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ChroniC

ChroniC

ChroniC

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My little dog, bless her heart is good as gold, except for one thing. She is too flipping smart.
I have trained her pretty well, she can learn something in literally minutes if she likes doing it, aka make the command, rinse and repeat with treats and she'll learn it.

However she barks in the back garden at nothing for the fun of it, so I trained her the command for quiet. The little bugger is so smart though that she worked out to get the quiet command and reward, she has to bark. Mother****** :D

I tried negative reinforcement of bringing her in (shes small) whenever she does it, however that doesnt work, she doesn't give a ****. I tried to be a bit nastier and scolded her for a while but that just made her cower a little so I stopped.
For the life of me, I cannot teach her discipline, low tones of voices don't work, treats don't work.

Anyone know what does?
 
We have a couple of dogs and positive reinforcement worked wonders with our first (Pug), but our 2nd dog (Griffon Bruxellois) just wants to dog out all the time.

I am no trainer, but she is 7 now and we have just learned to love and live with the stuff that she does.

I remember when I was in the UK, dont they have dog obedience classes etc? I remember there were a few in Hertfordshire. If it bothers you that much, it might be worth a shot?
 
nick.lidgett said:
So youre happy that your dog can do loads of cool stuff that dogs dont normally do but sad when your dog just wants to dog?
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Yeah. In a certain way. I wouldn't mind if she was barking at something, but she's just warning of the cats that have already learned not to come to the backyard en anymore. Would be alright if she stopped after say 30 seconds but she just goes for it, like Pavarotti for ages until I have to tell her to be quiet.
 
ChroniC said:
Yeah. In a certain way. I wouldn't mind if she was barking at something, but she's just warning of the cats that have already learned not to come to the backyard en anymore. Would be alright if she stopped after say 30 seconds but she just goes for it, like Pavarotti for ages until I have to tell her to be quiet.
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We find it incredibly hard to watch any TV film/program that has an animal on it. Our Griffon loses her brain and starts barking like crazy at the TV, our pug (who is usually chilled out) is unfortunately extremely short sighted and gets wound up by hearing her bark and fires up as well. He has no idea what he is barking at, and turns around in circles barking into thin air.

Its something we have learned to live with.....
 
I think you should just accept its part of the dogs personality, we have a little shih tzu cross lahso apso, he is quiet as a mouse but thick as two short planks. I cant teach that pea brain anything. His recall is great though.
 
I'm guessing the barking will be down to one of a couple of things.....

Firstly - boredom. She's bored, hears something, sees something and is looking for a distraction.

Secondly - nervousness. She is warning you, her pack, that there is something that needs your attention.

I'm guessing that if you are out there playing with her, she ignores the very same things that make her bark. Sadly, it's not easy to tell the difference scared/bored.
 
Hodders said:
I'm guessing the barking will be down to one of a couple of things.....

Firstly - boredom. She's bored, hears something, sees something and is looking for a distraction.

Secondly - nervousness. She is warning you, her pack, that there is something that needs your attention.

I'm guessing that if you are out there playing with her, she ignores the very same things that make her bark. Sadly, it's not easy to tell the difference scared/bored.
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Yeah more often that not it I'm standing in the garden she won't do it. I'd say it's a bit of both of them, she's more energetic than a Duracell bunny and I walk her a lot for a small dog. She is certainly not deprived of entertainment, games and walks.
 
You could try a vibrate collar / spray collar, but should be used sparingly. A dog should be allowed to bark as part of its natural behaviour, but not to the point they just bark at everything and cause annoyance.

Vibrate / spray collars can help with this as they will activate on bark and cause an unpleasant smell / sensation, which they will associate barking with. It tends to only stop them doing it whilst wearing the collar, so when you are ok with it you can have the collar off.
 
I have 3 dogs currently, ones a 4 month pup, we trained them all the same way, they do something good they get a treat and made a fuss of, they do something bad they get told off. If the dog is cowering because you raised your voice they know they did wrong that's the point, they will learn by it.

The 2 older dogs only bark when someone comes to the house.
 
Clov!s said:
What do you mean by that exactly?
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Pretty much when she did something wrong, instead of trying to train her to stop doing it with treats, I tried to tell her off by raising my voice, walking towards her. Generally being dominant. No ever physical force.
However being a lapdog I found it made her seem more scared of things like loud noises, so I stopped.
Plus it didn't seem to work anyway.

I really don't have a problem with her barking every now and again, being a dog etc but it almost seems like she is doing it as a ritual when being let out regardless of any threats or sounds. Like she is doing it to let people know she is there.

Efour said:
thread title misleading. says dog means, yappy, urine soaked rat.
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Sounds like it takes one to know one.
 
How far away? sounds like she's barking at the noise from that.

You can stand with her and point at the building work and try and reinforce that there is nothing to be worried about.
 
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