got a new topic to pick your brains with:
miya is a herding breed and a potentially barky dog: meaning she would bark about everything and anything she sees and hears and would bark to show excitement and bark to control you etc etc...so thats "a lot'a barkin" especially since we live in the city limits and she sees a lot of people everyday pass the house.
she used to get free run of the yard and would greet all the nieghbors especially the kids in the neighborhood. But as she got older began barking...which is bad because we live in the city and barky dogs are annoying to nieghbors, so she lost that priveledge and only goes in the yard when we are with her....
my question is this: we dont need nor want her to bark unless there is a true concern/threat on our property or to our family memebers when we are out and about so how do we train her that way?
so far she is taught not to bark at all because so far nothing worthy of barking about has occurred.
(She IS allowed one "who is it?! bark" when someone comes to the door, then she is taught to go to "her spot" a few feet away and be quiet there). She is doing well with that and does it most of the time on her own now. Plus going to "her spot" keeps her from smothering people as they are trying to come in the house.
ok, how would you teach this? or will she just know innately to bark to warn/alert us if there is a danger or threat?
thanks for you input.
opcorn:
miya is a herding breed and a potentially barky dog: meaning she would bark about everything and anything she sees and hears and would bark to show excitement and bark to control you etc etc...so thats "a lot'a barkin" especially since we live in the city limits and she sees a lot of people everyday pass the house.
she used to get free run of the yard and would greet all the nieghbors especially the kids in the neighborhood. But as she got older began barking...which is bad because we live in the city and barky dogs are annoying to nieghbors, so she lost that priveledge and only goes in the yard when we are with her....
my question is this: we dont need nor want her to bark unless there is a true concern/threat on our property or to our family memebers when we are out and about so how do we train her that way?
so far she is taught not to bark at all because so far nothing worthy of barking about has occurred.
(She IS allowed one "who is it?! bark" when someone comes to the door, then she is taught to go to "her spot" a few feet away and be quiet there). She is doing well with that and does it most of the time on her own now. Plus going to "her spot" keeps her from smothering people as they are trying to come in the house.
ok, how would you teach this? or will she just know innately to bark to warn/alert us if there is a danger or threat?
thanks for you input.
opcorn: