i have just acquired a new youngster, he has great prey drive and ball drive, great food drive too, however, he doesnt bark out of frustration like most dogs will. ive tied him out and teased him for toys, but it seems that he is so sure that he will get the prey that he doesnt bark close at all, so i have been doing work with him tied out and at a distance, obviously only rewarding him when he vocalizes, but because of the distance by the time i reward him he is "locked in prey" again. he barks through a fence well, so i was thinking about trying to use the fence to elicit barking and rewarding over the fence and slowly but surely finding less and less fence until the dog understands it is the bark that triggers the prey in motion or to bite. anyone else had experience with this?
he is only eighteen months so i know he will mature some and i have been told that it will help with the bark as well.
I taught my old Mal this buy back tieing the dog on a bungie and teasing it with a rag on string tied to a fishing pole, about 4 foot of jute. I would then let the rag lie " dead " on the ground about 2 foot away from the dog . First bark the dog would make at the rag, I would flip the dog the rag and let it bite. Reward the first bark and slowly progress from there ??? It took about 3x a week of this for 3 weeks for the dog to get the idea of barking to make prey
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locked in prey? or just confident in prey?
#109388 - 07/09/2006 08:31 PM 
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