Why would a young dog seem to bark at everything when the real problem is fear rather than barking itself? Sometimes people can be at their wit’s end with a dog that seems to bark incessantly, particularly when they know it affects the neighbours. This is the case with the Read more
Why does one little dog seem to bark at everything, even when he already has plenty of attention? Little Scamp’s barking and vocalising is driving his lady person crazy! Scamp is an eight year-old Jack Russell Yorkie cross and he has lived with her from eight weeks old. Doing things Read more
Many humans feel it’s the right thing to do to play wildly exciting games (‘but the dogs love it’) or give manic greetings to dogs. They don’t understand that they may be pumping them up to such a degree that something eventually will have to give. It’s hard to convince people that it’s kinder to wait and respond to the dogs only when they are reasonably calm.
We could hardly speak and I had hoped we would be able to sit it out, but after about ten minutes they were still standing close in front of me as I sat on the pouffe – barking, barking, barking at me.
Lola barks at planes and birds and bees.
She barks at the door bell, at animals on TV and at the young sons’ Nintendo game sounds. She barks at other dogs if she can’t get to them. She barks at everything.
Rocky had spent much of the time as a puppy left all alone, outside in a small yard, an environment the lonely puppy will have found scary. Unsurprisingly he barked constantly with probably a mix of fear and loneliness; nobody will have helped him out and it would be a safe guess that he would have been shouted at for barking.
Why do some dogs seem to bark at absolutely everything they see or hear? How adorable is this? Little Patsy, age about 6, is a very small Jack Russell. Her owners of one year got her from the pound. They said they wanted a Jack Russell but weren’t allowed to Read more