'Woof' (hello) from Lucy to Pee Wee
Posted on 12/04/2005 10:53:40 AM PST by wjersey
I think it takes a very centered person to admit that in public :~D
I too, have panted at my dogs. :~D
Yeah, but the "whine" is staccatic.
LOL
My dogs know I'm weird. I suppose now, all of FreeRepublic knows it too!
:)
susie
I've had Labradors since 1967 and they all did that, also a border collie I had did the same and would "smile" upon command. I also did behavioral research with Beagles and had a colony of about 250 dogs. They, too, vocalized in that pattern. And finally, I did research with a pack of 80 wolves, in a field station setting, and they, too, made the same sound.
You certainly are the expert. I have owned probably 50+ dogs in my life including several Labs, Lab Collie mix, Yorkies, Jack Russels, Shelties, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Scotties, birddogs, Bassets, Bloodhounds and others including mixed breeds of all kinds and unless I just don't recognize the sound I have never had a dog that made it. Cats, on the other hand do it all the time.
I love my dog but you will never get me to lick it's mouth at any time for any reason! I'll just have to take your word for it.
A high-pitched, very rapid pant (it's really more of a silent ha-ha-ha-ha!) gets Shelley very excited, she starts leaping about and smiling. I haven't been able to get her to pant back yet.
A little growl on my part is our signal that it's o.k. to play tug o' war with the leash . . . only done while doing agility, you do it to jazz the dog up before going in the ring. Not that Shelley generally needs jazzing up, good grief, she's a lunatic anyhow. But this weekend it was very cold on Saturday but turned extremely warm and VERY humid on Sunday - and what with being a lunatic on Saturday on account of the cold, she was dragging on Sunday so I did tug o' war with her beforehand. She stopped and sniffed before she did the weave poles in the Standard class, and the judge counted it as a refusal, so no Q there . . . but she did great in the Jumpers-With-Weaves class, got her last Q for her Open title and First Place - which means a nice blue ribbon for me, plus a green Qualifying Score ribbon and a real bronze medal for her Open Title -- and a cute squeaky toy for her. (She much prefers the squeaky toy.)
That's quite a different sound, almost a glottal stop (can cats DO that, I wonder?) It's called "yammering" - that's where "Katzenjammer" comes from.
ping. I thought you might like this one.
Now I live alone with one nasty tomcat. Although he 'talks' to me often, I've never heard a cat vocalize they way you describe. Maybe we live in two different, parallel universes.
Hey, congratulations!! That's very cool.
susie
We have had 5 Maine Coon Cats and family members have had them too, all of them have made a chattering, sort of clicking sound combined with a low meow, when looking at birds. It is not a purring sound. I don't recall hearing other cats, just MCC, making it.
We have a half-Korat who does that also. Mother was fullblood Korat, father was good old American alley cat.
The dog is usually staring at the chipmunks, too, but she doesn't make any noise. She just lowers her head and stares.
Probably the reason that SHE has caught over a dozen of the nasty little things, and the cats have caught ZERO. But of course the cats aren't allowed outside on their own, being pedigreed Siamese (besides being much too old now to be allowed out without a chaperone.)
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