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New Puppy! Now...how to make her stop barking? [WITH PICS!]
nakirush
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Hello H/A!
Meet Echo. She is a 12 week old boxer/lab/dalmation (we think) rescue who has recently joined our family. She is a well behaved, intelligent pup and she is always eager to please.
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We have been clicker training her for about two weeks now and she is catching on very fast; almost 100% house trained, knows sit, fetch and lie down, and is doing very well on her leash training. She gets along with our other dog (Max, a 13 year old Yorkie) 90% of the time, but sometimes her energy gets the best of her.
Echo LOVES to play. When she is with my husband or I she is completely content to play by herself or to sit/lay with us, but when we put her and Max outside she will try and try to get him to play with her. This can sometimes lead to long bouts of barking as she tries to get Max's attention. We are afraid this is going to piss off our neighbors, so we are trying to figure out how to teach her silence. If we go out to supervise their play she immediately quiets down.
How do we teach Echo not to bark when we are not there? I've heard of collars that give a little spray or static shock when she barks, is this a good idea? (She doesn't bark when strangers come over anyway, so I'm not afraid of her being a 'bad' guard dog.)
Thanks!
James
Meet Echo. She is a 12 week old boxer/lab/dalmation (we think) rescue who has recently joined our family. She is a well behaved, intelligent pup and she is always eager to please.
More Pics:
We have been clicker training her for about two weeks now and she is catching on very fast; almost 100% house trained, knows sit, fetch and lie down, and is doing very well on her leash training. She gets along with our other dog (Max, a 13 year old Yorkie) 90% of the time, but sometimes her energy gets the best of her.
Echo LOVES to play. When she is with my husband or I she is completely content to play by herself or to sit/lay with us, but when we put her and Max outside she will try and try to get him to play with her. This can sometimes lead to long bouts of barking as she tries to get Max's attention. We are afraid this is going to piss off our neighbors, so we are trying to figure out how to teach her silence. If we go out to supervise their play she immediately quiets down.
How do we teach Echo not to bark when we are not there? I've heard of collars that give a little spray or static shock when she barks, is this a good idea? (She doesn't bark when strangers come over anyway, so I'm not afraid of her being a 'bad' guard dog.)
Thanks!
James
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That puppy is cute as fuck too.
My housemates are teaching their pup both to bark on "speak" as well as make a quite woof on "whisper".
It seems to be kind of working. At least gives the dog an idea that we care bout what kind of sounds they make.
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If she's barking because she wants to play, it really means you need to exercise her until she's tired. Yeah, I know, this can get annoying, when you want to do your own thing, but exercising your dog is one of the best ways to prevent unwanted behavior (mostly because you'll be with your dog so much that you can stop unwanted behavior immediately).
Maybe not quite the same thing, but a little relevant and maybe the idea of teaching her to do something would be helpful?
...But chromdom's reading works just as well!
Sorry whoever you are!