[nagdu] Barking

[Tracy Carcione]

If other dogs are barking at him, Ben will sometimes give a bark back,
although usually it's more that whine-bark, the one that says I really
want to join in but I'm not allowed. I think he's doing it less and less,
the older he gets.

Echo used to bark at dogs walking by if we were sitting outside having
lunch near the office.  Very bad, since there can be aggressive dogs in
that neighborhood.  I think that she thought of the space where I was
eating as her territory, sort of, and was going to defend it.  I gave her
a sharp correction every time, and after a while she gave it up.  Good
thing, as I was afraid one of those dogs would tear her silly head off for
sassing it.

Tryce's fear-barking sounds worrisome to me, but I don't know how to stop
such a thing.

While it would be helpful if Ben would bark when someone bangs on the
door, I think, if I have a choice, that I would prefer no barking to
barking too much.
Tracy

> Tracy,
>
> You know that all grads from certain schools act certain ways, right?
> (grin)
>
>
> It is funny though none of my dogs have been barkers. I remember one time
> my
> dog barked when we were playing on the beach and my nieces were astonished
> because I had had that dog for years and they had never heard her bark. My
> current dog barks rarely and it's funny when we're in the back yard or
> walking down the street and other dogs will bark at her and she looks and
> then goes on. The dogs keep barking as though to say, "hey, I'm talking to
> you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Barking
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>
> That's funny; my Ben doesn't bark, either.  He says he's much too cool to
> bark. I think it has a lot to do with personality.  My old gal Echo barks
> like a killer when someone comes to the door.  She's much more energetic
> than Ben. I think most of my GDB dogs barked a bit, and my one TSE dog
> doesn't.  So if I were truly silly, I'd say that TSE does better at
> teaching
> not barking--well, I might say that, until I think of my friend's TSE dog
> sounding off like a monster. Tracy
>
>
>
>> Does any one know how the puppy raisers teach the dogs not to bark?  I
>> am curious because for 10 years now I have been trying to teach Shiloh
>> to bark when someone rings the doorbell, but I wasn't successful.
>>
>> She hasn't barked 20 times in the 10 years that I have had her.
>>
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