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01-14-2014, 01:16 PM | #1 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| Territorial barking Today, Huey perpetuated the yippy small dog myth. Sorry to everyone with well trained dogs. He has always been territorial at home, meaning if someone is in the yard or even in the street in front of the yard, he barks at them. Over the last few years, he has become territorial when in the car; he barks at anyone close to his car, the drive thru people, cars next to us at stop lights, etc. Until today, he has always been a complete angel as soon as he is out of the car. I have taken him into all kinds of stores and he doesn't make a peep. I always take him when I get my oil changed. All the mechanics know him and they have a little waiting room where we "hold court" until the car is ready. Today, that waiting room also became "HIS". He barked at the mechanics on the other side of the glass door, at customers in the parking lot, and generally made a massive nuisance of himself. I absolutely could not get him to stop barking until he was ready. Now, when people came in to love on him, he was quiet and excited to be petted. Any ideas? The drive through is annoying enough, but I can't take him out in public if he is going to be a butt. He doesn't get out much as it is, and I enjoy taking him out and about to see people, and he seems to enjoy it. He was just out of control today, and I was embarrassed - I felt like one of those ineffective parents who say "hush, Timmy" but don't make little Timmy stop. The difference is, if it was a skin kid, I could bust a bottom. I obviously can't do that with Huey. Suggestions?
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01-14-2014, 02:09 PM | #2 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| You can train this out of him. It will take some time and some work but you'll both enjoy it. I'd start him on a good, fun, rewarding short series of obedience training sessions where he's amply rewarded with your pride in him, praise, smiles and treats for quickly obeying your commands. Keep the sessions very upbeat, fun and get him into learning - really working at it. Make one of the commands the "Bark" command. Once the dog is barking on command - easy to do - in time you can then introduce the "Quiet" command once he stops barking on his own and then teach him to stop on command. This command rewards him for stopping barking and he gets great praise and a special treat for it every single time he quietens on command. A dog can be trained to be just about as happy to stop barking as he is to bark if you work at it properly and truly motivate him. Also train him to "Watch me" so that he focuses only on your eyes for long periods of time for his praise and reward. This is a helpful command to use when a dog is out and about and getting excited in addition to the "Quiet". In time, if you work hard at your part of it and keep it fun, patient, always loving and rewarding, he'll learn to always respond to you - even with cats, other dogs and exciting things going on in the background. If you do it right and make him want to obey you, it's great fun for the dog. They will do just about anything for us when the reward is great enough, your pride and happiness in them is very obvious to them and the training is fun and on a regular schedule. They come to adore the training sessions and will beg you for them. In time and with enough fun repetition, dogs learn to automatically respond to what a good trainer wants because it's fun and VERY rewarding to them do so. They feed off a good trainer's very positive response to their performing the command and getting their praise and reward. Dogs love our smiles and pride when they get it right. And they work for food! Treats are like words of love to them! After a good basic training regimen of a couple of months, training the dog outside and taking it through its commands in public places for a few minutes reinforces this and will teach your little one that no matter what, he's going to want to do what you ask him to 99% of the time, even when he's hyper and exciting things are happening with strangers coming and going, etc. When training a dog in a public place, I always use only the best of treats - warm, boiled chicken or turkey hotdogs in a zipper treat pouch - and use my most enthusiastic voice and attitude to compete with the surrounding atmosphere for the dog's attention. You cannot scrimp on the treats here - use only the most enticing. But a well trained dog will have been conditioned to respond to his trainer and it won't take him much time to get into the groove. Taking a pro-active approach to training a dog and getting him accustomed to ALWAYS listening to and obeying you is all that will help in a situation like this and it will take time to get there but dogs are such terrific quick studies and enthusiastic learners when sufficiently motivated by their trainer, it will happen! They can't help it - they are suckers for our approval when they've been trained to respond to us. And training a dog makes them the happiest, best pets ever. And you can use that training successfully to keep an excited, hyper dog quiet in public and avoid him ever becoming territorial because he'll have learned it's actually far more rewarding to him to please you, his trainer and pack leader. I'm not saying it's easy peasy, but it's lots of fun for the dog and for you and it really, really works.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
01-15-2014, 05:35 AM | #3 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| Thanks, Jeanie. This year, my goal is to work on myself and my dog-exercise & training-for both of us!
__________________ Huey's mom, Marilyn :When a day starts & ends with puppy kisses, I can handle anything that comes in between! |
01-15-2014, 06:14 AM | #4 |
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| Max and Teddy territorial bark when we drive in and out of the neighborhood. Part of the problem is we can't walk in our neighborhood anymore, and I know they miss it. This is an area I need to work on with my boys. Thank you Jeanie for the tips. The rest of their barking in the car is a game to see who can spot delivery trucks, school buses, and motorcycles first, and who can bark loudest. When the drivers wave, point, and smile, it just eggs them on. Max and Teddy laugh and bark some more.
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01-15-2014, 10:42 AM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Because of my back situation, Tibbe is very mostly under-socialized in that I can't take him out and about a lot so I realized early on when I got him that the only way I could ever keep this door-darting, opinionated, feisty wild-child in check was to train him to respond to me and learn to love doing it. He does love people and other dogs and cats, though, even though we don't get out to the dog park and many social occasions. He's a little hesitant to let people get that close to him though unless I'm nearby and then it's full ahead joy for him. Still, I positively reinforce almost everything he does involving a command or request I give him. I sometimes practically kill myself over-reacting, dancing around, etc., and always giving him immediate positive feedback when he obeys so that the payoff is immediate and gratifying for him, even when just coming in the house from going out to potty or standing still to be brushed. Not always but often he gets lots of hand-clapping, fist-pumping, jumping about, speaking in a squeaky little voice and smiling and petting/stroking, getting in his face and telling him what a gooood boy he is, how smart he is and giving him a treat and it all serves to make him happy to make me happy as that makes him so happy that he just did what I asked of him. And the training and watching him get so much out of the learning and doing and praising makes him crazy happy and proud, so it's impossible not to enjoy his training, even on my bad days. But it does pay off with a usually well-behaved little guy.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
01-15-2014, 11:55 AM | #6 | |
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I never scold any of them for it, and count very heavily on them alarming for various reasons. When they get it right, they get treats and are praised highly, when not so right, I just don't do anything. The younger Dogs get the idea of who's who and what to bark at pretty quick.
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01-15-2014, 12:43 PM | #7 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Great advice. Consistency is the key for us. I never let it go for long. They're allowed a few alert barks, but when I say No Bark they know it's time to stop. I taught it like every other trick. They were rewarded for compliance. Little dogs bark. It's one of the few defense mechanisms they have. It's not wrong. But they do have to learn when it's appropriate. Always address it and never let it slide.
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