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What the research actually says.

Short pieces on the sounds cats and dogs make, built from published measurements. Every claim traces to a named study, and the ones the research cannot support are named as such.

An illustrated grey tabby cat and a tan puppy sitting side by side, both looking out at you.

Alert bark vs lonely bark: what actually changes in the sound

Pitch drops, harshness rises, and the gap between barks shortens to about a tenth of a second. The measured differences between an alert bark and an isolation bark, from Pongrácz et al. (2006) and Yin (2002), plus the one pair of contexts nobody has managed to tell apart by sound.