Your dog is in te yard barking and playing, you go to bed that night and wake up and hear your canine pal trying to bark but instead the sound which comes out sounds like a someone just drank sand and is trying to speak. What has happened is that your dog has just lost his bark and you won't be hearing that regular sound you are accustomed to. So how do dogs loose their barks or sound? Lets first look at the dogs vocal area to understand how dogs bark in the first place.

The image above is what is called a Larynx, this one belongs to our canine buddy.  Through this piece of organ you get those loud barks and playful or mean growls. The vocal cord are responsible for creating those sounds which your dogs make. If suddenly your dog looses it sound, it may because of the following factors:

Viral Infection

• Causes Acute Laryngitis in dogs. Yes, animals do get laryngitis too. This may cause from Viral Infections. Viral infections like those that form the common cold. The infection will attack the vocal cords and and allow them to become inflamed and swollen. Thus disturbing the air flow between vocal cords.

Over Barking

• If you ever had one of those dogs that will see a cat staring out the glass window next door and begins to bark from sundown to sunup for one whole week, chances are your dog has overworked his voice box and may just loose his bark for a while.

Dog Allergy

• You dog may loose his bark also because of some allergy. One thing for certain is that your vet will give him a good diagnosis to pencil out the cause.

If you hear your dog walking about and having some really dry and rough coughs, sounding like a guy who swallowed a tobacco factory, is a sign that your dog could develop laryngitis. If you notice this mean cough in your dog, my advice would be to take the animal to the vet and let a professional diagnose the situation. If you are someplace where you simple cannot see a vet, here are some natural solutions to help your dogs vocal cords and cool its voice box.

Give Your Dog Honey
Honey has been used traditionally to soothe a sore or irritated throat.

Give your dog soft foods fr a while
You do not want to have anything hard or rough like particles of bone passing his throat until he sees a vet

Ensure that he gets plenty of room temperature clean water to drink. Once you can see the vet, then he will diagnose and prescribe any remedies if necessary.

Its is a natural thing, many people choke on their foods, luckily for some it is not life threatening. Just as it is in the human world, so it is in the puppy world. Puppies are cute adorable little critters and there is always a proper feeding habits which pet owners must adhere to when feeding your pup. Here are my five tips to prevent your puppy from chocking while when eating.

Food size
this is critical, you have o ensure that the size of each part of the food presented to the puppy is small enough that even if not chewed properly and it slides down its throat, it can be easily swallowed and not block any air way. For this same reason is why you have dog food different that puppy food.

Feed Regular
You must feed toy puppy regular and not once a while. You don't want when you bring your puppy food, he is so hungry that he has chow down too fast

Don't Pet or Play With While Eating
If it is only one thing i know about dogs is that they love to eat. But puppies love to play, ensure that you do not indulge your puppy in any playful activities while feeding. He may get too excited and begin to chow down too fast or play while eating which may result in your puppy choking.

Not Too Hard Food
Ensure that whatever you place in your puppy's plate is bite-able and chew-able by puppy standards. Don't force the pup to try and swallow large chunks because his little mouth is tired and unable to chew any further.

Dogs are a mans best friend, there fore i can only assume that a man is a dog's best friend. Even though we are charged with the responsibility of taking care of our canine friends, at some point our canine pals do the same for us too. Apart from having dog jobs such as service or sight dog, dogs do make us feel comfortable by doing small but very appreciative things for their owners.

Smother Us

• You might just be sitting on the front Porsche and see you dog simply strolling towards you, then lifts his upper body up and just starts doggy kiss you (licking). Not only is this a sign that your dog truly loves he, he is making you feel at home, he is providing you with a bit of comfort by simply expressing his doggy love.
  

Bring Us The Paper

• Nothing is more sweeter and more comfortable than having a dog that is trained to bring you the newspaper. Imagine the newspaper arrives and your dog without hesitation hurries to gulp it and brings it to you wagging its tail full of enthusiasm.
  

Bring you Your Slipper

• Ok, we all know that if you send your puppy for your slippers you may not see the pup nor the slipper until it is properly chewed. But despite puppies that just love to chew shoes, you do have dogs that knows when to bring our slippers, especially our bed time slippers. You wake in the morning and stretch and yawn and you dog is right there waiting on you wondering why you take so long to wake and it is so late at 6:00 AM! He rushes and grabs your slipper ensuring that you have them ready to move. If that is not comfort, please tell me what is.
  

Curls Up And Sleep With Us

• Yes, its that cold winter night when you are at home drinking a nice hot cup of chocolate tea and reading your favorite hubpage article. Then your dog jumps in your lap, you feel so comfortable with your warm canine buddy you simply fall asleep. Remember that your dog loves you just as much as how you love it. It wants to see you comfortable and happy and will do what it knows how to do to make you feel comfortable.