People have said the Keeshond is a very vocal breed, and where I have seen good examples of this, our girls are not. For the most part our girls are quiet. Yodi only barks at moving things like people walking by, deer, and bears, you know things that are bigger then her, that are moving near her house. Poor Sadie doesn't know how to bark, she tries but doesn't quite get it. DeDe only barks at us, or if she is outside to be let in, because heaven forbid she spends a day outside.
DeDe has the three of us in the family that she will bark at and that is all. She can be by herself when a stranger comes up to her trying to talk or pet her and she won't say a word, or let them pet her for that matter, this was problematic one night. She will bark once I get home, if she is trying to annoy me, or I have her locked up somewhere where she knows where I am and can't get to me.
There is one other time she will bark. That is in her sleep, she is a sleep barker. Now, when she does sleep, she prefers to sleep on me, using me as a pillow. Somewhere I don't remember us talking about that or agreeing to it. She can use me as a pillow, but it doesn't work the other way around. When she sleeps really deeply I can hear muffled barking and growling and she kicks too.
Starting off, she will be curled up against my back leaning against me, and I wonder why my shoulder hurts in the morning. After some time, she stretches out and lays half her body on top of mine, and if I move and whack her she turns and glares at me like "how dare you," and moves away. If I lay still, some times she will start to have nightmares. I call them nightmares because I have never heard her growl when she is awake.
There is still come comfort I can offer her even in sleep to calm her. If I whisper to her or very lightly pet her I think it wakes her a little to stop the nightmare but doesn't wake her fully. If I startle her fully awake, she will try to bite me that half second before she is aware of herself, so she puts her mouth on me but doesn't bite down. I guess that is like trying to stop a sleep walker without waking them.
Some here along the way it was said that she can lay on me but I can't on her. I comfort her during her nightmares and she barely tolerates comforting me during my day mares. Somewhere the scales are not even, and I would like to find it and set it straight. I don't remember volunteering to be a pillow or to be a pillow to someone who is going to kick me in the end.
T
