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05-26-2006, 07:34 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chicago
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| I Need Sleep I've posted about barking before, and I've seen some of the other posts recently about barking. But I'm in desperate need of some sleep. I recently moved into a new apt. with a friend, we're waiting to move into another apt. in a month but currently I'm sleeping in the living room. The problem I'm having is that during the middle of the night, Bunni will hear people coming home or she'll hear nothing at all, she'll wake up and start barking and screaching for no reason. This is literally if the elevators bing or if someone walks down the hall. I can't even hear the people walking down the hall...and usually there isn't anyone out there. But all the same she wakes up and starts barking, waking me and my roommate up. It usually happens only a few times a night but the last few nights its been happening alot, to the point where we aren't sleeping. I've tried EVERYTHING to get her to stop, picking her up, giving her treats, scolding her, putting her in the kitchen...but nothing works. She's too little to put a bark collar on, she's only 3lbs and I'm too afraid that it wouldn't work. I know she's used to having the door shut when I go to bed but she's got to get used to this way...because this is how it is. I need to get this taken care of asap, because if we move into a different apt. in a different building we don't know how the neighbors are going to be...here we've been very lucky. I need help and I need sleep. |
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05-26-2006, 08:39 AM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rancho Viejo, Tx
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| mine dont do this at home unless they hear something out side. but we did have that problem when we were traveling and they would hear the doors of other people comming in their rooms. what worked most of the time was to leave the tv turned on. it would cover the outter noises. or the radio.
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05-26-2006, 08:47 AM | #3 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chicago
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| we tried having the tv on, but she just thinks its playtime so that doesn't work either. |
05-26-2006, 10:30 AM | #4 |
Mom to 6 Beautiful Furkids Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| This may sound weird but for some reason it works with mine. I will turn the cd player on and play some music, not anything up beat, rather slow and soothing and it works like a charm not a peep out of them unless I forget to turn the cd player on.
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05-26-2006, 10:39 AM | #5 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL
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| Does your pup sleep in a crate at night? if so, try covering her crate up with a sheet or pillow case so that she can't see out (but can still get air). Same concept as covering a bird cage. This somehow relaxes them. Since I've been doing this, mine doesn't fret during the night. It's like I put him in there and he is instantly quiet.
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05-26-2006, 02:13 PM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2006 Location: Norway
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| treats The worst thing you do is to give her treats, becuase then she thinks she get's treats because she's barking. My pup barked sometimes in the beginning but I have a waterbottle, with water and lemon and sprout (?) at her..they don't like lemon... Or you could try a barkingnecklace...(i don't know if you cal it that)...they aare expensive but they do work!!! I the meanwhile you and your roommate should get some earplugs.... |
05-26-2006, 02:22 PM | #7 |
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| Does she sleep with you? When mine start to bark, I snap at thm with my hand like a pack leader would do with it's mouth. Use your fingers to nip at her shoulder. In fact today I was carrying both dogs, one in each hand and one started to chew at my fingers, well since I had my hands full I could not correct him with my hand, I literally snapped at him with my teeth and made a dogs snapping noise, and he stopped instantly. You have to speak their language, and that is how the leader shows disapproval. |
05-29-2006, 02:38 PM | #8 | |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Antonio Tx
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| This really works! Quote:
I do this with all of my puppies, and i have to say that as soon as they get covered the go to sleep. It helps me sneek in an extra hour of sleep in the morning. Since they dont see light (the sun) they think its still night! it works, try it. and if she is not crate trained, train her to do so...She will cry and cry, but you have to ignore it. She will learn after a while...Good luck! | |
05-29-2006, 04:25 PM | #9 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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| You may think your little puppy is barking "at nothing at all." But -- she is probably hearing something. Dogs can hear things that we couldn't hear in a million years. My dogs started barking like crazy around 4 or 5 in the morning a couple winters ago. Finally, I got to see if anything was outside --- and lo and behold, there were about a dozen deer in my back yard. I never heard a thing, but my dogs sure knew they were there. I read that deer can make noises between themselves that the human ear can hear - but dogs and many other animals do hear this noise that they make. I know for sure my dogs sleep away most of the late evening until I turn off the TV and the house becomes quiet. This is when they hear all those noises outside that I don't hear - and these sounds do cause them to bark. So, if they are having one of those "barking nights," I turn the TV back on and they do settle down again. Good luck - Carol Jean |
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