I have 2 dogs, a GSD and a griff. One problem we are having with our GSD is that he jumps on the kid gate we have between the kitchen and living room, well our kids stand there at the gate alot and I'm afraid he's going to hurt them (not intentional by any means, our GSD is just not graceful). He doesn't jump over it (yet) but just puts his paws on top of it. He will not do this when your standing close enough to get to his lead. How do you correct them when they are clear across the room? I want to make sure to mark the behavior so they have a clear picture of what they are doing wrong. They both know the off command, but Koda will look at you when you tell him this. If you walk towards him he will get off the gate. He has been corrected with the prong collar on this but it must not have been enough.

A question also about my brussels griffion. He is a very hard dog, not much phases this little guy. When I take Koda our GSD outside to train, he goes nuts!!! He will not stop barking, he drives whoever is in the house crazy and I can hear him from outside. I have tried water bottle, which worked for when he was just barking to hear himself but not for this, I have tried, waiting outside the door until I hear him and storming in the door saying NO NO NO NO NO until I got to him and giving him a correction with the prong collar. He just wags his tail like ha ha I got you to come inside. I also tried motivational before the correctional phase too! That just seemed to make it worse. He will obey the quite command any other time, just not when we go outside to train. Any suggestions would be wonderful!!! This is a great forum with alot of great help! I have also been reading the training articles and can't really find the answer to my questions, maybe I just haven't found the right article yet!

Thanks in advance

Christina

Don't know about the GSD, but for the barking question. Is he barking at the sound of you being out there, or can he see you? If he can see you through the windows, I would restrict his access to those. Perhaps crate him while you train the GSD. Same if it's just the sound, find a place where he can't hear you in the house and crate him there.

The griff is always in his crate when I'm not around, so he is already in there, and he cannot see us, his crate is on the floor in the kitchen and we are out front, there is no way he can see us. As if he can hear us or not, I don't know. I can hear him when he's throwing his fit, but I don't think Koda and I are near that loud. I get as far away from the house as I can when we do train. He will bark and bark until we come back in, no matter how long it is. He will quite down as soon as we come back in. Or let me rephrase that, we Koda and I come back in to stay. Good suggestion though! I never thought that he might be able to hear us out there.

Super soaker huh! Never thought of that. My concern is he will like it! He likes trying to catch the water spray...LOL. It's worth a shot.

Thanks so much!!!

Christina

maybe you can try giving him a bone or a toy that he really likes in his crate when you take the GSD out - that way training time becomes special for him, too. just in a different way.

and if you pump up the gun enough and your aim is true, a quick burst should surprise him good before he has the chance to turn it in to a game.

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Using a E collar on your GSD as a correction for getting up on the gate would be effective, but you'd need to have the dog in eye sight to make the correction, of course ( start with nick on low setting ).

Your Griff sounds *exactly* like my Corgi bitch , who barked constantly while I trained the other dogs, even though she was crated and out of eye sight.
A bark collar cleared up that behavior nicely.