euthanasia, seizure, or legal problems if the matter has proven incapable of being reliably corrected any other way. Debarking is illegal in many European states and opposed by animal welfare organizations. Representation Woof is the conventional representation in the English language of the barking of a dog. As with other examples of onomatopoeia or imitative sounds, other cultures "hear" the dog's barks differently and represent them in their own ways. Some of the equivalents of "woof" in other languages are as follows: English – woof woof; ruff ruff; arf arf (large dogs and also the sound of sea lions); yap yap; yip yip (small dogs), bow wow, bork bork Albanian – Armenian – haf haf (հաֆ-հաֆ) Bulgarian – bau-bau (бау-бау); jaff, jaff (джаф-джаф) Chinese Mandarin – wāngwāng (汪汪) Cantonese – (㕵㕵) Croatian – Czech – haf, haf Danish – vov vov; vuf vuf Dutch – Estonian – Finnish – Filipino – French – German – Greek – Hungarian – vau, vau Icelandic – voff, voff Indonesian – guk, guk Italian – Japanese – (ワンワン) Korean – meong-meong (멍멍, ), wal-wal (왈왈) Latvian – vau, vau Lithuanian – au, au Persian – haap, haap (هاپ، هاپ) Polish – hau, hau Portuguese – au-au; ão-ão; Romanian – ham-ham; Russian – гав-гав (); тяв-тяв ( (small dogs)) Serbian – av-av Spanish – guau-guau Swedish – voff; vov vov Tamil – லொள் லொள் – loL loL Thai – โฮ่ง โฮ่ง (); บ๊อก บ๊อก () Turkish – hav, hav Ukrainian – гав-гав (hav-hav) Vietnamese – gâu gâu Breeds The Huntaway is a working dog that has been selectively bred to drive stock (usually sheep) by using its voice. It was bred in New Zealand, and is still bred based on ability rather than appearance or lineage. Naturally "barkless" dog breeds Compared to most domestic dogs, the bark of a dingo is short and monosyllabic. During observations, the barking of Australian dingoes was shown to have a relatively small variability; sub-groups of bark types, common among domestic dogs, could not be found. Furthermore, only 5% of the observed vocalizations were made up of barking. Australian dingoes bark only in swooshing noises or in a mixture atonal/tonal. Also, barking is almost exclusively used for giving warnings. Warn-barking in a homotypical sequence and a kind of "warn-howling" in a heterotypical sequence has also been observed. The bark-howling starts with several barks and then fades into a rising and