie who had very specific barks. One for telephone ringing, one saying I want off my chain, then another I want back on again. Her best bark was her alarm bark, had a distinct growl in it so if you heard that you took notice. Felt quite safe with her around, never had one as good since.
 
Boss bitch has a one syllable peremptory bark which she only ever uses to call the others to order, and it always works. I wonder whether other people with a pack have also heard this? I never had until I got her and fourth dog arrived. She will also use it to stop bitch no2 from straying from the pack.
 
Our PJR has almost a polite cough bark to tell us she wants an early morning pee, a bark with an urgent edge to it that indicates the duck is not letting her get to the cat flap to come in and a hound of hell bark to say she can see/smell the fox in the garden.
 
When we had a burglar alarm fitted it had a break glass alarm by the front door, so if anyone broke the window to open the front door the sound of breaking glass would trigger the alarm.
The alarm started going off when we came home before we opened the front door. As it was newly fitted we called the company out to come and look at it. The engineer was very puzzled as the display was saying the break glass had been triggered.
I said I thought the dog barking in excitement when we got home might be triggering it, engineer looked at me as if I was insane but as he didn’t have a better idea agreed to try it. We all went outside leaving the dog in the hall. Walked down the path and came back to front door, knocked on the door and called dog, she started barking and the alarm went off. She was a Kerry Blue Terrier with an extremely high pitched excitement bark!
 
planete said:
Boss bitch has a one syllable peremptory bark which she only ever uses to call the others to order, and it always works. I wonder whether other people with a pack have also heard this? I never had until I got her and fourth dog arrived. She will also use it to stop bitch no2 from straying from the pack.
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When we went to a wonderful, dog friendly wedding this summer, the Rottie bitch gave a one syllable, deep bark, when some of the other canine guests were getting vocal, they all immediately went quiet ?
 
Hmm, my terrier lad is quite vocal but utilises whining and growling probably more than barking. He has a 'someone at the door' bark as well as a furious 'there is a hen in the garden' bark and 'Watch out, unexpected thing in the night' bark (usually a cat or fox crossing our garden and a very , very excited 'I'm going to catch it' bark when pursuing squirrels or bunnies at high speed, but prefers to use a variety of growly noises for things that initially get his attention. Whines are saved for 'there is a rat in the woodpile and I really want to get at it'!! I love how vocal he is actually having had some very, very silent greyhounds in the past. My retired hound would occasionally speak properly but a single hound, though lovely sounding is a bit sad to me!
 
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