Thanks MomToHotRod, she is very socialized with other animals as her previous home had 11 other dogs and 2 cats. She does very well with animals with no growling or barking, it is just other people.
I don't know if I can do any classes at this time as I am about to have to take her to the vet for general check up and spay surgery so something like that will just have to wait, her health check is more important financially at this time.
Kjc, how do you go about praising her desirable behavior, do you do that when she is done barking at people all crazy? Usually she is barking from the back porch so people aren't stopping to say hello or pet her. It is also rare occasion that this happens also when we are walking, it is just usually joggers or walkers passing by us and not stopping to socialize. She likes to stop to sniff around the grass so would me not continuing the walk really make a difference to her?
I can see about carrying a can of coins, but if she disregards the very loud honking whistle noise would this make the difference? It may be the sound difference that will help, right?
And Jeanm, are those products safe? I have heard that they could be detrimental to the ears or just not work at all. I wouldn't mind trying something like that, it wouldn't be as bulky as a can of coins and loud as I do walk the dog later at night before bed and since I live in a community shaking loud coins in a can might cause complaints. |