To the human ear, barking is normally unintelligible and noisy. Trying to understand what your dog is saying is often a confusing task. A dog that is part of a family identifies its owners as its "pack" and the sounds it makes are communication to that pack. The important thing to remember is it’s not just the sound of the bark that you need to pay attention to.
Dog communicates by vocalization and cadence. Vocalizations can be a bark, howl, growl, grunt, whine, whimper and a yelp. While cadence is panting, tooth snapping and a snarling or bite action. The sounds a pet dog makes is always a combination of these, mostly it is always paired with a bark. Among the vocalizations, it is the bark that sets the tone of what your pet dog is saying. A bark is always combined with several vocalizations and a cadence.
Dogs bark and go through these sounds for several reasons, knowing which each means will help pet dog owners distinguish between pathological, nuisance and normal barking patterns.
When greeting a member of its family, a pet dog grunts, whines, yelps, howls, growls and barks. It body language varies, from out-stretched crawling, exaggerated tail wagging, ears flat sideways and facial expressions. Dogs also tend to add actions such as lunging at you. When being submissive, which is characteristic for the owner, master or pack leader your pet may whine, whimper or yelp. The vocalizations and cadence is done with tail waging, ears back, head down, bashful looks and rolling over for a tummy rub.
Whining, barking, yelping, tooth snapping, growling and panting signal playfulness in a dog. These sounds invite you to play with him and expend some pent up energy. A playful dog often prances or semi-gallops and stops stretching its forepaws upfront and their hinds sticking up with incessant wagging of the tail.
A pet dog on defense whines, yelps, barks and growls. Their facial expression is fierce, teeth bared, lips curled, snarling and barking. A threatened dog acts similarly, but includes tooth snapping. A dog seeking attention or a caress whines, yelps, grunts and let's go of short high pitched barks. These movements are intended to get your attention and further enhance a particular response.
Physical distress in dogs limits their vocalization and cadence due to pain or discomfort. Sick dogs whimper, yelp, grunt and bark weakly. Rarely does a sick dog exhibit any action, but its eyes say it all- glassy, listless. When lonely or sad a pet dog howls, whines, whimpers and barks aloud. A dog use to socializing if left alone tends to get destructive just to get attention.
A pet dog exhibits its possessiveness or it being territorial by smelling the air, barking constantly in a loud pitch, at times snarling, fore paws dug into the ground while kicking backward with its hind legs and its chest outward.
A pet dog's way of communicating is complex as it is done in vocalization, cadence and action. The three, when combined, are indiscernible in difference to a person not used to dogs. The difference of meaning in the elements of communication of dogs is in the ways it is combined. Being able to interpret what your pet dog is conveying makes addressing the situation simply and efficiently.
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