Technically speaking, Basenji's don't bark, they yodel.
If you want to hear a real blood curdling dog voice, try the Shiba Inu. When they get going they sound like they're being bathed in battery acid.
Posted on 11/30/2009 8:17:15 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
1. Beagle
2. Collie
3. Doberman Pinscher
4. Finnish Spitz
5. German shepherd
6. Norwegian elkhound
7. Rottweiler
8. Shetland sheepdog
9. Terriers
10. Toy and miniature poodles
Source: “Planet Dog: A Doglopedia” (www.petvr.com/index.php/pages/noisiesyquietestdogs.html)
Everyone knows that TERRIERS of all types are incessant yappers, and should be at the top of the list.
Perhaps the list is based on decibel levels?
My elderly father adopted a female beagle a year ago. I advised against it - to the point of nearly getting angry. I told him they were too independent and too “stupid” for him to handle. I could not have been more wrong. This dog is heaven-sent. It is my Dad’s constant companion. It even waits outside the bathroom door when Dad is “occupied”. Quiet, clean, well-behaved. It obeys commands and even stays in the yard unleashed. It is simply the sweetest dog I have ever known. And I have had a lot of ‘em. Heaven-sent indeed.
ours makes lots of noises. but thankfully they are usually low whines/cries when he wants water or needs to go for a walk. he'll also pick up his water dish and drop it on the kitchen floor when he's thirsty.
and he only barks at other dogs when they are not fixed. he could care less about dogs that are fixed.
as far as walks go, good luck. his nose is permanently pressed to the ground and it is slow going. i am convinced he lacks the enzyme that tells his brain that he is full. he will literally eat anything. even after he has finished his food.
I had a gf once that had a beagle. The damn thing would howl and cry until she let him in the bed.
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Ohhhh, the replies I could make.
But I don’t know you that well, and I wouldn’t wanna offend you.
(lol)
Agreed. Had them as a child. Alert, but not noisy.
Yep, the same with Baron: if someone got near the house or car and he couldn’t get to them, the bellowing would be earthshaking. I have to admit that I used to take sadistic pleasure when some poor unsuspecting soul would walk by the front porch and he would suddenly leap up on the rail bellowing. The person would literally become airborne.
I think that list is ridiculous and I have no clue how data was collected to make the list. Dobermans are absolutely not barkers. They are known for silent attacks when used as K-9 dogs. You will hear or see them clicking their teeth, not barking. The yappiest dogs I’ve seen tend to be Yorkies and Poodles.
Had me and my friends laughing our butts off. Still do when we remember it.
No thanks on giving me a shock collar. I think too many people would enjoy pushing the button. :)
I know it! Try keeping a beagle on a farm. Lovely things I catch him eating. It's a little hard to diet a dog who will eat dirt. Can be quite serious, an acquaintance with a beagle has had to surgically remove socks on more than one occassion!
And yes, they are a hunting dog. That's how we ended up with ours... They will put that nose down and not pick it up till he have no idea where they are!
Technically speaking, Basenji's don't bark, they yodel.
If you want to hear a real blood curdling dog voice, try the Shiba Inu. When they get going they sound like they're being bathed in battery acid.
Yorkies are a close 2nd. My neighbor has 4 of them and they never shut up.
We do the police siren howl with our three dogs and get every dog in the neighborhood going, LOL!
My favorite is when door to door solicitors come to the house. You can see them walking up with their ABC (Always be Closing) look on their face and they ring the bell. I grab Aegis by the collar and he’s going mental and I signal to them that it’s “not a good time”. You can see their thought processes go from “Always be Closing” to “Well, maybe I’ll just try the next house”. LOL.
“I was picturing a dog that looks like a moose. What would bite your sister.”
It could be worse.
Sweden woman’s ‘murder’ committed by elk not husband
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395847/posts
A neighbor that has since moved had 2 toy Poodles. There was nothing they didn’t bark at. UPS, mailman, garbage trucks, you name it, they barked. I never understood it. If Poodles are so smart, can’t they figure out the mail man comes every day and isn’t a stanger? That garbage and yard trash is collected 3 times a week...every week? yap yap yap yap yap. Our dogs got so used to their yapping at things they shouldn’t yap at that they didn’t even bark when they began to yap at stupid things.
It didn’t really bother me much, more comical. Nice Poodles and their owners are close friends who now moved back up north. Miss them, not the yappers.
Yeah, that’s pretty much what I thought, but she isn’t on the list.
Correct... I have no clue why Dobies are on that list.
The worst by far that I have ever owned is my Malamute, and I have had several on the list. Unless that useless hairball is threatened with a slinghot he barks all of the time and will climb any fence in under ten feet in seconds. I resorted to using a 15” car wheel and tire tied to a twenty foot lead(which he pulls in bounces across the yard)to keep him inside. The only reason that I’ve kept him is the beautiful wolf type howl at the fire truck sirens. It makes the hair stand up on my arms!
Beagles smell. They have that hound dog odor. I would rather have barking which can be broken than smelly.
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