As Ms. Pryor reminds us, (positive) punishment is a very common and human response, along with being ineffective and the least benevolent way to handle the problem. Have you watched “Wilfred” at all? She recently posted a video about recall from “fence running.”. By Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D. Oes Fido's barking at visitors make you a little nervous? Barking at you (attention, food prep, leashing up): Since this takes a loooooooong time to wait out, after maybe 10 seconds from start, I insert a quick, small body movement (eg head turn, shoulder pivot) that catches the dog’s attention and momentarily stops the barking. She does not find lying down or holding things in her mouth incompatible with barking like many other dogs do! Within three hours he had ceased barking and resorted to standing up, wagging, and growling at the pigeons, which was totally fine with me. It does help if we are actually holdi g him on a leash all the time, as opposed to putting him on a cable, but that is also not practical when setting up camp or doing work. And it goes on and on. People too, for that matter- even among the most straight-faced and matter-of-fact humans, isn’t there still some emotion there? I’m not sure if the UPS guy hates our dog because she hates him or the other way around. I always come home, so she is always reinforced. I also think Ellen’s comments are important, at least in terms of teaching “place” meaning “settle down” and the impact of helping dogs learn to quiet their emotions as well as their mouths. I swear his eyes glaze over when he’s barking like this and he cannot be distracted. Same with screaming back, which I try not to do, but when the house has been really quiet, or I am reading a scary book, it sometimes just happens. But is it? Dog barking results from their association with us. I learned so much, enjoyably, easily. Does Queenie run into the closet when you turn on the vacuum or cower when trucks pass? The deep quality of it makes me interpret it as a warning. That is how many comments on here sound to me. I’ve never tried this but it sounds like it has potential: Dogs can’t bark when they are sucking on peanut butter. If your books aren't from those sources, you can still copy them to your Kindle. Sweet, people-pleasing Maddie who would not dream of trying to tell her people anything. Interestingly, once the students begin their lessons, Zoey is usually lying under their chairs, snoozing away. Method 6 (put the behaviour on cue, then don’t give the cue) has always seemed problematic to me. She has an alert *head thrown back* ‘Bow wow wow wow wooo’ bark when she can hear or small potential human territory invaders. My own dogs are Staffordshire Bull Terriers, and don’t tend to bark a lot, though they make plenty of other noises. There is nothing like a howl from a Dane that was learned from a Missouri borne and bred beagle. It seems that he is hearing or smelling critters or bugs underground when he does that. Learning just to be a dog has been an adventure for her and me. As such, they argue, dogs don’t need love from us, they just need to know their place. For example, I teach my dogs to go potty on cue. Who has time to bark when they’re trying to solve an amazing scent puzzle?! I then realized that I had let him practice that route regularly. With my standard poodle, we mostly focused on an incompatible behavior. I haven’t tried it with dogs, but you can reward your dog for one “announcing” bark, and then divert them to another task. Some is stranger alerting, some sheer OTT excitement – they are far more likely to bark in the first few minutes of a walk. ; I started with friends who wouldn ’ t help with the dog needs bath. Hip dysplasia bark company — ai yi yi tootsie falls into that ;. 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