Change In Bark Tone

[cashew]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone experienced dogs having a change in the pitch of bark. My dog had a high shrill but I noticed that ever since his month-long quarantine stay, he returned to us with a very low type of husky bark. He no longer has a high-pitched bark. He is gaining fantastic muscle mass and is in all aspects normal and very happy. But the bark is worrying me. He was put on an intranasal vaccine for the prevention of kennel cough before he flew into Australia. Could the vaccine be a cause for the change? My OH thinks that he has "over-barked" while in the quarantine. Will that change our dogs' pitch as well? He sounds like a "de-barked" dog now. Not that I mind but I just wonder why he has a change in pitch. Dogs do not get sore throats?

Will really appreciate your views. Thanks.

[puggy_puggy]

Could be that he picked up a bit of a bug in quarantine and still has it.

Or yes maybe he did bark and bark whilst there and hurt his throat.

Is he a young dog?

[persephone]

Hi-

My first guess- without much thought, is that he has barked so much at quarantine- he now has a 'sore throat'- and laryngitis.

Hopefully ,with a rest from the continuous barking, it will settle- and he will have his normal pitch.

(also hoping that barking is now not a habit :D )

[cashew]

My dog is about 6 yrs old. He is a generally quiet dog unless someone knocks on the door. I guess the month-long stay in quarantine caused some form of over-barking. I was initially so worried that his intranasal vaccine "burnt" his voice. :D

Hope he recovers from this low woof. I just got a shock when I heard him bark---so unusual for him.

[~Anne~]

The barking could have caused nodules to grow on his chords too perhaps...like when humans repeatedly strain their vocal chords.

I would be having it looked at by a Vet just to be sure. There are heart and chest conditions that can affect a dogs vocal sounds.

[Greytmate]

Yes, one of my dogs changed to a much lower pitched and huskier bark after an illness. The illness only lasted a few days and seemed to be some sort of virus. She lived for years afterwards, but died of respiratory failure, possibly as a result to the damage that occurred to her throat from the virus.