[senorasmith1977]

I have an almost 2.5 year old male Morkie. He is the smartest little guy ever and seemingly perfect EXCEPT for a few issues that, for the life of me, we cannot figure out! We live in a large neighborhood and a lot of people and dogs are constantly walking in front of our home. He will bark nonstop at anyone who is walking by and if they are running then it's on a whole different level. He doesn't just bark.....he shakes and whines and screams and jumps on the wood blinds (hasn't broken them yet but it's coming) and absolutely loses all sense of anything he knows. It's like we aren't even in the picture when trying to calm him down or get his attention. It's literally like a switch flips and he becomes a different dog and we can do nothing to get him calmed down. We've went to him and told him "No", removed him from the window, took him to time out and made him stay until the people are gone, scolded him, ignored him, went to him and picked him up and "thanked him" for letting us know someone is out there, asked him to come and gave him a treat, made him sit and watch someone walk by and tried to recondition his brain with treats that this is a good thing when people walk by, etc. I've done everything I literally know to do and I am aware I've probably done too much and have confused him in the process. Shutting the blinds does not help either. The little guy can literally be in a a dead sleep on the sofa and he can sense that someone is walking down the road and will jump up out of a dead sleep and run to the window and if the blinds are shut he just pushes his little self in behind them and throws the blind out of his way and starts jumping and screaming and carrying on. I have a lot of windows and I cannot keep him from every window in my our home. And I do NOT like my blinds shut but have found myself for the past 2 years having to keep them shut moreso than not. So the same person that he is barking at and going crazy over walking in front of my house, could literally come in our home and he would lick all over them and want to play and lay in their lap. He doesn't act this way to people in our home. He does get overly excited when someone comes in but he's not crazy or defensive to them. And I can take him to TJMaxx and Marshall's and places like that and for the most part he doesn't bark at anyone there either even if they try to pet him. On occasion, he has barked at a few people and honestly I think he just senses that some people are not good people. But, it doesn't matter who is walking in front of our house or through the neighborhood.....if he sees them, he's going to go crazy. He's even been at home with my husband and my daughter and I are on a walk and he will see us way up in the distance and he barks at us and goes crazy just like we are strangers. When I take him on walks, he picks and choses the other walkers he wants to bark at. I never know who he is going to bark at and who he isn't. But, if they have another dog with them he will go insane 100% of the time.....big dog or little dog. And, if we are ever at TJMAxx or Marshall's or anywhere that another dog is, he 100% loses it each and every time. A neighbor brought her dog for a walk in front of our home one time and we tried to let them socialize and he barked constantly in this little dog's face to the point that the other little dog felt the need to start defending herself. So we couldn't allow that to continue obviously. Does anybody have any advice on what I can do to make him know that he does not need to bark at everyone who walks by? Honestly, if he just went over and barked to notify me, I wouldn't mind but as I've said he literally flips his switch and it's like he's a totally different dog. I feel as though he is trying to protect us but I don't know how to change his mindset. I have even tried CBD oil and while he LOVES it and I don't mind giving it to him, it didn't make a difference in the barking. Also, my neighbor, whom he loves is constantly out back at her pool with all of her grown children and grandchildren and he sits in front of the window and watches them with no problem. He does not know the children or the grandchildren.....only my neighbor. And, they are loud. I don't mean that in a bad way.....just saying they will be playing and yelling and having a huge party and he just sits and watches them. But, let this same neighbor be in front of her house going to the mailbox or watering flowers and he goes ballistic! I can tell this is a huge anxiety-ridden problem for him but I don't know why it is a trigger or how to help him. And, I hate to just throw him on an anxiety medication when at all other times he's a perfect little dog. He just lays around and sleeps or plays toys with or without us, chews his bully sticks, etc... just a perfect little dog until he hears a noise and thinks it may be someone walking by. He will even sit on the back of the sofa or in front of a side window just "on guard" waiting and watching for someone to walk by like it's his job. Even with the blinds shut, he will sit there and just watch and wait. Obviously, when I see him doing this I will redirect his attention and play or do something else with him to get him out of that mode.....sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Someone please help.....I am willing to try anything that is humane!