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References. Faragó, Tamás & Takács, N. & Miklosi, Adam & Pongracz, Peter. (2017). Dog growls express various contextual and affective content for human listeners.
The reason why we want to avoid the dog rehearsing the growling is because the more dogs are repeatedly exposed to growl-evoking events, the more the behavior becomes deeply ingrained.
Growling usually first appears in dogs when puppies are about 24 days of age during play fights, emitting a pitch of up to 450 Hz with great variation in consistency. By 9 weeks old, puppies produce a growl of around 300 Hz, with no variation in consistency.
Although puppies do not have the urge to procreate, males sometimes engage in sexual play in the form of mounting. [46] In some puppies, this behavior occurs as early as 3 or 4 weeks-of-age. [47] Dogs reach sexual maturity and can reproduce during their first year, in contrast to wolves at two years-of-age.
A puppy is a juvenile dog, generally one less than 12-18 months old. Puppies are markedly underdeveloped and dependent on their mothers at birth (displaying altriciality), but healthy puppies grow quickly and begin walking thereafter. Puppies generally weigh 8–16 oz (0.23–0.45 kg) shortly after birth, depending on the breed. [1]
Incomplete Potty Training. At the age of 3 months, puppies are still considered the equivalent of infants. Consider that their small bodies and minds are in the process of developing.
Soft, low-pitched growling that seems to come from the chest – used as a threat by a dominant dog. [1]: 83 Soft growling that is not so low-pitched and seems more obviously to come from the mouth – stay away. [1]: 83 Low-pitched growl-bark – growl leading to a bark is both a threat and a call for assistance. [1]: 84
Here's what makes dogs bark at seemingly nothing at all.