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barking training
This has probably been addressed several times here - but I can't find any
of the posts besides one that I can't really follow. Someone in the neighborhood recently left us a note about one of our dogs barking and we originally passed it off as a new neighbor or someone having a bad day since they live across the street from the neighbors behind us and several houses up and none of our actual neighbors have ever complained. However after having talked to the person we found out they've noticed it for a while and tried to hold off complaining until they had a reasonable solution, and as we walked up the street that these people live on after a snowstorm sure enough dog #3 was barking away at absolutely nothing and clearly taking advantage of our not being home. We have 3 dogs, all of which bark, but only one barks loudly, continuously and mostly when we're gone - just sits on the back porch barking. The dogs have free run of the yard and house and we do rely on them to alert us to things that are actually going on in the yard or driveway (15 pounds of fury woke us up in time to scare off a guy stealing the tires off of one of our car). Does anyone have experience try ing to reduce the random or just for fun barking in a situation like this? I've seen an outdoor 'sonic corrector' that seems to make an irritating noise when they bark -- has this worked for anyone or does it just add an irritating noise to the commotion? We also looked the citronella collars, but we don't want the barker to be punished for other sounds or for the smaller dogs barking near her. So far I've only found citronella collars that are trigger by a microphone -- Has anyone had luck with these or found one that is triggered by a vibration like some of the shock collars? Does anyone know if the citronella stings their eyes or just annoys them with the strong smell? We're not interested in using a shock collar. thanks, anna |
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