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What age do Yorkies start barking? My Yorkie is 19 weeks old (roughly 5 months) and has only barked 4 times. Is that normal? or is he just a good dog with good genes and won't bark as much? Thanks :cool: |
Dont be in a hurry to hear his voice. Once he finds it and turns it on,it creates a life long hunt to find the off switch. |
OHH trust me, My wife and I are enjoying the silence while we can. |
I've found that once a dog begins to feel secure about his home, surroundings & himself & begins to take ownership of the property, he will begin to bark & growl at perceived threats. |
All different Mollie was 5 but we got Lizzie took her a two weeks The baby chirps or wimp peers |
I think Hot Rod was over a year old. He about scared us to death as we never heard him barking before. He was saw my brother thru a window from the sunroom. Hubby was upstairs and came running downstairs, that's how startling it was. Then after that, he still did not bark very much. My neighbor got her yorkie and she's a barker and then the other neighbor on my other side got a yorkie who is also a barker. Now's he feels he has to let us know when there is any activity going in the back yards. |
Miss Mia had her first real bark just yesterday! Squeaky and whimpy sounding to be sure, but none the less a bark! Once she heard herself and saw our reaction she kept going and that little bark became a mighty loud self assured one...leading to a "be nice" (we use "be nice" instead of shut up even though we think shut up, I've always preferred be nice!) Miss Mia is almost 7 months. |
I don't remember with Georgie but enjoy the quiet while you can LOL. |
If there is another dog around for the puppy to hear barking then a pup may start barking more quickly than otherwise. Gracie is an only dog at the moment and she didn't really start barking until she was a year old. It seems that she thinks she can talk because she started barking when she wanted to play or was putting the cat in it's place. Sometimes she talks back to me when I tell her something------like "no!" |
Straight out of the freaking box, man! I swear our new puppy walked out of the womb competing in a bark-a-thon. She's now going for the Guiness world records of the longest continuous bark. She's 16 weeks But seriously, it depends. Gabby didn't start barking until she was almost a year old. She still doesn't bar very much. |
Abby is 10 months and has just started barking and growling (at the big dog!) in the past few weeks. Ziva is a growler when she plays tug and Abby is finally learning how- it comes out like humming! They both howl to the police sirens- it is sooo funny. I think Abby would not have learned had it not been for my other two dogs (her parents were very quiet) |
Kaji will be 4 years old in Aug. that means I've been waiting for 3 years to her him bark, he just doesn't. He does growl when he hears peope outside of our apt, or if my mom's company is trying to come into our room, he growls to let them know it's not ok. (which I am very happy about) It's not to say he never, EVER barks. He'll bark once every other month. That's about it. |
Oh yes, enjoy the silence! Dexter will not shut up now. I understand dogs bark, but sometimes it's constant and extremely loud! |
Lol! Yes, enjoy it while it lasts. KS was quiet about the first 2 weeks she was home and then she certainly let us know she had a woof of her own. Lol. Thankfully now she knows when she is pressing her luck and I can give her a certain look or say quiet and she knows to quieten down. |
Peek a Boo used to squeak (like an old door) like a bark was trying to come out. It took me and DH a full 30 minutes to figure out where the sound was coming from. We live(d) in a new house and no doors ever squeaked! Finally, Finny has taught him well. He still squeaks, but now lets out a full bark and has learned a very low gutteral growl, and can combine the growl with the bark. Oh and last year, he woke up at 3 AM on top of a pile of dirty laundry in the laundry room, and belted out a full howl... yes, just like the big dogs! I thought, what the heck is that...I'm not watching Animal Planet! Looked around and saw his sillohuette (like a mini-wolf) atop the pile and could not believe it! Lol! (He's 15.5 years old) Who says old dogs don't learn new tricks! I wonder at what age do they stop? |
I had Sophie Kate exactly 30 seconds when she let out her first bark at 3 months of age. Now approaching her 4th Birthday she is still barking. Enjoy the quiet while you have it. |
Sometimes when Gracie is in terrier mode she will want me to play tug with her and one of her toys. She'll bark but the funniest thing is when she growls! I swear it sounds like a cat's purr. She is trying to sound all scary and tough but she sounds like she is purring! I guess you just have to be there. That scary sound she is trying to make just makes me laugh! |
Max was about 6 months old when I first heard a real bark. He is not too yappy but will bark at my other dogs when they are playing and sometimes when he first goes in his crate. Hopefully your little one will be the quiet type. :) |
I don't think I heard Riley bark until he was about 8-months old..... and even now, he very Rarely Barks. He will occasionally bark if he hears someone out in the hallway.... When he started doing that.... I would bang on my glass coffee table and put my finger up to my lips and say "No Bark"! He would stop and then I say... "Good No Bark" and we both go running into the kitchen for a little treat... usually a piece of a green bean. :) So now if he barks at the door, he will only bark a couple of times, and then he will stop and look back at me..... |
maybe your baby wont be a barker. luckly my ziggy isnt either. he only barks if he hears his Big brother barking outside, or when he is having a temper tantrum!lol. so many people have asked me "does ziggy ever bark?" thats how quiet he is. but i like it. especially beause when we move out our house we'll be going to an apartment so i like that he's quiet, im hoping his sister will be the same |
My 4 year old that I just adopted barks at people's movement even after they are in the house. I don't mind the initial barking when they come to the house. I can tell that my house guests are annoyed with being barked at when they make any movements. Not sure how to deal with that. My other Yorkie isn't a barker. I'm thinking it's the excitement of having them in the house. Any ideas? |
The funny thing with all three of them is they bark in unison Mollie the oldest is loosing some of her hearing but as soon as Lizzie starts she will join in. Then Abbie who what's the funniest bark that is a bark / chirp / pur will join in. The unfortunately we have to glass windows beside our front door which is Lizzie's look out point. She will se another dog and wants to go out to play and the whole gang will follow. I at have the UPS driver who has stopped ringing the door bell zo they want go nuts. However if Liz hears a doorbell on tv it is her trigger to bark and bark and bark |
I think Khloe was born barking. When we got her at 15 weeks old she was already barking. |
thanks Everyone, he had his first bark yesterday when a friends dog tried to come in the room.lol |
Jersey is almost 10 weeks old and she was play barking sense about two days after coming home which we just got her last week. :) she puts her little butt in the air and grr-ruffs at us or the cat. But shes not yet barked at any one for other than play. Not even to knocking on the door yet..... Lol with my first yorkie kagan she was barking at the knocks on a door by 6-7 months. But wasnt a barker otherwise. :) |
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