Dogs are a social species, and generally live by a social pecking order in the wild, as studies of wolves and other wild dogs have shown. So their communications have evolved over thousands of years - we are but babies when it comes to communicating with dogs. Kat On 2 Dec 2005, at 07:33, Meir Weiss wrote: > I really believe dogs have a way of talking to eachother > > Once when we were visiting Janet's parents, and I was walking him, > there was > this HUGE dog behind a four foot chain-link fence that started > barking and > snarling, and Carhartt got between me and the other dog, and > barked, which he > rarely does. The other dog's "bark must have been worse than his > bite," because > he stopped barking, and went back by the house.=20