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Originally Posted by brendarash  I was in my vets office one day with two of my babies, a women asked me if yorkies are barkers I said yes and when you have 6 dogs that bark it can get bad. A lady sitting in the room happened to be a dog trainer , she aked me if I tried a small air horn ? I said no ,wouldnt that be to load ? she said you use the small ones for boats, She said try it, it works. I talked to the vet about it . She said to try it. So I stopped at the local K-mart and got the smallest one I could find. The next day as a neighbor waked past the front of the house walking her dog. I said okay I am going to try this horn. I said look Mom has a horn and shook the horn, I said "Stop", Mom is going to get the horn. They kept barking,So I gave 1 small tap to the horn. They all stopped and looked at me. I said Horn.That is all I have to say when they all start barking. I say "wheres my horn" they all stop. To this day I do not even have to blow it except when they get really worked up and do not listen. I say where is my horn they stop and go lay down.It is loud but not as bad as I thought it would of been. It works real good. |
I loved the way you connected the word horn with the sound, and now all you have to do is threaten them.
I see nothing wrong with this type of training, you are making an unpleasant noise that matches their unpleasant noise. I use to use coins in a can with Joey, but they didn't work when we had the cable guy here doing work, and Joey was going nuts. I got the "Bark Repeller" at Amazon, and have been very happy with the results. It makes an unpleasant noise that humans can't hear, and all I have to do is point it at him and he quiets down. I do let him do his regular barking, but he has to quite down when I say enough. I've wondered about the air horns, and that will be my next step if this stops working.