Dog Obedience Training - Stop your dog from barking (two interesting methods)
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Since the focus of this blog is to recommend ways to stop excessive barking, without resorting to shock collars or cruel punishment, I found this article to have some great ideas. #2 is something that I have never heard of before — but I will certainly use the idea with my Aussie. Since she is naturally hyper-sensitive (it’s her breed) this could work quite well.
Dog Obedience Training - Stop Your Dog From Barking!
By Anthony W Robinson
For a lot of people, having a dog is one of the great joys in life. Being a responsible pet owner means making sure that your dog is well taken care of, no matter what. If Fido needs to go out at 2 a.m., you get up and let him out. You make sure he’s up to date on all his shots. Then there’s food, toys, accessories, and the list goes on. We do this because we love our dog, but there are some things that you don’t have to tolerate; for example excessive barking. Before we get into some aggressive dog training techniques, let’s understand why your dog is barking. The cause of dog barking can usually be boiled down to one of a few reasons, which we’ll look at here.
Why Is My Dog Barking?
When a dog is barking, it is trying to communicate with you, the owner. It’s up to you to determine what you dog is trying to communicate. This will vary from one breed to another, since some bark almost all the time, while some bark only when necessary. Either way, they want to call your attention to something, be it a prowler, the need to go outside, or just wanting to play. Your goal should be to eliminate nuisance barking, but allow your dog to use their voice. Don’t expect to have a pet that never gets to speak.
How to Stop Dog Barking - Two Methods
The first technique I’ll share to stop dog barking will work immediately, so you can put it to use today. If your dog is accustomed to barking at you to get you to do what they want, you have to reestablish yourself as the alpha, the leader of the pack. The easiest way to do this is to physically stop your dog from barking. Use your hand to hold the dogs mouth closed, and use your other hand to control the dog so that he can’t pull away. Your puppy will try to wiggle away from you, but don’t let him. He’ll quit trying to get loose fairly quick and will then be complacent. Once he stops trying to escape, keep your hand around his snout for a few seconds, then let go. This tells your dog that you are the dominant one, and is 100 percent effective. Just be sure not to put hold his mouth too firmly, since the last thing you want is to cause any pain.
The next method takes more time to implement, but will have longer lasting effects. To stop dog barking for the long haul, try this. The next time your dog is nuisance barking, stop what you’re doing and turn your back to him. Don’t say anything, just show him your back. This social isolation is one of the best methods to stop dog barking. It will take some time, but is well worth it. Just be aware that doing this will cause your dog to bark more initially, since he’s used to you responding to his bark.
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Stop Separation Anxiety and Stop Excessive Barking?
“Is my dog barking too much due to Separation Anxiety?”
Canine separation anxiety refers to your puppy or dog’s fear as a result of being separated from you — the pack leader. This specific nervous condition becomes worse and worse, without training or behavioral intervention, and will begin to happen every time you leave the house. It may even begin to happen every time you leave the room. Since dogs are pack animals, by nature, your dog feels most secure and comfortable when he is part of the pack. His pack may be headed by a human, but it’s all the same to him.
“So my dog is anxious. Why is this such a problem?”
The resulting behaviors, caused by separation anxiety, will be things like excessive barking, whining, chewing up everything in sight and going potty (on purpose) in the house. Your dog may exhibit just one of these symptoms, or maybe all of the symptoms. Excessive barking is very likely to be one of the main manifestations. Not sure if your dog is barking and whining while you are out? Your neighbors may be able to fill you in!
“What can I do about Separation Anxiety?”
One of the recommended methods for alleviating the problem is to crate-train your best friend. You will most likely have to help your pooch overcome his apprehension about his new ‘house’, so plan on spending some time on this in the beginning. Place the crate somewhere where he will feel safe and comfortable to enter and also exit. Leave the door open at first, and let him get used to coming and going as he pleases. Never, ever drag him or force him into the crate. It may take a few days for him to feel okay about his new digs. Over time, he should actually begin to prefer the crate as a place to sleep, relax or get away from things that make him nervous or uncomfortable.
Once he is comfortable with coming and going, begin to shut the door for 5-10 minutes at a time, while you remain in the room. Praise him, but don’t coddle him and feed his insecurities. Gradually increase the time spent in the crate, with the door latch closed. Leave the room for awhile and then return.
Always praise him for good behavior. Don’t reward whining or panicked behavior. Act calmly yourself, as if nothing should be bothering him. Reward his calm, quiet behavior with a treat or positive words.
Plan to work with him over a period of several days, before just locking him in and leaving for work. Practice asking him to get into his crate and then getting your keys and leaving the room. Eventually, leave the house for a couple of hours, while you go to the store. Soon, he will be ready to accept his crate for an entire day while you are gone to work. Always, always make sure that he has had the opportunity to relieve himself prior to locking him into the crate for an extended amount of time. If you have worked up gradually to this point, your dog should no longer be barking excessively, whining and acting out when you leave. He will feel safe, secure and calm inside his crate.
If all goes well, the barking problem that is a result of separation anxiety will be resolved. And won’t your neighbors be happy?!
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Unforeseen Benefits of Your CCTV Home Security System Vis-à-vis Your Pets
By Nahshon Roberts
When you installed your CCTV home security, you have done so for the purpose of monitoring your house, your nanny and your teenaged children while you were away, asleep, or otherwise engaged. What you did not foresee is that it can benefit your pets, too!
Pet Safety
Unless you have a Doberman pinscher and a German shepherd for pets, you have the responsibility to keep your pets safe from intruders and from themselves. Let’s face it. Your pets can be endangered by criminals who are intent on pet-napping for nefarious purposes and even by neighbors who love your pets so much they are willing to commit a felony to own them.
At the very least, you can easily identify the perpetrators of the crime through video footages from your CCTV home security cameras. You can take a lesson from the dog-napping case in a pet store in Burlington, Vermont where an $800 miniature schnauzer was stolen and subsequently recovered, thanks to the surveillance cameras in place.
Your pets can also be a danger to themselves. With remote viewing of footages from your surveillance cameras, you can alert the people in the house about the dangers your pet is putting himself in. You can also use the video footages to ascertain the places your pet is frequenting, the dangers therein, and what you can do to lessen them.
Pet Monitoring
If you are having problems in dog training, your CCTV home security system can be used to monitor your dogs. You can more readily identify causes for dog behavior problems from available video footages, said behavior problems ranging from mildly destructive furniture chewing to highly problematic aggression.
You can even install sensors that will alert you when your pet is entering a restricted area! Quite handy for your antique vases, don’t you think?
Pet Cuteness
Pets are cute! But often, you miss the most candid and cutest pet moments simply because you cannot spend your life staring and waiting for your pet to make that once-in-a-lifetime trick.
With CCTV home security camera, you can rewind and review hilarious things your pet has been doing while your back was turned. Who knows when you will earn money from having the funniest pet home video ever, right? Maybe even make enough to actually pay for part of a new CCTV home security system!
However, you have to take precautions when using surveillance cameras around pets. For one thing, you have to place them in high areas where your active pets cannot jump, tumble, and crash on them. Of course, if your pet is in a cage or a bowl like rodents, reptile and fish, you do not have this problem.
Still, you have to remember that your CCTV home security system is there for reasons beyond protecting and videotaping your pets, no matter how adorable they are. It is there to deter crime against person and against property. For this reason, be sure to perform regular maintenance to preserve its integrity either from human intrusion or pet excursion.
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Separation Anxiety - Helping Your Dog Cope
Separation Anxiety - Helping Your Dog Cope
Dogs are social creatures; they evolved as pack animals, and hate to be alone. There’s a bit of the wolf even in a little Bichon Frise or Chihuahua, and it can sometimes come out in unexpected ways. One of these ways is in the household pecking order. Somebody in the house has to be the “alpha dog,” and it had better be you. Your beloved dog may not like getting her Frontline flea control treatment, but it’s for her own good and you’re the boss. You need to make that crystal clear - otherwise she’ll be ruling the roost.
However the pecking order shakes out, there are times when the dog-human relationship can get somewhat unhealthy on the dog end of the equation, and this can result in separation anxiety: unacceptable erratic behavior when you’re away. Either the dog depends on you for every little thing and can’t handle you being gone, or they think they’re the dominant one in the relationship and start to stress out when you’re gone, wondering how you could possibly survive without them (anyone who’s ever been owned by a Pomeranian can identify with this one). Whatever the case, the result can be soiled floors, torn curtains, cats chased up into the chimney, and certifiably insane dogs.
Coping mechanisms
Okay, so your dog is nuts. How do you want to handle it? There are some great, safe pet meds that you can give them to control anxiety; one of them, buspirone (BuSpar) is especially effective, and has few if any side effects. Other options are Valium, Elavil, and Prozac. Fortunately, with the exception of Prozac, none of these medications is expensive.
Separation anxiety isn’t a permanent affliction, since your dog will certainly calm down once you come safely home. If you have the time or inclination, you can effectively use behavioral methods to curb their anxiety. Despite the damage, avoid scolding your dog much when they’ve been bad: dogs are fine companions, but they’re a little slow connecting what’s going on now with what they’ve done in the past. Instead, the dog is likely to connect your arrival with the scolding, which will make them even crazier. Instead talk to them a bit disapprovingly, making it clear that they can do better than that. In fact, most experts advise that you shouldn’t scold your dog for any bad behavior unless you “catch them in the act” of doing it.
Passive dogs need to be shown that they can be more independent, so learn to let go a little. Sure, she needs you to take care of her heartworm medicine and flea and tick control, but you needn’t fawn over her every second. Let your baby girl go into the backyard without you when she needs to sniff. Spend less time with her, and eventually she’ll be better able to live with herself. If you’ve got a dominant dog, learn to put the pup in her place. Just because she wants you to scratch her rear end for hours at a time doesn’t mean you have to. Let her know when she’s been bad. You’re the Alpha human here, by golly!
Changes won’t happen overnight, but eventually your dog will learn that it can live without you being there all the time, and that you can live without it for a little while. Once they’ve made that paradigm shift in their thinking, it’s unlikely they’ll ever go back — though of course you might get some backsliding. Your best bet may be a combination of behavioral modification and an anxiety-reducing drug like BuSpar, since they seem to compliment each other very well.
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Parvo Treatment at Home — Advantages and Disadvantages
Home Parvo treatment for your dog is a perfectly practical and effective option, compared to the usual approach of having your dog treated at the animal hospital, even though you may meet considerable resistance to this idea.
If you’re not convinced, then here are a few facts to consider to help you make up your mind.
How Much Will It Cost?
If you have your Parvo dog treated at the animal hospital, it will probably cost you anywhere from $500 USD to over $10,000 USD per dog.
On the other hand, if you administer Parvo treatment to your dog in the comfort of your own home, using a Parvo home treatment kit, then you can treat one or more dogs (depending on their weight) for much less than $500 USD, and that includes FedEx Priority Overnight shipping (anything else is just too slow, so don’t be tempted by offers of free shipping on some websites - this free shipping is more often than not US Postal Service Priority Mail, but if you wait for that, your dog can be dead by the time your package arrives).
Success Rate
Most vets will give dog owners a 50% chance of their dog surviving Parvo, with the lowest we’ve heard being a 33% chance, and the highest an 80% chance.
Alternatively, if you treat your Parvo dog at home using the safe, natural products that are available, then the survival rate is typically 90%.
Part of this increased success rate is because treating your dog at home, yourself, is less stressful for both you and your dog, and reduced stress results in an improved chance of your dog surviving this horrific virus.
Support that’s available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the unparalleled Parvo vPETS service (constant phone contact every four to five hours during the first couple of days of full treatment - this does include ALL hours of the day, nights, weekends, holidays, etc. since Parvo doesn’t take a break or mount an attack to suit your schedule) if you can find it, can also increase your dog’s chance of beating Parvo, but you certainly won’t get this from most vets.
Care
If you leave your dog at the vet’s, then it is highly likely that nobody will be in attendance over night, so your dog may well be by himself, or possibly with other sick dogs, for about 12 hours.
However, with home Parvo treatment, then you will be there, with him, 24 hours a day.
Remember, dogs, just like many other animals, are very receptive to emotions (or “vibes”, as they’re often known), and being surrounded by people who genuinely care and love for them will help in their recovery.
Time & Effort
If you have enough disposable income and you accept the relatively low chances of success offered by vets, then you can basically leave your dog there and collect him again, assuming that he survives, in a few days’ time.
If you take the home Parvo treatment route, however, then there will be a few nights without sleep, because one of the four products in the Parvo home treatment kit does need to be given every single hour (and, yes, that does mean both day and night) during the first two days of the four-day course of treatment.
Summary
There are many good reasons why it makes sense to treat your dog at home if he has Parvo - the lower cost and increased survival rate are the two most obvious ones.
There is one downside to administering the home Parvo treatment, and that is the time and effort it will take, but this is a necessary part of treating your dog at home, and the rewards, when you see your practically terminally-ill and almost unrecognizable doggie come through this often fatal virus, more than compensate for a few nights without sleep.
You may think that vaccinations are the way to stop your dog getting Parvo, but there are a huge number of problems with administering shots to your dog (which is a whole other story), so the best and arguably only way to be prepared is to make sure you have the necessary products on hand at all times - that way, if your dog should be infected by the Parvo virus, you’ll be able to start treatment at once, even if it’s 5:00am on a Sunday morning, when you’ll almost certainly struggle to find an animal hospital open.
We specialize in products such as our Parvaid Gold Value Packs that can be used for both Parvo prevention and Parvo treatment, but we also carry a wide variety of other safe, natural, chemical-free products to treat Kennel Cough, Canine Heartworms, Feline Distemper and many other every-day pet ailments.
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Lentek Super Bark Free Product Review
The Lentek Super Bark Free emits either ultrasonic or audible sound to discourage dogs from barking.
This outdoor device will train most dogs that barking results in an unpleasant ultrasonic response. This “training” is most effective against boredom barking, and is less effective against territorial behavior or trained behavior. The unit is effective up to 25 feet away, which also makes it a great option for the NEIGHBOR’S dog(s) that never seem to stop barking. If you have a large yard, or the neighbor’s animals congregate at a certain spot further than 25 feet, consider purchasing and installing multiple units. Many homeowners report that this finally restores a bit of peace of quiet!
For about 2 out of 3 dogs, the Lentek Bark Free 
In a few situations where there are a lot of other noises, the ultrasonic sound may be masked or reduced to such a degree that it is not effective. Most pet stores and online retailers offer a money back satisfaction guarantee on their products. In the case of the Lentek Super Bark Free
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Tips for Choosing Quiet Dog Breeds…
Some dog breeds actually DO tend to bark at anything and everything…for just about any reason. Some dog breeds, on the other hand, are far less prone to problem barking.
If you live in an apartment, or in a neighborhood where your little barker will be in close proximity to neighbors, it’s a good idea to do a bit of research before getting a new dog. It is actually possible to improve your odds of getting a quiet dog.
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If you already own one or several dogs, it is helpful to know which breeds really tend to be a problem. If you can’t manage to train the dog to stop barking excessively, you’ll know more quickly that some professional help might be in order. Go to the internet, or your local yellow pages, and you should find plenty of dog training experts.
If the thought of spending a couple of hundred dollars for training sounds over the top, consider that one city citation may cost you the same amount. And the longer the problem persists, you may alienate your neighbors. In some cities, you may be ordered to remove the dog, if the problem persists.
It’s not an exact science, of course, but there is a general consensus that beagles and toy breeds are the worst barking offenders.
Following are ten breeds that do tend to speak their mind often:
1. Beagles
2. Chihuahuas
3. Miniature Schnauzers
4. West Highland Terriers
5. Yorkshire Terriers (Yorkies)
6. Cairn Terriers
7. Fox Terriers
8. Pekinese
9. Minature poodles
10. Toy Poodles
Dog breeds known to be less prone to barking:
Basenji
Blood Hound
Basset Hound
Bulldog
Siberian Husky
Alaskan Malamute
Golden Retriever
English Sheepdog
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Resources:
Humane Society of the United States
Bark Busters — Home Dog Training
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