Dog Health Questions: How do I train my dog not to bark at strangers?

Hi, my name is Susy. I am 14 and I train dogs for agility and obedience. I understand them and why they do the things they do. The only exception is BARKING. I have a gorgeous Golden Retriever puppy who is about 8 months old. She is the sweetest little girl I have ever owned and I love her to death! She is very smart and obedient. I just don't understand why I can't recall her when she takes off to bark at people walking down my street. I call her and call her and people are starting to get very annoyed. I am thinking about building a fence around the property but my parents are reluctant about the cost of it.

I will most certainly NOT use a shock collar or an underground shocking fence. I consider this physical harm to try to train the dogs to do what you want them to. It's just like hitting a dog to get them to sit. It is VERY cruel. Victoria Stilwell said so herself that shock collars are disgusting and inhumane.
I DO NOT WANT YOUR INPUT ON MY OPINION OF SHOCK COLLARS AND UNDERGROUND COLLARS. KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. NOTHING WILL EVER CONVINCE ME TO SHOCK MY DOG INTO DOING SOMETHING I WANT HER TO!

I follow all of Victoria Stilwell's dog training advice. She is my idol. I don't want anyone to chastise my opinion on her training. If you do I will close the topic and re post. I will not put up wqith any chastism on my ideas.

Agaim, I absolutely will not put a shock collar on my dog. So don't even dare to suggest it please!

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try simple tools like Bark Off!! they are cheap and they are effective from my experience..

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• Well I don't know if it would work in every case, but when my dog was a puppy I taught him "Look at me" Basically pointing at my face, making him stare at me for 5 seconds or so, then treating him. This has proved handy as a way to distract him from things. He used to have a thing about barking out the window at people and "look at me" worked. You could try going into the yard with her on a long leash , and having people walk by while you practice either recall, "quiet" or whichever command you use.


• You seem to be a very opinionated young lady for 14! You train dogs for agility and obedience, really at 14? No one can change your mind or voice an opinion about their ideas, why did you ask the question then?
  
  Since you wont like most of the answers on here, I suggest you struggle on with your barking dog and as you know SO much, you won't really need our help.
  
  Only thing to say about prong or pinch collars and shock collars, if you havent' found a dog that needs it, you haven't been around many dogs yet.
  
  One thing to learn with dogs, some people have ideas that you may not have thought of, open up and try some new ideas, Victoria is great (I am English too) but there are always other options.
  
  Tried a spray bottle with water in it? Works wonders...


• Well...I would normally suggest a shock collar LOL but since you don't agree with it we'll move on.
  
  What I would suggest is getting some friends together and have them walk past your house. Have them start at a distance that your dog can see them but doesn't bark. When this happens, reward your dog. Then have them come closer, try it in 5 step intervals and reward each time the dog doesn't bark. If as the person gets closer the dog starts barking give a verbal correction, withhold the reward and break the dogs attention on the person, have the person move back to the previous spot where the dog was not barking and begin again. Repeat until you get the desired response and vary the reward schedule. Then remove yourself from the scenerio to a spot where you cant be seen and start the trials over, try a bird launcher or something like that to reward the dog so you wont be seen. Then slowly remove that. It will take some time.

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Dog Health Questions: Dog training video.........................…

I got a video from the animal shelter and it showed you how to do train your new dog and fun things to do with it. my mom threw it away and ive been trying to find it online if maybe i could buy it or see it on youtube or something. it was by animal planet and the brand of dog supplies Harts sponsered it. on the front of the cover it said smart barks or something like that.thanks

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call the animal shelter to see if you can get another one..

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Dog Health Questions: Dog training?

is there any site that tells you how to train a dog? every one is like buy a book and stuff, it would really be helpful if you knew a sit that is good for training like one that gives you step by steps and stuff mabey a video. my pomeranian is a year old and isnt trained very well, so ya please help:)

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You could always check out a book at your local library. Its free!

Maybe do a youtube search for training videos.

Here's also a site that has great training videos;
http://www.petvideo.com/

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• No dog is born with good manners. Pooping on the carpet, leaping enthusiastically onto guests, pulling so hard he practically yanks your arm out of the socket when on walks -- that's all perfectly acceptable in the canine world. It's up to you to teach your dog to behave the way we humans want him to. Not training your dog and expecting him to be pleasant to live with is like never sending your child to school and expecting him to ace the SATs.
  
  here are some guidelines in training your dog:
  http://dogtime.com/training.html


• I used to belong to a Yahoo group called "Dog Training and Behavior." You might want to look for it.


• Take a dog training class. You will learn alot because there is someone there to help you when you have problems.


• http://www.perfectpaws.com/mmd.html
  check it.

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Dog Health Questions: Dog training tips?

I have a 7 month old Border Terrier that seems smart but also very defiant.

He has a problem eating things he's not supposed to. On walks he'll eat everything (poop/garbage/dead animals/dirt) & at home he goes for any food that's out. When I try to get it away he growls & nips at me (which is very out of character). He doesn't nibble/chew on it, he gulps it down.

Also, he rarely responds to his name. I know he knows it but [if he's outside (I do leash him), in another part of the house, or across the room,] when I call him he could care less.

And he barks at any disturbance (someone entering/exiting/moving around the room, noises/movement outside, appliances turning on/off, etc.). I don't mind occasional barking (playfully/protectively).

I don't remember these problems with any of my previous dogs. My last two dogs were put down at age 15. I never "trained" them, they were just very obedient/companionable; they didn't do tricks but it seemed as if they could understand English.

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Right now you have an adolescent terrier, so you have a dog of a breed that generally prefers to please themselves rather than you and at an age where even the best trained dog is likely to turn a deaf ear to what his owner wants.

Unfortunately you're going to have to "train" this dog if you want to get a dog that you want to live with. He should get nothing unless he earns it. If he wants his breakfast he needs to sit on command and wait until it's on the ground and you release him to eat. If he wants to go for a walk, he must sit calmly for you to put the leash on.

Periodically call him to you during the day to give him a treat or a pet, as much as you want, but he doesn't get either one by demanding it, annoying you for it, or begging.

I would up his physical exercise, take him on more or longer walks or play more fetch with him.

Even more importantly I would up his mental exercise. Teach him tricks and/or obedience commands. Try to work with him on this multiple times a day. Get him thinking and working his mind on the things that you approve of so that he doesn't have to amuse himself by barking at all the sounds in the house.

Good luck

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• As for calling him, start carrying around treats. Give him a treat every time he comes for the first few days of doing this. Then gradually work your way down to a treat every other time he comes, and then every three times, until you get to none.
  
  Walk him with a choker chain, or a head collar. I've used both, and the head collar is much more effective for guiding the dogs head where you want it. Or, with just a slight tug, when he reaches down to eat whatever he's eating, you can bring his head back up.
  
  As for the nipping when he's eating... That's going to take a bit of time. When you're handing him food, right as he reaches to get it, take your hand back and say in an authoritive voice, "easy." And then hand it to him. He should slow down approaching your fingers the second time. And for eating out of a bowl, start by touching him as you're putting the food in the bowl, and ease your way to petting him while he's eating. Start petting him on his back, and very gradually, work your way to his shoulders, and then the top of his head. Do this several days, and then work your way to petting him around his cheeks, only when you feel comfortable to do so. If you get tense, your dog will also get tense.
  
  And.. You should have another person there just in case anything does go wrong.
  
  Good luck. :] Hope I helped, if even a little.


• You don't say what kind of dogs your others were, but that might be a difference. Terriers are typically independent dogs. I wouldn't call him defiant, simply an untrained dog doing what has worked for him.
  
  He's eating things that he enjoys. He has found that growling and nipping at you get you to leave him alone long enough for him to consume his "treat" so he continues doing it -- and the behavior will get stronger every time he succeeds at doing this.
  
  Responding to his name doesn't get him anything nearly as rewarding as doing what he wants at the moment, so he could care less. You will get him to come when you call when he gets something far more rewarding for coming than for continuing what he's doing. Start by calling him when he's not involved in anything and when he arrives give him several small pieces of chicken. I bet he'll start coming.
  
  Really, all the things you complain about are training issues. You need to get with a positive reinforcement trainer and work with him. You are going to need to give it time for him to become reliable with distractions, etc.


• I recommend you visit the website that I went to when my dog had behavioral issues a few months back. The program teaches you various methods you can use yourself to solve common dog issues. It totally transformed my dog. Good luck!


• Find here dog tips

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Dog Health Questions: Clicker Dog Training - Does it work?

I'd be interested in your thoughts and tips - or is it just another fad?

Thanks

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I was a traditional/ balanced obedience person for over 19 years, I used marker training with shy and feral dog rehab but never got into the entire "clicker thing". The last trainer I worked under was the definition of "Traditional" and she almost broke my dog, my dog was defined as "stubborn", "dominant" and "passive aggressive" by her. My girl was starting to become reactive and fearful of other dogs and was only escalating with each class. About this time, I started free shaping with the clicker to teach her more advanced tricks and behaviors at her agents request. I decided to fire the trainer and switch over to positive reinforcement based methods such as the clicker, my dogs issues resolved in about a week. Positive reinforcement is a scientifically proven method of quickly training animals, it is not a fad. Typically the only people wou will hear calling clicker training a fad are old school traditional or balanced trainers who do not want to go back to school and think PhDs are for dummies. Examples of clicker trained dogs that I know include Paige and Jesse.
add: Tasha, my border collie gets more excited for a "click" than a "good girl".

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• It most definately is NOT a fad. Why? Because it works. It's really just operant conditioning, i.e. associating the click with positive stimulus.
  
  Here's the downside though: we should be constantly reinforcing commands or teaching new commands and it's very difficult to carry a clicker with you all the time. There's an easy solution though: instead of a click use a marker i.e. a word used in place of a click, e.g. yes. So the second a command is performed properly say "yes" then treat - eventually treats will be intermittent, but saying "yes" will be constant. You can use other markers like "no" if your dog is doing something wrong or something you don't want her to do or "good" as an interim marker, e.g. your dog fetches a ball, you can say good as she's bringing it to you, and then "yes" when she delivers it to you and fulfils the command.
  
  Again, clicker training is great, but for most people marker training is more practical.


• Clicker training works for any species with a brain. Animal Behavior Enterprise (ABE) worked with over 140 species, and thousands of individual animals, reliably trained for commercial and govenrment use, sometimes requiring the animals to be away from the handlers for extended periods of time. They trained dolphins to do open ocean work, birds to take pictures, and cats to follow people for spy work. Many zoos have now converted to using clicker training for animal husbandry behaviors, such as teaching an otter to pee in a cup, a dophin to postition itself to get a tube shoved down its throat, or a gorilla to put an arm through a slot to get a daily injection of insulin.
  
  Clicker training is not as easy as some people assume, and so don't apply the principles correctly, and find it doesn't work well for them. I don't know anyone who has sucessfully clicker trained an animal who then had major trouble with another animal ("it doesn't work for all dogs") but do know many who gave up on it as not working for them, blamining the technique rather than their application of it. Many of the principles of clicker training can be incorporated using a verbal marker, but most people are more sloppy in their use of a verbal marker than when using a mechanical marker. You do not need to carry a clicker around for the rest of your life- the clicker is used in the teaching phase, then weaned off.
  
  If interested in clicker training, I suggest the clickersolutions.com website and join the list group, and watch some videos on youtube by kikopup, lovecanines, and supernaturalbc. This is a good introduction to clicker training:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC367wKGi…


• Yeah it works but it doesn't do the training for you… the clicker just lets the dog no he/she did good its basically a substitute from saying “good dog” but it works in the sense that the dog realizes hes done well after hearing the click, and knows hes going to get a treat.


• Before we got our dog we had a bunch of questions, what kind etc.
  I found this program on the internet and it worked for me on my dog mybe it will help you.
  After going through the guide, I can now see that this can work for any dog problem, because of the the way it was put together. I highly recommend this guide to any dog owner that has a problem they need to sort out.


• Yes it works good... And the clicker gets the dogs attention to focus on you. Remember to say good girl or boy the clicker does not sub for that


• It works great if you do it properly.

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Dog Health Questions: Does anyone know of place that does private dog obedience training in Gainesville, TX?

I have a 6 month old puppy that I can't break of some very annoying habits, despite having tried many things.
I'd like to try private lessons.
If public/group lessons are the only option, I could go for that. She needs socialization as well, but I think she would freak out too much at public lessons. This is the kind of dog that if she even sees an object that has another animals scent on it, she will choke herself (on the leash), and squells and whines (very loudly and endlessly) to get to it. For example I've tried introducing her to someone. After an hour of being in the prescence of the other person, she calmed down a little but still broke into fits of squelling and whining shrilly, all because I wouldn't let her run over and bite, scratch, and jump all over the person.

We only have one shelter, Noah's Ark, and I do not believe it offers lessons of any sort. Nor is there a Petco or Petsmart or anything of the sort within 50 minutes of here.

Anyway, sorry for the long explantion. With all this said, does anyone know of a place or qualified person who offers private dog training in Gainesville? If not what group training is available? Also if you know the prices that would be helpful too.

Thanks a bunch in advance!

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sorry no one is answering.

I found one luisting on this page

http://www.allprok9training.com/texas.ht…

GOOD DOGS TRAINING CENTER no address or phone number but should be in the dictionary.

Here it is. Now I don't know anything about it, just trying to help.

GOOD DOGS TRAINING CENTER
3829 E Highway 82
Gainesville,TX 76240
35.0MI from Prosper
(940) 665-5000

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Dog Health Questions: What exactly is dog training tables?

http://www.sl-prokeys.com/wffcw/ef_table…

I don't get exactly what it is or why people do it? It seems really really cruel to me. Opinions?

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It is, ethical trainers do not do it.

It is a means to terrorize the dog to force it to fight.

Are Electronic Shock Collars Great Dog Training Devices?

• It is a space that makes a dog focus on what is going on. It is NOT cruel and A LOT of knowledgeable trainers do use them on dogs that need it.
  You don't put a weak dog on a table, you don't train a weak dog actually, you just get rid of him.
  Please do not listen to idiots that have no idea what they are talking about and take that web page you are looking at with a grain of salt....it is meant to be mostly fun!!

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Dog Health Questions: Where can I find on-line dog training?

I am a proud owner of a German Shepherd Dog. He is 6 months old. I was wondering if there is any free on-line obedience training websites.

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You can check out this link:
http://www.dog-training-works.com/

There are also tons of other sites that provide what you're looking for. It's really about what your goals are.

Do you just want to teach your dog to sit, heel and stay?
Or maybe you're looking to correct a problem like aggressive behavior or potty accidents.

No matter what, do your research and learn as many methods as you can to see what's most effective for your pet training. Best of luck.

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• http://www.dogskool.com/web/trainingcour…
  
  Start by clicking on lesson one!
  
  Good Luck


• I have tried 2 online obedience courses. This one worked best for me
  http://qsoffroadinc.com/mydoglistens
  
  This is the first one I tried, was helpful but the first one I showed worked best for me
  http://qsoffroadinc.com/dogtrainer
  
  Hope that helps friend, and good luck!

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Dog Health Questions: Someone who does agility dog training?

I'm doing a research project and have to interview someone who knows about my topic. Does anyone know of someone I can interview or be willing to have me interview them if they know about agility dog training? I live in Berkeley but would be happy to do it by e-mail.

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go to some of your local dog trainers around where you live.

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• I would be more than happy to help. I have only been competing in agility a couple years, but I know a lot about agility problem solving and training difficult and stubborn dogs. You can send me a message through yahoo answers.


• I've been training and competing in agility 10 years. Send me an email if you like. shariking1@live.com

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Dog Health Questions: I heard about this dog training called super dog training is it any good?

I heard about this dog training called super dog training is it any good?
I want to teach my dog basic commands and no leash training?
I am in California.

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I checked out their site. No substance. Just a bunch of dogs (the same ones mostly) on group stay commands. Nothing super, nothing special. A bunch of old tired sayings that have nothing to do with dog training.
I am sure you can find a good local trainer to teach you to train your dog to do the same exact things for a fraction of the price.

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• Wow and someone just asked this very question five minutes ago, I will give you the same answer.
  
  Stick with a tried and true training method that has trained hundreds of thousands of dogs over the last several decades.
  
  If you are in Southern California you are in luck as there are trainers available that can teach this method.
  
  http://www.koehlerdogtraining.com


• they don't train any dogs, they just want stupid dog owners to keep their droll animals for kill them and make some dog meat

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