How Do You Stop Your Dog Barking at Other Dogs While on Their Daily Walk?
December 8, 2009 by Dog Lover
Filed under Stop Dog From Barking
My male beagle and lab are both desexed and are still under a year of age.
How do you successfully train them not to bark at other dogs while on their walk without using shock collars or the like?
Thank you.
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well puppies are more likely to bark because they are more anxious the meet new dogs, or they are not comfortable/ use to the new surroundings. but to make them stop barking you might: when they start to bark yank the leash a little (only hard enough to get their attention) and say ‘no’ in a strong voice…
they will prob. bark less as they get older too, but the leash yanking tecn. seemed to work for my dogs!
good luck
OK, you are going to have to get used to the idea of a collar correction. You don’t necessarily have to use a choke or pinch collar, but you will have to learn to pull hard and fast on their collars to get their attention. First, carry treats with you all the time. When you see another dog coming, give them a command to look at you while giving treats (may have to walk dogs separately to teach this) and incorporate the “leave it” command. Once they understand the game, tell them to leave it the minute they see the other dog. You have to also be confident as your uncertainty will travel down the leash like electricity and energize the dogs to action. You being nervous when another dog comes around the corner will only escalate the behavior. If the dogs don’t leave it immediately, give a firm yank on the leash and reward them for looking at you (food or praise). This behavior will come with time an patience.
we just tell them no, thigthens the leash (we use long leashes so we wrap them up so the dog walks by our foot if the dog starts yanking) and keeps walking as if there is nothing out of the ordinary, they eventual learns that we aint goint to stop and meet/greet every person and animal on our way.
I’ve found that just a simple correction [sharp but controlled tug on the leash] and calling their name so that they look at you will eventually reduce if not eliminate their problem with barking at other dogs. However, some dogs are just very unfriendly to unfamiliar dogs, or very prone to bark, which is the case with all the beagles I’ve known.
My dog is not allowed to approach other dogs. He is allowed to bark at them as much as he wants. We have a problem with people from the city dropping their unwanted dogs in our community. My dog’s barking alerts us to these dogs so that we can ‘deal’ with them before they become a problem.
put a shock caller