I did do a search on this but did not really find this specific situation and I just want to be sure what I am doing is right. Vashti is 15 weeks - the last couple of days that we've been in the backyard playing and training she has started barking at the neighbor dog. Hair's up and she's serious...as serious as she can be at this age. I have a privacy fence but she can still see and hear and smell the other dog but it just now has started bothering her. I'm not correcting her at all. I don't want to stifle any protection instinct and yet I don't want her getting in the habit of reacting this way to other dogs. I just try to redirect and distract her back to me with play or the commands I know she knows? Getting her to be indifferent to the other dog is my goal correct? I'm pleasantly surprised at her confidence at this age so I don't want to squash it.
I think you are on the right track trying to teach her to be neutral to a non-threatening animal/person. Is she responding to your efforts at redirecting?
Yes, she does Barbara. When I engage her with either training or just playing ball with me she does really well to avoid but if she is running around or we are just walking around the yard she then tends to get distracted so I just start up either a new game of fetch or ask her to sit or down or come to me.
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Puppy barking at neighbor dog
#276256 - 05/12/2010 06:58 PM 
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