A Question For You

My girls are very different from each other, vocally.  Miko hardly ever barks - just when she’s really excited or nervous about a noise or something (like a watchdog), but Meimei is a barker.  She barks at everything. To get attention, because she’s excited, because she wants something, because a breeze in the wind crossed by….

I think it’s a personal thing, maybe not just a girl thing

Charlie, our visually impaired pug, does the same type of barking (“talking”). He NEVER barks when the doorbell rings or at the birds (as his brother, Toby, does)... only when I am preparing their meals, we are eating, or when trying to coax his brothers to “rumble”.

Perhaps… it is related to Luna’s visual impairment?

I think it might be a little Luna thing.  Adrian doesn’t bark at all when she wants some of what we’re eating.  If we’re at the table, she stands on her hind legs with her front paws on my leg and stares at me until I “fall for the fur.”  If I’m snacking on the sofa in front of the TV, she’ll sit facing me (about 6 inches away)and staring me down on the sofa with her front legs draped across my leg until, once again, I “fall for the fur.”

The only barking from both of them is when they’re sitting on the landing and can see outside.  Then when anyone walks by, the howling begins.  They both think they’re part coyote!

Rocky occasionally barks when he smells something absolutely irresistible (like chicken).

My little girl, Chelsea, would bark at strangers walking by the house, anything with a heavy engine (garbage trucks and vacuumm cleaners especially), the doorbell and thunder.  Otherwise, she was really quiet, and would just stare at me when she wanted something.  She would also sit in front of the pantry door and just stare at it hoping it would open.

Thanks everyone for sharing their thoughts and experiences.  It has been very helpful and has allowed me to delve a little more deeply into the mind of Little Miss Luna!

My fond memories of Apple.

Apple used to stand on her hind legs with her front paws clawing on my legs if she wan something from the table. she will let out a tinniest bark if she had been waiting long enough without response from me.

Apple would bark at strangers too, three barks only, n then she will lose interest. Cute!

my Nic Nic, she will bark at everything since she is a loud minpin.

I don’t have a little girl but Frank is very very vocal.  Not just barking either!  He whines and mumbles and has something to say about everything.

My Sweet Pea barks at some of the people she sees, from the balcony. No rhyme nor reason as to whom she’s decided is in her territory. In person, not a peep from her. I’ve noticed her parents are pretty much the same.

Indoors, she only barks one or two sharp barks, for extremely favorite foods.  Sweet Pea becomes absolutely frantic for KFC (meat, no skin, o’course).