When alone, my dog cries like wolf. why so?

Question

My dog cries like wolf rather than barking. Altough it does bark on strangers but when alone it cries like wolf. why so?

Answer 1

All animals, especially dogs have very unique sounds for communicating what they feel. This is an obvious case of separation anxiety and there are remedies. Go to the following link, it has many ways to help resolve this problem: http://www.petalia.com.au/templates/StoryTemplate_Process.cfm?Story_No=1832

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/4p1q5

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

The ancester of dog in fact is a wolf, and it has kept some of the characteristics, howling is one of them.
When a dog cries like a wolf, normally is coz it is lonely and sad and left alone. It is trying to attract attention or just relieving itself..
Do u know that another habit kepy by all the dogs is "morning howling"? They love to do it to communicate with each other; Many domestic dogs are not doing it coz they are mostly penned in the house, so not able to do it. But when they can, they will do it every morning

Answer 4

My dog does the same it is because he misses you! Wolves use howling to contact other members of thier pack and call them to thier den...so your dog is basically calling you home...He barks at strangers because a bark is used to warn...wolves rarely bark but when they do it is to warn other nearby pack members of danger, without attracting as much attention as a howl...

So....loud, far carrying howl is used to contact and summon other pack members from long distances away.

Bark...loud, startling sound that carries short distances used to warn other nearby pack members of danger or intruders in thier territory

Answer 5

because it doesnt like being left alone. this is one way that it is trying to get attention. there are some great websites that have alot of information on how to help train them out of this.

google search "sepatation anxiety dog" and have a look at those.

Good luck in training your pooch. It only took me a few weeks to stop my dogs from doing it.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

He misses his masters. Animals know which sounds carry further, and howling carries a lot further than barking (for one dog - one dog's barking may be louder than another dog's howling) and he tries to call you.

Answer 8

It has seperation anxiety. Some dogs will bark others will howl. depends on the dog

Answer 9

All dogs are descended from wolves. The howling when alone is the pack member (your dog) trying to locate the other pack member (you).

Answer 10

Your dog thinks of you as part of his or her "pack" and the howling is probably an attempt to get w/ the pack. Probably doesn't want to be alone.