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Hello everyone, hopefully someone can help me out. I have a female GSD she is about 8.5 months old, I am new to serious dog training, we are making excellent progress mostly thanks to this website and the Micheal Ellis DVDs, I feel like i have watched every second of free video on here (my wife is sick of the Leerburg intro music lol). My issue is i don't know how to approach turning off the dog barking, I don't mind the alertness and her telling me something or someone is outside, I don't want to give her a correction for alerting me (that is one of the reasons we got the dog to protect the house). I understand very well the mechanics of marker training just curious on how to approach this issue.
She is smart as a whip learned a whistle recall to between my legs in one session, she knows how to learn just not sure how to teach her this.
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Kyle and Dutchess
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Thanks for the quick reply and advice...
She does know speak command and I am gonna try that when we work out tomorrow, however the bark she gives when i ask to speak and her barking at something outside are pretty different, I am wondering if her drive is different like play/prey "speak" vs. defensive barking does that change how I should approach the "quiet" ( quiet is the cue i am going to use)
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Quote: kyle deserio
Thanks for the quick reply and advice...
She does know speak command and I am gonna try that when we work out tomorrow, however the bark she gives when i ask to speak and her barking at something outside are pretty different, I am wondering if her drive is different like play/prey "speak" vs. defensive barking does that change how I should approach the "quiet" ( quiet is the cue i am going to use)
Basically what you do to teach her the meaning of "quiet" is to get her to first bark on command and then, the momentshe stops tell her "quiet" and mark and reward the silence even if it only lasts a second at first. Remember you first have to teach her what the word "quiet" means.
If you're there and quick enough you could also tell her quiet and mark it the instant she stops barking when she's outside.
It's not the specific bark you're concerned with; it's that the cue, "quiet," means to stop barking.
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The problem with this method is that once you stop rewarding for "quiet" and try to get back to whatever you've been doing there is a shrill piercing YAP! and there is the dog sitting there like an angel, offering "quiet". At least this is how it worked for me
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Worked it into our routine today, she only barks once when i tell her to speak, so i did it over and over again a bunch of random times and then "quiet" marked the silence and treated. I hope this is what Elaine was saying. Im gonna put it in the mix with everything else we work on everyday and well see. I appreciate the advice and ill let you know how it turns out...
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