Re: Pets
Originally Posted by
Lyle
Originally Posted by
Andre
Ok Lyle help me please , barking at anything that moves.Two of them triggers for each other and they go at it singly as well.They are three,they know it pisses us off but dont give a rats.
Thought about squirting the hose over them each time they bark and go off outside but really lifes too short to go running out there of a night.
They shut up when you yell shut up but then it just happens again.
Luckily for me I haven't had much trouble with Biff (my dog) when it comes to barking...we thought he was barkless for the longest time.
#1 I have heard that taking a flashlight and shining it on a dog at night will stop them from barking. I guess it's kind of like a startle reflex (which is how I trained my dog so well). Anyway you shine the light on them, discipline them and eventually you can phase out either the light or the discipline whichever is easiest. Or whenever they bark bring them inside and discipline them immediately.
#2 There's a special collar you can get to stop a dog from barking or teach them not to bark. The bark, they get something harmless yet not fun sprayed in their face and eventually they stop barking.
#3 You can get a shock collar and really you should only have to zap them once because there are special shock collars that have a vibrate and a shock setting so to condition (in other words to teach) the dog to know that the vibrate setting means he's pushing it you just taps vibrate then immediately tap shock and eventually all you have to do is tap vibrate and they will clam up.
I used the "Startle Reflex" to train my dog to stop doing bad things by snapping or clapping really loud and this made him stop whatever he was doing leaving him open to suggestion. I got so good with just asserting my dominance over my dog without saying a command that just by clapping and pointing at him he'd imnmediately roll over on his back in a submissive state.....but I still have trouble with him "greeting" company he howls at them and keeps his guard up for a while but that's part of the watch dog in him so I'm kind of trying to work on that myself.
My mother in-law used this because one of her dogs went crazy barking every night, the collar worked for the most part but the spray stuff smells like Cintronella and her house reeks of it.
What we used for the startle reflex was a soda can with coins in it, whenever Shorty (RIP), Brahma (RIP) or Vishnu would misbehave we would just immediately shake the can. We were fortunate that it has worked with all our dogs. I have heard a lot of people saying it didn't work for them.
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