I don’t know if they are necessarily intended to provoke. Some are definitely intended to warn and I think greet sometimes as well based on my own dogs’ barks.
I’d say that depends on the warning bark and my dogs have more than one kind. There are kinds they seem to do to sound fierce and there are kinds they seem to do in order to get my attention.
But the greeting bark is definitely not provocative, it’s just “open the door now now now now now pet me!”
I don’t know if they are necessarily intended to provoke. Some are definitely intended to warn and I think greet sometimes as well based on my own dogs’ barks.
You don’t think a warning is a type of provocation?
I’d say that depends on the warning bark and my dogs have more than one kind. There are kinds they seem to do to sound fierce and there are kinds they seem to do in order to get my attention.
But the greeting bark is definitely not provocative, it’s just “open the door now now now now now pet me!”
And to request/demand.