Mine isn’t a barker unless he hears someone at the door or is saying “hi” to one of his dog friends. He does have his lil’ howls, though.....just to hear himself, I Think.
He has a deep basso-bark that sounds like it should be coming from a dog twice his size, hehehe.
Ruby (my barking black Lab) barked a big loud deep adult bark for the first time a little while ago -- and you could see she was totally nonplussed - "Did I make that noise?" Shelley (the older Chocolate) rarely barks, but if somebody is at the door she sounds like a gross of Rottweilers. Funny that such a big sound comes out of a little 45 pound spoilt princess.
She is such a schmoozer that the first time she boarded at our trainers she conned her way right into the house. NOW she sleeps on the foot of the trainer's bed. She is an operator. Ruby has no social graces and sleeps in the kennel (and resents it mightily). But she has a buddy in the form of a little 8 month old black Lab female named Boo-Boo. They love to play chase (a game that Shelley is tired of at almost 8 years), and they share a kennel. It's so funny to see two little black noses poking out of the straw piled in a sideways 55-gallon drum on a cradle.