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Enough Barking ! It is easy to teach a puppy to be quiet. It is harder to teach a dog to stop barking once it has become a problem. Excessive barking is 99 % your fault. I can hear your groan, but honesty and tough love made me say it. You can teach your dog a new barking protocol. Dogs bark for many reasons. Alert barking is good. Bark, Bark someone is in our yard. Bark Bark, I hear someone knocking at the door. Bored barking: I want to play whine, paw at your leg, yip, yip, drop the ball, yip, yip. Is not allowed anymore. I want, what I Want Barking: scratching at the door, whine, yap, yap, hey let me in the bathroom with you. No, it not permited after today. Chalange Barking: On walks at the doggy park etc. NOT Acceptable. Play Barking: Acceptable 1. Three Alert Barks are allowed. Say Good BARK. This lets your dog know they have done their job. You will take care of it from there. Then, Say your cue word for them to stop, always use the same word. We say 'ENOUGH' and when they are quiet, say Good QUIET. 2. Start by teaching your dog these three words Bark, Enough, and Quiet. When you are doing regular things together like, playing ball, when feeding, going for walks, etc. When your dog barks say ’Bark’ this puts a name on the behavior. (or Speak, Talk what ever seems natural to you) Remember it is their job to give three alert barks. You respond with Enough. When I cue with ’Enough’, I automatically make a slicing motion with my hand. I don’t teach this as a hand signal but, people have pointed out I do it every time. So maybe it is a verbal and visual cue for the dog. When your dog gets quiet, Say Good Quiet. If your dog keeps barking after you have said Enough, wait a few seconds, it takes about 5 seconds for them to understand and do what you ask. Then spray with short swift blast of water. The water is just to break that barking trance. Do not drench your dog. Redirect them if they are fixated on something. As soon as they are quiet, praise with ‘Good Quiet’. 3. You can teach your dog bark on cue. When they alert bark we simply say ’Bark, bark, bark. It only takes a few days for a puppy to understand that they can start and stop barking. The action has a name, and barking doesn’t just happen. Like potty training, self control about barking is taught. After a few days of hearing Bark, Enough, and Quiet. Your dog is ready to learn to bark on cue. Just before you feed your dog or give a very tasty treat, cue him with ‘Bark’ it may take a few minuets of dancing and spinning but, he will bark. Say Good Bark and reward with the food or treat. 4. *This is really important, NEVER reward barking that you did not ask for. Only reward Quiet with praise and pets. Yorkies are very smart. If they learn they can bark when ever they want, they think they can train you to respond by saying Enough. And if they stop barking and sit. Then you will say Good Quiet and give them a treat. You have taught them to bark more. DO NOT GIVE treats for Quiet. Good Quiet is praise. Like good Sit, Good Potty and so on. Your dog will figure it out. Just like they learned to sit. If you ask them to sit, you reward that. But if they are just sitting around, you don't clap, praise and treat. Barking is the same way. It is their job to alert with three barks, then be quiet. The goal is teach them when it is ok to bark and for how long. 5. If you practice this exercise your Yorkie will be a well manered companion. He will learn all about barking protacall. He will make you proud, after all he is not an ordinary dog, he is a Yorkie ! |
Very good tips, esp #4!! |
Theresa I just wanted to tell you I think you are really a blessing to this forum. You give such well thought out advice, I thought I had my own way of controling the barking but Im Im going to try your method so that also goes to show you can teach an old dog new tricks. I really enjoy reading your posts |
Wonderful post! I will try this out! |
Thanks for the tips. I have used "Enough" with my pups in the past when they bark to alert me. Now they tend to stop when I acknowledge them. With two they are sometimes a little more stubborn than when I had one. I am lucky most of the time, my pups tend to bark when they play with each other or when someone is at the door - I always know when UPS drops off a package even when they do not ring the doorbell. Abby does bark to tell me that her ball has rolled under the couch and then Max runs to me very concerned. As soon as Abby sees me coming her way, she stops barking and just looks under the couch to show me where the ball is (at least that is what I like to think she is doing). My issue comes when I come home. They are in the master bathroom all day and when they hear me come home, they bark and jump. Excited to see me, I know, but not something I want to continue. I am trying to deal with the jumping, as when they see me they stop barking. I do not talk to them until I can see them. In the back of my mind I am worried they will jump and get their paw caught in the gate and hurt themselves. I tell them off and then guide them to sit before I will pick them up. To add to this, I have a dog sitter that comes in mid-day to play with them. I have asked her not to talk to the pups until she goes into the bedroom and they can see her. (This also helped with Max's excited pee issues.) I asked her to put her hand out, palms down, and guide them off the gate to a sit. Any suggestions for how to teach the pups not to jump on the gate when I come home or when the dog sitter comes over? |
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Thanks will start training in the morning.:thumbup: Bark@ulater !!!!! manina,miley and max |
Teresa, thank you so much for writing this, I'm sending it to Ann and she can make this a sticky, what a valuable piece of information! Lol, I'm also printing a copy for hubby! |
This is the same method I used to teach Tibbe to bark on cue and then stop barking except for the water bottle. I don't use that method, just the sound "uh on" when he makes a mistake. Also I don't limit him to 3 barks but that is usually all he does unless there is something really going on and then I want him to create a noise until I tell him to stop. Now to get him to stop barking, it usually only takes a look his way and he stops. They get to know us so well they usually do what we want in advance of asking!!! |
Off the Gate :animal-pa Keeping doggies from jumping on a gate can be done several ways. It is best if the gate does the correction. 1. My hubby cut a piece of plexi glass the width of the door frame.(Actualy he had the Lowes guy cut it.) We use these as our gates The dogs have nothing to catch their claws on. You can also have it cut taller than a normal gate. Decorative drawer knobs (4) hold the plexi glass. Simply slide the plexi glass up above the knobs to remove it. 2. You can tape poster board (or card board) on the gate. I don't like this as much as option # 1. Because some dogs chew on it, and they can not see out. 3. Save empty plastic soda bottles and tie them to the gate, like wind chimes. Keep the strings short. You can use garden string, yarn or twine.The idea with this is it make the gate feel wobbly as the bottles move. 4. A clear plastic shower curtain can be used on a tention rod inside the door frame to cover the gate. Heavy plastic shower curtains are easy to cut to the size you want to use. Make sure your dog is not a chewer if you try this. 5. You can be the gate police and correct with a firm, 'OFF' every time they jump on the gate. Hope this helps. |
The empty water bottle idea is genious! |
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Thank you so much for this!! Geno is not a huge barker but there's always the possibility that later on he might start. This is great!!! :) |
Thank you, Mrs. Ford! :) I always look forward to reading your posts, they are so sensible and clear and 'just right'. Thank you for helping us all! Sally + Harry x |
Thanks for the suggestion. I will try the plexi glass. My pups love to chew on stuff so I think that is the best option. Thanks again. |
I don't have any gates but I can relate to the barking. Gracie does not bark a lot but she started barking at me when she wanted to play. At first I thought, ' Oh, this is cute.' But after a while if I did not respond right away she would get more aggressive in her barking. Demanding is more the word I guess. I finally started to tell her no and would not play if she tried barking at me to get her way. She has a tendency to be a bit bossy so I have to be careful not to let her trick me in to things. She now knows that barking is a no and does not produce the response she would like. |
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