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    Barking: Simple Solutions
    Barking: Simple Solutions
    Barking: Simple Solutions
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    Barking: Simple Solutions

    By Kim Campbell Thornton and Buck Jones

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    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!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCompanionHouse Books
    Release dateDec 18, 2012
    ISBN9781620080641
    Barking: Simple Solutions
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    Kim Campbell Thornton

    Kim Campbell Thornton has been writing about dogs and cats for twenty-five years. She’s the award-winning author of more than two dozen books, including Careers With Dogs: The Comprehensive Guide to Finding Your Dream Job and The Everything Labrador Retriever Book.

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      Barking - Kim Campbell Thornton

      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

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