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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dog is 7.5 pounds and the definition of all bark no bite. Even if she could get through the door, she is doing nothing, but part of her entertainment is people watching at the front door. Since she is in my house and on my property and you aren't and shouldn't be, I don't care how you feel about her barking OP. [/quote]

Just curious pp if barking at strangers meant that your dog was stresses.  Would that change your opinion?[/quote]

Many dogs are bred to bark.  If PP has a chihuahua, which is likely, that breed is developed to be a guardian dog.  Not an attack dog, but an alerting dog.  It isn’t necessarily stressed at all.  I had one and he would always bark a couple of times if someone pulled up to the house, then snooze off again on the couch.

My beagle is bred to be a hunting dog.  She barks at squirrels, never people.  She isn’t stressed—she LOVES hunting and wants to go chase them, is letting me know there is something to hunt.  Excited, not stressed.[/quote]

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