[nagdu] Barking

Thu Oct 8 06:39:16 UTC 2009

One day, a lady who had a guide dog was visiting my school.  She went to an
assembly  with me.  Part of the assembly was a play in which one of the
actors was sneaking around in a slightly sinister way.  The lady's dog
decided that he did not like it and barked at the actor.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Wayne Merritt
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:11 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Barking

Greetings. my first guide, a yellow Lab, only barked when he saw something
that disturbed him or when he was worried about something, such as watching
some family members carrying a chair through a door, or when someone on the
streets of New York stared at us during training. My current guide,a
shepherd named Gucci, doesn't bark all that often. In her puppy profile, it
said that she will often whine or bark or yip if she needs to go outside.
This has proven to be the case several times, especially early in our home
time last fall. After awhile though, it got hard to interpret her wines and
whimpers to mean if she needed to go out, or if she was expressing her
opinion. These days, when she expresses her opinion on something, I reply
with something like, "Exactly, I couldn't have said it any better," or,
"Right, you said it."

On barking though, she has been known to bark or yip when I'm playing with
her. I can usually tell the meaning of these noises though, since they sound
more high pitched and I expect that she's saying something like, "Okay, come
on, stay still so I can get to you. Stop moving around!" We've developed
several games at home you see. She has also been known to give a low woof at
night whenever we're staying with family or have family over and she sees
someone come through a door or walk down a hall. Even though she knows who
they are and can probably tell who they are, being at night and totally
dark, I've been told by said family member that it's quite startling to have
this shepherd make the unexpected low woofing sound. I've tried to correct
her when I hear them, but sometimes I dont' catch it when it happens, and
correcting her really hasn't made much of a difference. I dont' think that
this is a problem though. It's actually kind of comforting. If someone were
to ever come into my room or apartment unexpected, they would have to get by
the woofing shepherd, which doesn't sound like a bad thing in these weird
days.

Wayne and The Gooch

On 10/7/09, The Pawpower Pack <pawpower4me at gmail.com> wrote:
> Annalisa,
>
> My dog also vocalizes in her dreams.  My problem is that I can't hear 
> it so it just goes on and on without me knowing.  Then after the 
> meeting is finished, lots of people come up and tell me about it and I 
> would be totally clueless.
>
> Laveau, being a Doberman is more mouthy than your average lab, I'd 
> imagine.  She barks or makes a kind of rumbling noise when she's 
> surprised at something, like when she saw a horse for the first time.
> She also barks sometimes at home.
>
> My seven year old golden Mill'E is the mouthiest dog I've ever had.
> She barks when she plays, she grumbles and mutters to herself when she 
> does tasks for me in the home like picking up objects or alerting me 
> to sounds.  Her muttering increases if she has to do a repeated task, 
> like say pick up a box of dropped paperclips, or if she is emptying 
> the dryer of an especially stubborn pair of jeans which are tangled 
> up.  I can't hear it any more, but I used to love to listen to her 
> talking while she worked.  She never did it outside the home, though.
>
> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches
> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD. and Laveau Guide Dog, CGC.
> "Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you 
> earn it and win it in every generation."
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