All my Silken Windhounds have had their own specific voice.
There is no need to see who is barking, I can tell from the sound.
Robban (SBIS SuSVK W-03, W-05 Kristull Rowan) had a very special voice, unlike all others. It was a very hoarse sound.
To some extent you could hear remnants of it in his kids and grandkids. Not all of them, just some of them. In later generations it can no longer be detected.
Plutten, Starcastle Hound’s Pathfinder, a grandson of Robban, has very vague traces of his grandfathers voice in his own voice.
Here he is telling some wildlife outside the fence that he is guarding this place, and you’d better keep out!
Are they vocal?
1. It is individual
2. It can differ with the situation.
Very few Silken Windhounds are really barky. Most are pretty much silent. Some hardly ever barks during their entire lifetime.
From the beginning with Silkens I lived in suburbs, in a flat high up and later in a flat at groundlevel with a stamp sized yard. My Silkens were so used to people and dogs and cars and … all the time, around the clock. They never said anything at all.
Later, the exact same dogs moved with me to a cottage in a very isolated setting.
No neighbours. No paths by my property where people would walk.
Here they never saw anyone. Except for the mailman once in awhile and people coming to visit. And NOW it was different.
Now the same dogs that were utterly quiet in the suburbs, sounded the alarm as soon as a car came into my driveway. As I still live here, but am now about 7-8 generations later, I can tell you that they still sound the alarm when someone comes or a car as much as try to turn around down on my driveway.
They do not guard as in protect. They would let anyone in or out. But they sound the alarm.
I have one that always bark at the wildlife outside when it is dark. More barking during dark winter days then during sunny summer days…
Others that just watch, but never say anything.
Sometimes there is barking and growling when the dogs are wildly playing
Puppies can be a bit loud when playing too.
I have not found it to be necessarily inherited from generation to generation either.
There is always one in the pack that takes on the guard duty and is always the first to sound the alarm. Any dog taking on that job usually keeps it during their entire lifetime.
When that dog either steps down or is gone, another just steps up and take over the job.