What odd things make your dog 'talk'?

Cop-Pop

Cop-Pop

Well-Known Member
Joined
26 October 2007
Messages
8,666
Location
Glos, UK
Visit site
Church bells make Yellow Dog howl and if Im listening to music in the evening and he falls asleep he always howls in his dreams - never does it when I'm watching something so maybe he's singing in his sleep? He also howls whenever he sees the hunt as he thinks hes a hunting dog (he doesn't realise how much exercise in involved :p )

Bear used to growl at brass bands and make yipping noises at morris dancers :D
 
Henry revs up when he greets people, especially in the morning: 'woowooowoooowooooWOOOOOOOO', he really sounds like someone revving an engine!

He has also developed a naughty habit of woofing at my OH to 'throw the ball already!', as he has been introduced to the idea of a ball chucker, which he thinks is GREAT.:rolleyes:

Oh, and having to stop when he's raring to go brings out his most piercing squeaks :o
 
Last edited:
Ever since we lost Will Teal has got quite loud and vocal. Especially at the the door. Mine have always barked at the gate but I dont mind that.

Dylan barks his really loud rottweiler bark at kites and flags.
 
My Dobes dont make any unusual noises except when they dream, but our LH pup makes amazing noises. One day she sounded like a police siren and on another it was like mum,mum,mum,mummmmmy, we all burst out laughing, I have never ever heard anything like it.:D
 
Our old dog used to howl whenever you played any muscial instrument (hmm, not sure whether she was trying to say something about our musical abilities!). Our younger dog now is quite vocal, she makes all kinds of noises when you arrive in the house and also if you ask her "what do you say?" and those kinds of things. Our oldie dog will grumble and bark if you offer him something he does not like/appreciate - ie a cup of coffee or a glass of wine! Lol. I think that's how I taught him to speak on command actually. Had to find something that made him speak (at the time that was showing him a cup of coffee), it worked well. Nowadays, in is old age he can occasionally be a bit of one for begging and, if i have any wine at the time I shall offer him that. Ooh, the look i get from him is priceless! Then he will bark at me! Lol. He's a funny little soul - he gets the message then though that he's not going to get any food (he's almost deaf now see so telling him to go away dosn't work as well as it used to)
 
large sticks:D

her 'talking' is more or a loud angry whiney bark at the audacity of sticks being too big to pick up.
I'm talking telegraph pole sized sticks :D
She makes a good effort, gives up and then gets angry at the stick for making her give up :rolleyes:
 
betty barks at the doorbell.... and doorbells on the tv! she also barks when you say "whos that?"!

she can make hillarious noises when she's dreaming.... well that is when she's not snoring!! :p

my friend's dalmatian howls at the go compare adverts....!
 
Rocky makes a lot of snuffly noises in his dreams and especially likes to talk to his stuffed toys (not barks, just whimpers and noises).

If you make the same noises back at him he stops whatever he was doing and gets all excited (sitting up straight, ears pricked etc) waiting for something to happen. No idea what we are saying to him when we make those noises but he obviously likes it :D

Apart from that he is pretty quiet! No barking at visitors, the door, the cats etc etc. Only time he really barks is when he is on his lead and is frustrated wanting to get off to run around.
 
Whale Call........silly spangle! hehe!

Pix is very vocal though and especially in the morning when you first get her up she is very talkative and kind of howl-talks!

She barks a lot but we put that down to her lack of sight, its kind of like she's going "i'm here!!! don't tread on me damn it!!!"

:D

xx
 
Big dog (who never barks, no, not ever!) barked his head off at a stick that was visible in the stream one day. Thought he was being attacked until I rounded the corner and saw him doing his 'I'm about to run away from this extremely scary object' stance of legs back, poised to go. He has also begun growling in his sleep.

Bear rarely barks unless Zak sets him off and then it's a tiny bark, *look at me glance to check that you've noticed him bark* :rolleyes:

Zak squeaks at Amish carriages/horse on TV, dogs on TV, I want my 9 o'clock pig's ear moany noise, I want whatever toy Bear has moan/frustrated squeak.
 
T is amazingly chatty and always has been. Any time any of my family talk to her, she talks back, a low sort of grumble, rumble, whimble that shifts up and down as though she's trying to imitate human speech. If you sit down and chat to her, giving her a cuddle, it's honestly like she's trying to tell you all about her day (and, of course, how terrible it was in case that will get more cuddles/treats etc!). She barks when the front door rings, when there's a ball about to be thrown, and growl/grumbles when she manages to fall off the bed in the middle of the night too. Actually, she doesn't shut up much unless she's asleep!

A is very quiet in comparison. She'll yap if I pounce on the carpet and pretend to be a dog to play with her (yeah, I should probably have pictures of that!). But for some reason she goes absolutely mental when my housemate makes a "briiiiing" noise, imitating an old fashioned telephone. No idea how that started and she doesn't bark at the real phone. But the fake-phone, that's super exciting, needs to be barked at, run around in circles at, and thoroughly licked!
 
whisp&willow said:
betty barks at the doorbell.... and doorbells on the tv! she also barks when you say "whos that?"!
Click to expand...

That's funny - our old dog used to do that with door bells on TV and then she'd run to the door. The weird thing was though we never had a doorbell at the house so i have no idea how she connected the noise with someone being at the door? We'd had her since a puppy too so she'd never been in a house where they'd had a door bell. Odd.
 
My old JRT used to sing along to the Antiques Roadshow music - especially the high trumpet bits - it was hilarious because he didn't seem able to stop and carried on howling for ages.
 
Our gwp always 'squeaks' when we come home a kind of crying squeak, tail going like crazy..very cute! As soon as you start fussing him he grumbles and makes funny whale noises like he's talking! Gah I miss him already!(gone to live in Toulouse with my dad :( )
 
My mums bullmastiff barks and whines at all animals in TV... Be it a documentary, or bit part extra in a soap. He also goes round the back of the TV to find them.
When my labrador was a puppy, if she barked he'd go upstairs and run upland down the landing crying and looking for ways out of the house the wierdo - he got over it eventually.
My Labrador barks at anything new on our walks... It may be a skip in the road, or a traffic cone - she squares up, hackles up and barks lifting her front feet off the floor. She'll do this a few times as we get nearer then tries to act all cool when she realises it's not going to eat her.
If she's on her bed in the evening and thinks it's time for late night walkies, she stares at me whilst making low grumbling noises. If I say 'what' she leaps up, grabs her nearest toy and drops it on my lap.
They are funny :-)
 
my dobie makes a low 'rowf' sort of noise when she wants something, like if some tiny bit of biscuit has landed in her water dish, it must be sparkling clean water at home, yet on walks she will drink from the mankiest puddle.
She does the same if she wants something out of her cupboard, or a tripe stick.
she makes another funny growley noise if she wants stroked or some attention.
 
My black lab will bark when I close the curtain on the window beside where I sit at the pc. I think it started because my OH cleaned the inside of the windows (notice I said "my OH cleaned"... not me! :D) so the reflections were really clear and it startled her and started her barking.. I've kinda trained her on from that so that I only need to touch the curtain and look at her and she'll bark (and wag her tail furiously at the same time!) It's one of her party pieces... if we have company I make her "save me from the killer curtain"

She also barks on command to "Speak", "Say please" or if we "woof" at her... and she will whine if I ask "Ruby - whaaaaaat??"
 
The Vizslas like to take hold of you hand/arm/clothes/anything they can and make a "ahh" noise lol. Jacks just grump at everything :rolleyes:

Mum's new Viz pup, Flik, makes any kind of noise just to get attention lol
 
Yup Flora talks at ANYTHING! She has so many trigger words/actions I couldnt even begin to list them! She also has a very large vocabulary of different 'talking' sounds! :rolleyes:
 
Harmonica! The dogs will sing their hearts out for it! Discovered it when about to throw out an early learning centre one, needless to say it's been kept now!
 
Vizslak said:
Yup Flora talks at ANYTHING! She has so many trigger words/actions I couldnt even begin to list them! She also has a very large vocabulary of different 'talking' sounds! :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Must be a ginger thing!!!

We had a GWP (also a Flora) who used to "speak" which then turned into "say please" - great party trick to show her something and make her say please, until she'd sit and say please even when you didn't ask her :rolleyes:
 
echodomino said:
Must be a ginger thing!!!

We had a GWP (also a Flora) who used to "speak" which then turned into "say please" - great party trick to show her something and make her say please, until she'd sit and say please even when you didn't ask her :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Yes Flora says please without prompt...please I want that on the shelf, please I want my blanket, please I want the loo, please I want a walk, please I want to go to bed.......the list goes on...and on.....and on! :rolleyes: :p :D
Defo a ginger/hpr thing I know very few quiet gingers! You only have to look at the far off distant benching area and ring we get given every year at crufts (and then stand in there for 2 minutes with no ear defenders! :p) to get the jist of just how vocal the bloomin things are! LOL I'm sure we would never be allowed in one of the halls near all the action, we are always miles out the way! Last year I heard several members of the public walk down through the benches going, 'blimey its loud down here!' :D
 
Mickey my PRT barks at:
his ball when he rolls it (deliberately) under the sofa & it refuses to come out of its own accord
the horses when they refuse to throw his ball for him, even after he's carefully placed it at their feet
anything that isnt where it should be (think he has a touch of OCD, one day down at our yard one of my nephews had swapped a couple of chairs around and M wouldnt shut up till they were swapped back to their 'right' places...took me ages to figure out what had upset him :p)

out of our 27 chickens there is one cuckoo Maran whose 'cluck' makes him howl.
he also snores like an old man and has the most vocal dreams of any dog iv owned
 
The car brings on the squealy, "are we there yet" type noises

Rolling on your back in the grass brings on the satisfied grunty growly noises!

Losing your ball down the back of the sofa brings on BIG woof...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top