Posted: 2/24/2007 6:32:52 AM EDT
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Besides the SSS method, How do I keep my 2 year old Lab from barking when she's in the back yard? I'm looking at this from Petsmart Here's another one www.ultimatebarkcontrol.com/ds_ultimate.htm What do you think? Any help would be appreciated. |
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I have tried that particular collar on my dog. It does help stop the barking... while it's on her. But it's not good to leave it on for any length of time because the probes can irritate her skin. She soon learned that she could bark with impunity when the collar comes off. I began leaving it on longer and longer, until finally she developed a rash where the probes contacted her skin. At that point, I threw the stupid collar in the garbage. I am not going to injure my dog just so some shithead neighbor can sleep 'til noon. |
OMG the neighbors might sleep till noon, the sky will fall if they do. |
Thanks for the input. The neighbors haven't said anything. The damn dog is driving everyone in our house crazy. I guess I need to get a big stereo and crank it up. I did not know that it had probes that stick the dog. I saw one online a while back that emitted radio waves to stop the dog from barking. I'll see if I can find that one and add it to my OP. |
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Our dog has the same problem... he barks at EVERYTHING. I'm happy to see him bark at Demon Lady, but every time somebody walks down the street, or another neighbor's dog is out, he is barking the whole time. Sometimes it's so bad I have to bring him back in the house until the coast is clear. I'm glad I stumbled on to this thread. I'm 'gonna stop by Pet Smart on the way home from work and pick up one of those silencer collars. I wonder If I have to register it with BATF. 
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a responsible dog owner doesn't allow his dog to bark uncontrollably in public . and a barking dog is not a happy dog, the dog whisperer says that every week. those bark collars work very well and with verbal correction along with the collars correction your dog will learn to be more quiet all the time,thus being more calm and content. you certainly would not leave the collar on all of the time but people usually put them on way to loose and that is what wears on the dogs neck. my dogs run all day several days in a row hunting with a training/beep collar on, with longer probes and never get any sores on his neck. it must be tight enough not to move around, 2 fingers under the collar. |
My dog may just have sensitive skin, I don't know... I had the collar on pretty tight. She has thick fur, so it had no effect even with the long probes unless it was on tight enough. The real problem was neighborhood kids who would taunt her until she barked, just to see her get the "correction" from the collar. |
I wish you were correct, but i have the most retarded canine in the entire world and it is of no help. 
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Well I have been pretty lucky with my dog when it comes to barking. I don't know if he is just well behaved or if boxers don't bark much naturally (he's the first one I've had). That being said there are two occasions when he barks and I have to correct him. When he hears "more than normal" movement outside of our front door he will huff and puff a little bit and give me a heads up with a low grunts. That I like. I appreciate the warnings, but sometimes he gets into full barking. The other is when we are at my parent's house and he is hanging out with their dog. Their dog likes to run to the back door and bark at whatever deer, groundhog, etc he sees scamper across the backyard....Rocky see, Rocky do...he barks right along with him. The canine chorus.....drives me nuts! Now what has worked for me is a little jab in the neck with two fingers while saying "NO". You have to do it right when he is barking to make it easy for him to connect the dots. Don't jab him hard...just enough to get his attention and get his mind of barking. They will catch on quick doing that and eventually you won't have to do it as often. Rocky's to the point now that when he gets a little excited and gets too loud he barks once loud and looks over his shoulder at me to see what I say  . It's funny as hell, but I just say no and he chills out.It may seem like your dog doesn't get it. You just have to be patient and consistent. Let me stress this again...CONSISTENT. Your reaction has to be the same or close to it all the time. It makes it easier for them to learn. If you correct him sometimes and let him do it others he won't learn shit and you will get pissed off. Trust me I know. It is an almost daily struggle to get my wife on the same page with me when it comes to her "baby". It has taken me twice as long to get him to act right than it should have and even now he acts right around me, but gets away with murder when he's alone with the wife  .
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Years ago I used one of the cheapest Daisys to make my dog stop that...seems like it was about 250fps and wouldn't even kill a bird. My border collie would stand at the fence barking and when I told him to "shut up" he just looked over his shoulder at me for a second before continuing. I shook the BBs , popped him in the ass and repeated the "shut up". The second time all I did was shake the BBgun and tell him to shut up. It worked, so the third time I only used the verbal. He was a smart dog and after that he rarely barked unless there was a problem. The neighbor's dogs were a little slower to catch on. (yes, the owners knew about it too) |
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As a responsible dog owner, your dog should not bark at anything and everything. Drives me nuts walking through my neighborhood and listening to all the dogs bark. With that said there are different methods for training your dog to bark. The electric collars work, but as already pointed out, they do no good if they are not on the dog. Training is the best option, but you have to be firm and consistent. I suggest reading different training methods on barking (search for dog training books, I'd recomend one but mine are all geared towards working dogs). My dog is trained so that I just tell him to be quiet, and if he disobeys and keeps barking, I hold his muzzle shut until he wimpers (while giving command to be quiet). This also further reinforces that you are the alpha male. My neighbors dogs used to bark all the time (5 feet from my bedroom window). I had an odd schedule at the time, worked days and nights so my schedule was always changing. They didn' seem to care about the dogs barking. when I asked them to keep the dogs quiet, or at least move their electric fence to only the back yard not 5 feet from my bedroom window. Anyway, I just started having fun splitting wood at 4 in the morning until they got the message, now they keep the dogs quiet. edited: to point out the rant part is not directed at the starter of the thread because you are asking for advice, it is letting other dog owners know they need to be responsible. |
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Consider this: Adult dogs in the wild don't bark! It is against the survival ethic for them to do so. Juvenile dogs DO bark. We have conditioned dogs to be juvenile in their behavior. They never grow up. A juvenile dog is dependent on the 'mommy and daddy dogs' (i.e., the owners) for everything: training, food, water, etc. They never grow up! The most well-rounded dog packs I've ever seen belonged to people who included the dogs as family. They got lots of 'quality time' with the humans- they were 'inside' dogs, who were treated as much as the kids, as family. These dogs would bark and go nutty over people approaching the house, but NEVER gave in to the constant barking that a neglected dog does. Conversely, the worst barking dog I ever saw (just six feet from MY bedroom window!) was NEVER walked, or groomed, etc. She was ignored except when it came time to feed her. |
Ammonia mixed with insect repellent would work better. |
Something to think about I work Midnight for 10 years. I work in a hospital and I slept during the day. Something to think about would you want to go the emergency room in the middle of the night and have some Doctor or nurse treating that has not slept in 2 days becuase someones dog kept barking all afternoon. |
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I use an INNOTEK Bark Collars are good and well priced. Make sure that you don't let him wear any other types of collars when he has it on as that will cause the dark thing to elctro-shock him just from rubbing on it. Also avoid having him wear it while in a crate as rubbing against the metal grates can cause it to go off. They are great devices. Each time your dog barks the INNOTEK increases its stimulation until it reaches a level of correction that stops your dog. What they really do is so surprise your dog that it breaks his attention and brings him out of his trace like barking state. When he stops barking the collar stops shocking him and goes down a level so that next time it works much faster. Trust me a couple of weeks wearing it and you'll notice a lot less barking. |
We took our dog to a professional trainer when she was younger. He had her for a month and kept a bark collar on her for days at a time. When we got her back, she had sores on her neck that were crusted over and all the hair was gone from where the probes were. I was so pissed I couldn't see straight. You'd think a professional would know better. 
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WOW, I never realized how many folks on here have either such small testicals or no testicals at all. I mean to see the folks saying they like to hurt dogs????  What kind of asshole likes to hurt dogs? All kinds of talk about shooting the dog, beating the dog, what kind of waste of space human beings are you people? I personally would put rounds through someones skull if I saw them shoot a dog or beat on one...I'm serious I'll go to prison over that shit. |
Poor little baby all sensitive over animals. |
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Bark collers work, if used properly. The other method is to first teach the dog to bark on command. Then you can then teach the dog to only bark on command, and not bark other times. It may sound silly, but dogs tend to learn opposites. Teach them to go through doorways on command, both ways first, then you can teach them not to go into certian rooms. Teach them to bark on command, then it is easy to teach them not to bark. Dave. |
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I have an almost 4 month old Black Lab and luckily he really doesn't bark all that much yet. When someone comes to the door he'll just give a little bark and run to the door to warn us which I like. Or sometimes if he drops his rawhide he will bark cause he can't get it. I anticipate that it will become an issue at some point though so it's good to hear the advice here. I don't like the idea of those collars really, especially with everyone saying the dogs got sores from them. Anyways, my big issue is the biting. He has gotten a little better but my hands are constantly torn up. Anyone have advice on the biting? |
| I made up a rattle can. I just took a small coffee can, put a couple hundred BB's in it, and taped the lid on tight. I've used this on a couple dogs, and it has worked well for me. I have done this from when they were puppies, so I can't honestly say how well it will work on an older dog. When the dog starts barking I would grab the can, give it a shake, and give a firm "NO". If the dog insisted on barking, I would toss the can to his feet. Usually the sound would get a surprised reaction and I would get their attention away from what they were barking at. Once the dog s were trained that way, all they would have to do is see the can and they would stop doing whatever. It's cheap and it may not work for you, but it is a suggestion that is worth what you paid for it. Good luck. |