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| good luck. lol |
Hi, I was able to stop my sheepies from barking. When your dog is barking, give him treats and a command to go with it. Such as "speak". I also use hand commands. Whenever you can get him to bark on command you can start teaching, "no speak". It was done with consistency in about a week for my 2. It works 90% of the time. LOL Good luck.  Stormi and co. |
| Teach him the QUIET command. When he barks, tell him QUIET and when he is - give him a treat and reward with praise.
Also - if you haven't already - go to obedience class (positive reinforcement) - because this "I want what I want when I want it" attitude will get worse. You can teach them - it will just take some time! I have been able to teach my deaf dog how to be quiet - she doesn't always pay attention to it - but she does know what I'm telling her.
I hope it works - because I know how that OES BARK can go right through you at times. Brittney's (my oldest) bark can wake the dead (in fact, her deaf sister can hear her! )
Good Luck! Kristen |
| With Abbi we taught her the SPEAK command every time she barked. Once she was doing it on command, we taught her the quiet command. I would say it took about 4-6 weeks before she really was consistent.
We had trouble getting her to listen sometimes, so we used a crate and crate trained her. This is not the same as punishing her and putting her in the crtate for punishment. No, no, no. What we did is put her in the crate at night. We gave her treats, talked to her, and made it the best experience of her young life. During the day the crate was left open and she would go in there to get away fronm the kids. If she barked in the crate we would ignore her totally or put her outside. If she was out we would say speak the minute she started barking, give her a treat. Once we felt she knew she was getting the treat for barking, we would then say speak when she wasn't barking ... if she did it she got a piece of an turkey hot dog or something special. Then if she barked when we did not ask her to from there on we would say quiet or shhhhh, and put out fingers to our mouth. If she insisted on barking she went outside and was only left in to go to her kennel (crate). If she quieted when we said shoosh, we gave her lots of praise and let her stay with us .... Now she speaks on command, quiets, and is almost too quiet ... just looking at us to be let out. Now we have a new dog (Root Beer) who has been in a shelter for a while. He barks, and howls. He has such a high pitch bark too. So we were trying to teach him the speak/quiet commands. Well we were not crating him, so he just ignored us. Started crating him at night, now he is litenning. Seems to be catching on, but he is not very consistent. Training is time consuming, because you have to figure out what works with your dog and keep trying different things. Hitting them for barking does not solve the problem in the long term. You have to figure out how to communicate with the dog in order to find a long term solution. Sometimes that means getting the dog's attention first. Good luck! I know we could use some. Root Beer not only barks,howls at sirens, howls at the moon, but he digs and is a master escape artisit. We have curbed the escaping part. But the digging seems to be hard to break, sigh! It gets easier with time and effort though. |
| I sympathize with you as Watson is getting worse about his barking. Everytime he hears the dogs outside barking, he starts up. I really think if the other dogs didn't bark, he wouldn't have learned that from them. He barks at people and dogs going by. Of course he also is barked at when we walk.
One of his biggest faults is that he barks at every car, bus or truck that goes by along with spinning. The grass is getting thin along w/our nerves. Watson is 18 mo. old |
| Is Watson neutered? If not - you may want to consider this. His barking behavior may be a territorial thing. The car issue I answered in your other post - but you may want to take a refresher obedience course - that may help with his behavior and it certainly wouldn't hurt. |
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