Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: ben mcdonald
Are your dogs kept outside at night? In what manner are they kept? ( Tied, kenneled, run ... etc)
Do you want your dogs to bark at people at night? Do you want your dogs to bark at children? Do you want your dogs to bark at animals near your house? Do you want your dogs to bark at your friends?
These are things that your dogs learn to differentiate over time, and with the proper guidance from their leader.
When they bark, you should be checking to see what they are barking at. If there is nothing that you can see or hear, then they need to be told their "quiet" command, whatever that happens to be. Use marker training to teach, and proof the command. After your absolutely sure they know what the command is, and they are choosing to blow you off, then you can use corrections. Yes it's going to be a pain starting out, but over time it gets better if your doing it right.
You only correct for disobeying the command, not for barking. It needs to be black and white for your dogs, and your dogs must know the command for quiet, or they could interrpret it as your correcting for barking.
One last thing, when your dogs bark and you go to check, I would make an effort to see or hear anything that might be out there. They might be barking for nonsense 1000 times, it's that 1001 time when someone is actually out there and they're doing what they're supposed to be, then you correct them and it sends mixed signals. Which confuses them, and your training is going to be alot harder. Just be sure.
I used this method with my girl, and now I know when anyone is in my driveway , walks into my home, my neighbors are outside, or someone is outside my fence. Intensity goes way up if someone walks onto my porch and she can't see who it is. She only barks when something of that sort is going on though.
I agree with all this. IMO, corrections for something you are trying to train are counterproductive (and unfair and confusing to the dog).
"So do I have to train them to know the difference and only bark when people are around." Yes.
For you though you'll have to play around with what level works for your dog, high enough to stop nuisance barks but low enough to let him bark when needed.
I would think that a dog would become desensitized to this level after time, and simply not care about the stim. My dog wears a bark collar while crated (he's got separation anxiety, barking simply winds him up) Collar on = 0 barking. If he barks, he knows whats coming. I don't think a dog can be taught to differentiate between nuisance barking, and a 'need' for barking.
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Re: Can a dog bark while wearing a bark collar
[Re: Ben McDonald ]
#348089 - 10/29/2011 04:22 PM 
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