Hello, I have a 3 yr old male, MinPin and everytime a dog or someone jogs by the window he goes ballistic and starts barking up a storm. What is the best way to correct this? I have been working a prong collar with him and he is doing fantastic on the heel, stay, come and down but can I control his barking using the prong???
Thanks in advance.....Al

I praise my dog for pertecting my house. He is well socialized with people; however, he wants to be interduced to anyone new. Otherwise he will bark at them. "Mail man, Jogger etc.." If someone breaks into my home I don't want them to make it past the window or door because my dog thinks he will get into trouble for it.

Yes this annoying! but I still priase him for it. If I am busy and can't be distracted. I will but him in his crate for a while.

If you just can't live with it I have read a couple post about electronic collars, but I have never used one nor do I know anything about them. I would do a search on it.

I have a Finnish Spitz .. and when she sees new people she goes into Spinnish Fits!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> (yes I believe I coined that). Spinning around and barking like few dogs can (they are a reknown barking breed) !!

I don't remember where I read it, but I can attest that a good DOWN will help. DOWN with a nice little treat for my little one. Work on DOWNs where they are nice and low. This makes it harder for the dog to bark loud (less comfortable I guess). When the excitement has passed and they are not barking, they have a much lower chance of starting up.

Hope that helps.
David Chau

I like my 2 dogs to "alert" me to anyone outside the house/yard etc.

So I praise them for letting me know (barking), but I also have taught them that when I say "enough", it's time to stop barking.

This can be taught by using food or praise (whichever works best).

Hi
I don't know if this will help - But I took my dog to National K9 for obedience training and her trainer said that you want them to bark when they hear something that's out of the norm or when someone comes to the door. But you also want them to know that after you check it out and everything is ok - they should obey your command and quit barking - In this case he used the word "Enough" as her command word to let her know - I checked it out and it's ok - no more barking. And this works quite well with my dog.
But I really don't think this answers your question about someone jogging by the house - The dog shouldn't see the jogger as a threat to your house. I think that would warrant a correction - And I would think an electronic collar would be the best way to correct for that - You need to be able to correct instantly as they start to bark at the jogger.
My dog has the idea that if we are outside and someone is walking past the house on the sidewalk that's ok - but now if the person starts walking up the driveway towards us - she gets defensive.
She doesn't go crazy - but the hair stands up and and she will give that low growl.
Hope this helps
Sharon

Our GSD barks like you mentioned to, everytime someone comes by the house, walks down the street and so on. But we started showing him on leash who was good and who was bad. If it was a passer by we let him alert us, but then said "Ivan its OK" in a nice re-assuring voice and most times he stops. He has learned certain car engines are people we know and doesnt bark at them at all. The only problem still is those pesky squirrels he loves to bark at, but its a fun happy bark.