There's no specific age a dog is "supposed" to start barking. Some dogs bark as puppies, but others don't bark until later on. My own dog didn't bark for seven months, and then one day it all came out at once.
Dogs bark for many reasons. Sometimes they are expressing emotion like fear or excitement, and other times they bark just to pass the time -- it depends on the dog and the actual situation taking place. A dog's bark changes tone as it grows, just like human voices.
Many people wish their dogs didn't bark. Consider yourself lucky!
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I have a 12 year ameriacn bulldog I have never heard her bark Is there any way I can tell why she don't bark?
Never fear, she will bark soon! Our 4 mo old puppy never barked either until yesterday! Now it's her favorite new thing to do!Something will incite your dog to start barking and then you have to hope she will stop!
When our Great Pyrenees Puppy Bailey didn't bark we were worried. We were told that this breed would bark at everything during the night because they are nocturnal and usually do their guarding during that time. We would have to train her t not bark so much at little things. Well, not barking. Then one day at 8 months I was looking at her out the door and she barked at the neighbors. It was hysterical. She surprised herself and it seemed like she was looking for the sound. That went on for about 30 min. And as the story goes what was funny at the time became not so funny and training soon followed. Tiny hot dogs filled out frig because at 3am that barking and training was not very much fun. :)
How did you train your puppy not to bark all the time? Our puppy Lucy who is about 18 weeks old, never barked until yesterday. Then all of a sudden! She goes to the same spot in the backyard and barks her head off. I want to break her of the habit before it gets any worse. She barks pretty loud for a little puppy!
The funniest and cutest thing in the world is to see a puppy bark for the first time... poor thing will look around for what made the noise, not realizing that it was him :-)