My first guess is that he (or she) is basically barking, but for some reason keeping his or her mouth open during the whole barking jag.
My second is that he or she has seen some things. Some bad things.
I’d say he is howling. Sure is doing a good imitation of Wilhelm though.
Yeah, I’d agree. An atypical “howl”. There’s a another youtube video out there of a husky doing the same thing. You can see that they’re adopting the same mouth open attitude as any other dog when howling.
Man I’m glad I don’t have to wake up to that in the morning.
This sound is not entirely uncommon. A lot of dogs do this and it’s a calling card of some breeds, such as the Nova Scotia tolling retriever.
Not to be confused with the trolling retriever, which exclusively howls classic Rick Astley tunes.
That sounds disturbingly human.
I have an ongoing battle with asshole neighbor’s dogs - he wants lots of barking. I don’t.
So I have a wall of ultrasonic bark stopping devices - a clever microphone circuit to detect a bark and transducers to produce 120 db of unpleasant noise.
I awoke one morning to 3 dogs doing this high-pitched howl to be able to make noise without triggering the devices.
I have a manual remote control for these things.
I haven’t had any of them try it since then.
Glad I have cats.
I’ve heard audio of housecats mating. One of the most savage, horrific sounds I’ve ever heard.
While I just find that annoying (and the people have clearly encouraged/trained Cody to exaggerate the howling he does), I find the goats hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpccpglnNf0
As a child, I spent the night on the second story porch at my Grandmother’s house.
A cat in heat jumped to the window ledge, threw a shadow from the moon onto my bed and made horrendous noises.
I thought Satan had come to drag me to hell.
Small dogs often have weird barks and howls. My little doglet has an alert-bark that sounds like a rooster - and if she’s crying/howling for food, it often sounds like a cat miaowing.
“…people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.”
- Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
Huskies are known for their vocalizations that sound rather human-like. If you go to a dog sledding event, it sounds like a crowd of people babbling nonsense.
…and Davy Crockett rides around and says it’s cool for cats…