Does an Australian Cattle Dog Bark with an Australian Accent?

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I like blue heelers

Your mom barks with an Australian accent.

My Irish Setter drinks Guiness. That makes him hard to understand at times.

Mine does but only after he's been drinking.




He is sitting right next to me wanting some of my coffee but since it has Bailey's in it I'm afraid it would change it to a Irish accent?

What part of Australia and why we're you there? Let's get to know more about you.

While the OPs question seems inherently stupid, if you broaden it out to do animals have accents, it's an interesting topic. The short answer is most don't, but a few species besides humans do.

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A friend recently asked me whether black bears in Appalachia have Southern accents and whether they have trouble understanding black bears raised in Canada or Alaska. Taken literally, those are notions more fit for a Disney movie than a scientist. In a more abstract sense, however, it’s a profound inquiry that fascinates zoologists and psychologists alike.

...“In most species, communication appears to have a genetic basis,” she said. “Regional accents can only develop in the small number of species that learn their vocalizations from others.”

Research suggests that the overwhelming majority of animals are born knowing how to speak their species’s language. It doesn’t really matter where those animals are born or raised, because their speech seems to be mostly imprinted in their genetic code.

...Don’t pat yourself on the back for our unique language-leaning abilities, though. Humans are not quite alone in our ability to acquire language.

...Individual members of the same songbird species sing different songs based on their home town. White-crowned sparrows, whose range covers large portions of the United States, use about seven different sounds in their songs. But different population groups combine the sounds in different ways, researchers have found. They seem to learn their local patterns in the first three months of their lives by listening to adults.

...Dolphins, whales, hummingbirds and bats also have a proven ability to learn new vocalizations, and they probably exhibit what we would consider regional accents. Sperm whales in the Caribbean, for example, use different clicking patterns from those in the Pacific. Most other animal species, however, seem to to be more like macaques than men: They’re born knowing how to vocalize, and it doesn’t matter where they’re born.

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Where's Pecker when you need him?

My friend has an Australian Cattle Dog. Straight from the pound. No hint of Australian in the bark at all.

Way cooler than bulldogs

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What part of Australia and why we're you there? Let's get to know more about you

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Two years in Sydney...another three about three hours south of Sydney in a small town called Vincentia, New South Wales. Wife (no pics) is from Sydney. Married her, had the chance to live down there for awhile, so I took it. We were young (19) and wanted adventure. Some of the best years of my life! Opportunity presented itself back in the U.S., got her paperwork, moved back here. Profit.

I lived within 200 yards of this exact beach: