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Originally Posted by Teresa Ford   It really is a good idea to show them the new item. Let them sniff the item and investigate (beware my boys will pee on it, if it is an outside / garden thing and I show it to them outside).
The last time my gang did a fear bark and stranger alert (all the while backing up) was because of my new crock pot on the counter. I had to put Gracie up on the counter and let her sniff it. Then all was calm again.
Rubin has a trash thing too he will bark if the trash sticks out above the top of the can. I just empty it. LOL I don't know why it bugs him but it does. |
this approach will often work, Lola's is pretty well adjusted but recently we left an empty propane tank on the deck outside one of our doorwalls. She spotted it and i thing she thought it was alive. She watched that thing off and on for two days and barked at it. I finally put her outside next to it, I touched it, touched her paw with it, let her sniff it and so forth, after that it was like it did not exist. I did that with the vac cleaner as well.