Barking E-Book

Kim Campbell Thornton

• Herausgeber: CompanionHouse Books
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Serie: Simple Solutions Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 23

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

An annoying canine habit that is often difficult to extinguish (or quiet), barking can often lead to further problems down the road. Barking discusses the whos and whys of dog barking and offers ways to understand and discourage the behavior. This little 64-page manual is a mini course in dog communication that all owners will profit from. The better an owner understands what makes his or her dog excited, anxious, or irritated, the sooner he or she can properly train and correct the dog. Without this Simple Solutions book, dog owners will never be able to read another book in peace!

Leseprobe

Ruth Strother, Project Manager

Nick Clemente, Special Consultant

Amy Fox, Editor

Michael Vincent Capozzi, Designer

Copyright © 2002 by I-5 Press™

Illustrations copyright © 2002 by Buck Jones

The dogs in this book are referred to as he and she in alternating chapters.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of I-5 Press™, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thornton, Kim Campbell.

 Barking / by Kim Campbell Thornton ; illustrations by Buck Jones.

p. cm. — (Simple solutions)

 ISBN 1-889540-81-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 eISBN 9781620080641

1. Dogs—Barking. 2. Dogs—Behavior. 3. Dogs—Training. I. Dog fancy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) II. Title. III. Series.

 SF433 .T52 2001

 636.7'0887—dc21

2001004823

I-5 Press™

A Division of I-5 Publishing, LLC™

3 Burroughs

Irvine, California 92618

Printed and Bound in Singapore

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Contents

Why Do Dogs Bark?

Who Barks and Why?

When Barking Becomes a Problem

Solving a Barking Problem

If You Want Your Dog to Act As a Watchdog

Be Patient

Bark-Control Devices

Puppy Preschool

Why Do Dogs Bark?

Dogs bark for any number of reasons. They bark when someone approaches their territory, in response to other dogs, and sometimes in response to noises, such as sirens. They bark at squirrels and other potential prey. Some breeds are born to bark; it’s in their nature. Often dogs bark in excitement, such as when they know they are going for a walk, taking a car ride, or getting their dinner. Occasionally, barking is stress related, a sign of separation anxiety. Sometimes dogs bark just because they’re bored.

Researchers have found that dogs almost always have a reason for barking. Barking is a complex means of close-range communication, and dogs make a number of basic vocal sounds. Their barks often express various emotions, such as loneliness, fear, distress, and pleasure. For instance, a stressed dog—say, one who’s left home alone—has a high-pitched, atonal, repetitive bark. Noisy barks are usually defensive in nature, while harmonic barks occur in play and other social contexts.

Just as people in different parts of the world have different accents and languages, different dog breeds have subtle variations in their types of barks. These variations are believed to correspond to dialects. And even the sounds people use to describe dog barks vary from country to country, from woof-woof in English to jau-jau in Spanish to wung-wung in Chinese. Is this because our dogs are speaking different languages, or are we simply not paying careful attention to what they’re saying?

Dog-to-English Dictionary