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[conuly]

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The camera angles work really hard to make the dogs look vicious and dangerous, but they can't fool me! Those are some happy, friendly puppers!

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[conuly]

I mean, I'd have to see and know the dog in question. It might well be territorial barking, but even if it is, that doesn't necessarily mean aggression. It might be "Yup, this is my spot and that's yours, let's all stay where we belong!" or "Human, I am alerting you to something, but it may or may not be a big deal!" or even "I get attention for barking my fool head off when something is around outside the fence, so here I go again!"

[lilysea]

It doesn't sound like the dog is saying

"I want to bite you"

it sounds like the dog is saying

"Do you MIND"

or "I wish to register a complaint"

or "cut it out!"

I tried talking in a friendly voice when taking the rubbish out, but that just massively increased the storm of barking.

The barking doesn't bother me - as I said, the dog sounds annoyed/irritated but not threatening -

I was just curious what it meant in dog.

The dog also barks up a storm when school kids and their adults walk past on their way to school, but unless there are humans around like

- me + bins
- me + rubbish
- posties/couriers
- schoolkids + adults

it's completely silent.

Interestingly/weirdly, when an actual burglar was hiding in the dog's garden and the dog's outbuilding (laundry) for hours, the dog didn't make a peep, I'm guessing because it was too scared of the burglar?