[Quiet Man Cometh]

Yeah. My brother's dog yaps at everything, though his voice isn't as high pitched as it could be, and he's learning..ever so slowly learning. It doesn't help that both poms and chis are yappers. (Dog show people lost our parking reservation at a large show in the USA and we got stuck being put in the back of the football field sized area for RV's, next to an RV with about 10 pomeranians. 8 am every day, Yap!Yap!Yap!Yap!Yap!Yap!Yap!Yap!) He's pretty much hard-wired to do it. I've heard it's the same with chi-weenies.

He barks when someone knocks at the door. He barks when he *sees* someone knock on the door, or the wall, or put their coffee cup down, or open a door inside the house. You can pinch his little mouth shut and he will still bark through his lips.

He's learning though. He shuts up when someone he knows arrive and if they don't make a big deal of arriving, and he knows me because I shout through the door for him to shut up.

I like my spaniels. Even tiny they still have something of a *woof* sound. The baying is cute too.