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Originally Posted by bijoux1  I've never had this prior to my dogs now, but they both do the exact same thing!! I know for certain that one of mine was not socialized properly to say the least when he was younger, and it has been a long road to get him over his fear of almost EVERYTHING. But regarding the barking when things are new to a room, I taught them both the touch command. And when they see the new item and start barking, I now tell them touch... and if they cant reach it, I will go get it down, and they will both work up the nerve to come up and smell it and touch it, and I promise you that they are then fine with it. I don't know if this will work for yours, but it has made all the difference in the world for my two!! Because prior to finding a solution that worked for mine, a towel laid out of place would literally cause frantic barking until I removed the item....so good luck with yours!!! |
This is how mine are!!! My husband's son put a bobble head doll on a shelf downstairs, up high. I went to let my boys out and they went running down their usual way and as the shelf came into view, both came to a screeching halt and started barking like mad men. How they saw that doll was beyond me... but they did and clearly it did not belong there! I had to take it down and let them sniff it until they were sure it was not going to cause any harm to anyone, then they were fine with it. Its really funny how many little things they notice!
Most of the time, I let them stay in the room that we are doing something to, sometimes that's hard to do because they are in the way, but if they are involved with the change, they accept it more easily. So last month we took out the living room carpet, put in a laminate floor and got new furniture. They would have been beside themselves if we didn't let them in the room, but we just did it and didn't make a big deal of it and let them come & go as normal and they were fine with it.