Wolves don’t bark like dogs do. Ocean here who is a wolfdog demonstrates beautifully the wolf ‘puff’. It’s a subtle quiet puff bark that warns the pack of danger without alerting the enemy. Over time as wolves integrated themselves into human settlements perhaps for more easy food, man started to select the puppies with the noisiest bark as it was beneficial to him to have a warning system. Now we can’t get our dogs to stop barking! I personally prefer the discreet puff bark. Some low content wo

Wolfdogs — and wolves themselves — don’t bark the way our fully domesticated dogs do. When my blue wolfdog Ocean alerts me to something, she doesn’t bark… she puffs. A deep huff of air, a warning carried on breath, not sound. Wolves can bark, but it’s rare. In the wild, giving away your location to rival packs is risky, so that quiet warning puff evolved as the safer choice. But when dogs became domesticated, humans wanted loud watch dogs to guard camps. So we selectively bred barking into them