Why Do Dogs Do That?: Real Answers to the Curious Things Canines Do?
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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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Why Do Dogs Do That? - Kim Campbell Thornton
The Basics of Barking
Dogs bark because they have something to say. Barking may sound just like noise to us, but to dogs, barks actually say a lot of things:
That guy in the blue uniform is attacking our front door again!
A strange car has pulled into the driveway!
Help! I’ve stuck my head through a hole in the fence, and I can’t get out.
Hey! You’ve been home for five minutes, and you haven’t said hello to me yet.
FIDO FACTOID Dogs have been barking for a long time. More than 10,000 years ago, wild dogs hung around people’s caves, scrounging for leftovers and trying to sneak in when it rained (sound familiar?). These traits were passed on to generations until eventually some dogs lost their wild side, a process called domestication. One of the results of domestication is that dogs have kept many puppy-like characteristics, including barking. For example, adult wild dogs, such as wolves, coyotes and foxes, bark very little, but their puppies bark a lot.
Dogs communicate with us in many ways, and barking is one way they can get their point across. A dog’s bark can warn us of danger or when they need help.
Dogs bark when they get excited and sometimes just for the fun of it. When you yell at them to stop, they get even more excited. Cool! My owner’s barking back at me. Now we can have a real conversation.
To a dog, any kind of attention — even yelling — is something to celebrate.
Car Wars
All day long, your dog tears off after the motorized monsters, barking and snapping at the tires. As each vehicle pulls away, he happily turns back with a satisfied expression. Score: Dog 5, Cars 0. Car chasing is generally a territorial reaction, often aimed at cars or trucks that drive by regularly, such as postal trucks or delivery vans.
Car chasing can also be a form of predatory behavior, usually triggered by noise and motion. Frustrated herding dogs frequently engage in predatory car chasing. After all, the herding instinct is nothing but a redirected form of the prey drive, in which the dog circles and drives his prey but does not follow through