Anti barking devices for dogs

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Derek Lyon — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:04:17 GMT

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[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"] It when you have a bored dog doing it all day it becomes an issue.[/quote]That was the problem with the dog next door to us. It was kept in the garden all day, never taken for a walk or interacted with, never taken indoors. The most exiting thing that happened to it was someone walking past the front gate or a noise from within the surgery - even just opening a window.

[/quote]Thank you to all who replied to my query. Most helpful. Decided to locks the dogs in another room when visitors come to the front door AND THEN and only then will slowly introduce dogs to visitors

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:02:05 GMT

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:19:44 GMT

I agree with the citronella spray collars, my sisters dog knew when it was wearing it!

Equally I do want my dogs to bark as loudly and fiercely as they like if people come to the house! It when you have a bored dog doing it all day it becomes an issue.

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Jill Butterworth — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:44:30 GMT

PS I once had a client complain that the citronella didn't last long, but it turned out the dog was constantly activating it!

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:11:45 GMT

Good advice from Jill. I would recommend the Aboistop as well they are sold by The Company of Animals.

Didn't work on my neighbour's dog next door to the surgery though neither did a sonic device I set up myself. It is a bit of an irony a vet complaining about a noisy dog but I wasn't the only one to do so. It became such a nuisance with disruption to work that we went through trying to be helpful with advice to logging the nuisance and complaining to the environmental health at the local council several times, a letter to my local MP, to the point of threat of prosecution before they re-housed the dog. It resulted in a fairly acrimonious relationship with them, involving allegations of racism. You'd think that a noisy dog would annoy the owners as much but I guess they go into denial.

RE: Anti barking devices for dogs

Jill Butterworth — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:27:07 GMT

The one I have known clients have the best success with is the Aboistop collar, it costs about £80. I don't think the cheap sonic ones work very well, but someone else may disagree.

The Aboistop is 'bark activated' and emits a small spray of citronella. Owner activated ones are prone to mistiming. The dog usually catches on quite quickly because they learn how to stop it.

It's best combined with behaviour therapy to correct the problem, too. It is caused by visitors inadvertently rewarding the excitable behaviour. The solution is keeping calm and ignoring the dog and crucially, training your visitors to do likewise. The easiest way is to keep the dog in another room, and the moment he/she is quiet after their arrival, let him/her in with the visitors, as a reward. However, prepare them that they must turn their face away and not encourage the excitement. If there is barking/jumping (which there will be at first), pop him straight back in the room. Repeat until the penny drops. If you set this up with stooge visitors who understand dog behaviour, it works quite quickly.

If you give in and let the dog over excitedly greet visitors, you reward the unwanted behaviour, and so it goes on.