Any races of dogs that don't bark ?

[Balthisar]

I seem to recall that Hungarian Komondors don’t bark too much.

[MissGypsy]

@auRa

Oh, they bark, all right. At least some of them do. There used to be an Akita living in the house next to my friend’s, and every time I walked past the house, it would raise the most unbelievable racket. Didn’t have to be someone walking by, either. Bicycles, cars going by, the train arriving at the station half a mile away… It barked for them all. One night I was sleeping over at her house and we went into the front yard at 3 am to find the dog still hollering away at seemingly nothing. I don’t know how the owners put up with it…

You sure it was a purebred Akita? I’m told, by several folks who have owned (and two who have bred) Akitas for decades that they simply do not ever bark.