Barking in car
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| Our Irish Setter does this - it is anxiety related. Try a covered crate- that helps us. |
| Training, but takes two people. Your sheepie is trying to herd the cars or is just excited by the movement around her. One person drives, the other has the dog on leash and gives the quick tug to snap her out of her quest to control the world. The trainer must be quick, firm, no sound and calm. Maybe first train the trainer.
The more you yell or tell her to sushhhh, the louder and longer she'll go, afterall, you are joining her in making noise. Sometimes putting them into a covered crate works, but can result in car sickness. I know muzzle seems like a good idea........or ear plugs. Mine eventually figured it out, no barking, but it came with training........and age. |
| She rides in the back seat of my car, so I don't know if any kind of crate will go in there. I have seen those "calming" products. Do those work? |
SheepieBoss wrote: Training, but takes two people. Your sheepie is trying to herd the cars or is just excited by the movement around her. One person drives, the other has the dog on leash and gives the quick tug to snap her out of her quest to control the world. The trainer must be quick, firm, no sound and calm. Maybe first train the trainer.
The more you yell or tell her to sushhhh, the louder and longer she'll go, afterall, you are joining her in making noise. Sometimes putting them into a covered crate works, but can result in car sickness. I know muzzle seems like a good idea........or ear plugs. Mine eventually figured it out, no barking, but it came with training........and age. Boy do I wish I knew that with my last sheepie, she barked constantly in the car, needless to say, we couldn't take her very many places. I am so glad that my 8 month old sheepie loves the car and goes everywhere with us. |
| With some dogs it is more than training - it can require intervention. We use a vet prescribed medication for our Irish. the other three LOVE the car. |
Our 10-month male is awful in the car. Aggitated, panting and then BARKING, BARKING, BARKING. Is worst when the car slows and stops. We've put him in the back area of our small SUV so he's not climbing all over the place. It's very distracting to listen to that loud bark when you're driving. It's funny because the first month we had him (he was 3-4 months) he was fine in the car, and we kept taking him the car so he would be used to it. But then one day he just started barking and has not stoppped since.  |
| I take all three of my girls out in the van on a daily basis. The two Aussies sometimes would bark at people as we would pass them. Not every person, but enough so that it was bothersome. Anyway, I decided to use the whistle method to train them to stop. So now when they bark in the car, I blow a whistle and they stop immediatly. I keep the whistle right on the dashboard so I can get it quickly. I've only had to use it a few times and now they rarely bark in the van. |
| I don't know mine loves the car and to watch people as we drive. People acturally wil tke pictures and wave at him and he will hi five them and they drive by laughing. I pulled into mc donalds and the staff had to come see him before they would let me drive off. Thank god for camera phones. I just hope they send me some $$ they may gain cuz I swere my dog is on a gift bag. It's got to be him. So I bought the bag and all my friends say yep thats him. |
Quote: I pulled into mc donalds and the staff had to come see him before they would let me drive off.
Yeah, I remember those days. I can't remember which rescue it was.....could it have been Jack??......who when I stopped at a McDonalds for a soft drink at the drive thru, the dog was half way out my car window and half way into the McDonald's drive thru window before I grabbed him. The look on the face of the employee was sheer terror  |
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