its a question because i was pondering how deep an animal's mind goes the other day. do they have egos? thought? if they do, since they can't use words, would they think in barks? lol
Dogs don't think in barks any more than you think in words. It might seem that most of your thought is verbal, but a large amount of it isn't.
Example:
In your mind, visualise a car. BAM! You have just thought of a number of things, probably including colour, body shape and perhaps even a specific make and model. Unless it is your intention to explain the car you just visualised to me, there wouldn't have been any words there. Thinking in language is an illusion. The trick is that language is usually what we're paying attention to.
On the topic of what animalistic thought is like, here's another exercise. Imagine yourself being chased by a predator. Tearing through the woods with a single focus: outrun the large, toothed, dangerous monster that pursues you. You're terrified, and are simply running as fast as you can. You're moving at top speed, dodging and weaving between trees and bushes. There is no time for logic or calculation, just
being and preserving your own existence. Imagine that you're in this situation, then
carefully remove the element of the predator. You simply are: you can see/hear/smell/touch the world around you, but aren't busy trying to logically process anything, or verbalise your thoughts.