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[–] FlyingSquid 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Any good dog owner pretty quickly learns what a dog's bark means most of the time. Also, I'm not sure a bark alone without the body language to go with it is really all that helpful. I can tell so much more from my dogs' body language including things like when they're looking for a place to poo on a walk as opposed to just walking around and sniffing stuff.

You also would be a lot less likely to know that one of my dogs is super angry if you didn't know that her hair stands up like she has a great big stripe down her back when she does.

Body language is so important with a dog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because that's how a lone dog learns to communicate with you. That doesn't mean that their bark doesn't communicate things you cannot understand..

I would imagine this will eventually show the socialization of dogs. I can't imagine my dog, who was rescued from Hurricane Harvey in some woods in Oklahoma has many distinctive features in her barks. She would have only briefly knew her mother, otherwise she has only grown up around humans and cats.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But if a lone dog's body language is unique to the dog, wouldn't that also be true of the bark?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I am sure its vastly different than other dog's barks, just like the body language is.

But why would they use the bark as communication, if they communicate fine with body language? It's pretty obvious my dog is aloof to other dogs when we are at outings, she wants to join in but can't figure out how to act more often than not.

Then there are the other dog's who do seem to communicate, verbally and else wise.

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 7 months ago

I think it's a combination of things, barking and body language and possibly other things we can't detect.