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12-06-2014, 11:20 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Alaska
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| I need Joel to bark Joel only barks at other dogs or kids outside, but not important things. Like when someone was stealing our tires last year lol. I always was worried because with the daycare we had to teach him that it's normal for strangers to come around the house and to not bark. Last night Milo was over and he barks at EVERYTHING lol. I heard two loud noises outside and Milo started barking so I checked and didn't see anything. Then this morning my sister said someone went in her car because her door was left open some and the console was lifted up and she didn't even know it came up lol. But all they took was a stack of receipts. I think Milo barking like crazy is why nothing else was missing and if he wasn't here they would have taken a lot more. Joel would have just watched them from the window he he. How do I teach Joel to bark at strangers but not new daycare parents coming to the house? |
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12-06-2014, 04:16 PM | #2 | |
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hahaha....oh Joelllll!!!
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12-06-2014, 04:41 PM | #3 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Teach him to bark on command by instantly sticking a special, luscious piece of chicken in his mouth every time he barks, then begin to add the work "Bark!" and a hand signal as he begins to bark and he is instantly fed his chicken bits, simultaneously praise with "good bark!" and your smiles, pats, tickles. Before long, he should be eager to be asked to bark so he can get his treat and praise. After he's 100% barking on command, every time you hear or see something you want him to bark at, widen your eyes so he can see you, give the bark command, praise/treat/tickle,pat every time he responds correctly and withhold treats and praise if he doesn't. Repeat the exercise for only 2 minutes or so per session two to four times a day over and over until he begins to learn when to bark and begins to anticipate your commands, barking on his own. Encourage the heck out of this every time he does it. He should learn in time to strike out on his own and begin barking when things you've requested he bark at in the past appear or can be heard. His learning mechanisms for this kind of command will be repetition and association and he'll begin to connect your past requests to bark with certain situations on his own initiative to please you ahead of your commands, as all dogs love to show off their amazing prescience, once they know what we like or want. In time, merely widening your eyes or giving the hand signal to bark will be all it takes to get him barking like crazy and after a while longer, you won't even need to do that - he'll have learned when it's appropriate to bark - what sounds, sights and situations require his vocal barking response.
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