Hinge match not asking questions

A reply like "Ha, thanks. He's a menace." is a complete answer to the dog comment and little else. It tells you she heard you and found it mildly amusing. It does not tell you she is bored, unless her earlier messages were also short and she never adds anything on her own.

Compare how she writes across the whole thread. If she writes full sentences when she is talking about something she likes, but gives one-liners to everything else, she is probably interested in the topic and not much interested in carrying a conversation with you specifically. If every message is clipped, she may be a low-effort texter who uses the app while doing something else.

Also look at timing. A reply that arrives a day later with no question attached is different from one that comes back in ten minutes. Slow and short together is a clearer signal than short alone.

Good replies here usually work in one of three shapes. The first is a small observation about something she said, with no question attached, that leaves room for her to add to it. The second is a light statement about yourself that she can react to or ask about. The third is a plain question with a clear, easy answer, the sort she can reply to in one line without thinking.

You can tell a draft is working if she could answer it in under ten seconds and still have something to add. A draft fails when it contains more than one question, asks for an opinion she has to build from scratch, or circles back to the fact that she has been quiet.

Keep it short and leave out any comment on her effort. Anything that sounds like a complaint about the thread will make her defensive, and a defensive reply is harder to build from than a neutral one.

Send your reply during a normal part of her day, not late at night when it reads as a bid for attention. If she has been replying in the evenings, match that. If you do not know her pattern, send mid-afternoon on a weekday, which is when most people are relaxed enough to answer without much thought.

Give her a day before you follow up. If she answers, keep going and let the thread find its own pace. If she does not answer, send one more short message that is easy to reply to, then stop. Two unanswered messages from you with nothing back is a clear answer.

If she replies to your follow-up but still does not ask anything, you can try moving the conversation to a call or a time to meet. Her willingness to make a plan is a better signal than the number of questions she asks in text.