[nagdu] Barking

Tamara Smith-Kinney tamara.8024 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 7 18:15:02 UTC 2009


Oh, mom, sorry I goofed.  /smile/

I think it does help when you start teaching them manners when they're still
young and impressionable.  Since I started Mitzi from scratch at 7 months,
there were times I thought the little beast would never be civilized!
/smile/  Her independence and self-determination had kicked in by then.  She
didn't need some stupid human telling her what to do, oh, no!  She's grown
up into a nicely behaved young lady on the job, but I find I'm still jumpy
about what she might get up to.

In harness, she only barks at other guide dogs.  We've been encountering
more of them about town, and she even got to be in a real professional
meeting with another one, so she does seem to be getting the notion that
other dogs have a job like hers and it's not party time for them until the
harnesses come off.  /grin/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Jordan Frances Ortiz
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:34 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Barking

Her on my college campus we have a puppraising club.  With our pups we 
will do usually a verbal correction, such as "no barking".  We will 
catch them with this correction from the time we get them at 8 weeks.  
I've never had to use anything else witht he puppies, and they pick up 
this lesson quickly.  They are still young, and aren't perfect, but it 
works.  I use "no barking" with Viola also.  I've only heard her bark 
about four times, but the words make her upset and she will appologize 
(smile).

Jordan and Viola

Beverly Hunter wrote
> 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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