Pebbles isn't much of a barker - she barks to alert me if the doorbell rings or if she hears something out of the ordinary but that's it. She doesn't pay any attention to the normal, everyday noises outside. When helicopters fly directly overhead she runs outside to look up at them, the sound doesn't bother her. She's not bothered by sounds on the tv either.
A few months ago I was resting upstairs and the doorbell rang. Pebbles ran to the front door and barked. I didn't get up because I knew it was only sales people going around door to door. So Pebbles came up the stairs, jumped up on the bed, placed her two front paws on my head and gave this one loud, exasperated sounding bark right in my ear,for all the world as if she was saying "Geez.....can't you hear me?? Why aren't you getting up? I've been trying to tell you someone is at our front door!!" I started laughing and told her I wasn't going to answer it so she was ok about that and just lay down beside me.
When I bring her for walks she only barks at birds on the ground and it's only a bark or two. It makes people laugh because they hear this gruff bark and turn around to see a cute little fluffball chasing the pigeons away. Her bark sounds like it should be coming from a much larger dog! On our walks we sometimes meet a little bichon frise called Lily. As soon as Lily sees us she starts barking, she goes right up to Pebbles and yaps non stop. It's hard to chat with her owner over the high pitched noise. The first time she started yapping in Pebbles' face, Pebbles just stared at her and then looked at me as if she was asking "what's WRONG with her, why won't she stop??!!!" I'm really glad Pebbles doesn't bark like that because I know my neighbours wouldn't be too happy with us if she did.
Pebbles does talk a lot though. When she's talking to me she uses a variety of sounds - grumbling noises when she's complaining, whines, cries, happy yips, excited barks, snorts etc. At this stage I understand her pretty well and even if she's not in sight I can understand what's she's trying to communicate. She understands pretty much everything I say to her too so some visitors find it very funny to hear and see Pebbles and I having a conversation with each other
10-19-2013, 06:30 AM
