The most annoying barking is while the lady is on the phone, trying to work.
The other is the real mystery. He barks at a corner of the room under the TV. This is a little shrine where they keep the ashes of their two past dogs, along with a couple of balls and their collars
Two-year-old Working Cocker Dixie is constantly on the go. As the day wears on, she gets worse. It manifests itself in what I call ‘scrabbling’ and they call ‘dobbing’. She paddles and scratches with her front paws on people, on the floor, on the curtain – and on her bed. Read more…
Olive and boy Frankie are both two years old. Olive has had a litter with Frankie and they have kept one – girl Pip, four months old. Hyped up This case is all about arousal. The little dogs are constantly hyped up. This can be with wild greetings and rough Read more…
Nala is a 10-month-old American Bulldog Bull Mastiff mix. She lives with Millie, a Springador age 6. Both dogs are part of a large family – three young adults and two young children from previous relationships who com and go, along with several cats and a kitten. Unfortunately Nala has Read more…
Ted picks up an item, parades and resource guards it, not because he wants it. I believe he uses the item to have some kind of control. He uses it to entice the lady or the gentleman to get it off him. The young Cocker Spaniel never resource guards an Read more…
Over-arousal and raised stress levels exaggerate and intensify all reactive or uncontrolled behaviours. Mina is easily aroused. With Mina these behaviours include digging, jumping up, rough mouthing, grabbing and biting; She reacts fearfully to children, jumps on people they meet when out and so on. The young dog can get Read more…
Jack Russell Bugsy’s online consultation. The young lady lives with her father. They have had Jack Russell Bugsy for two months now. He’s seven years of age. She got in touch because of Bugsy’s constant barking. He runs around the garden for maybe a couple of hours – barking mostly Read more…
I rang the doorbell bell. Betty barked – as most dogs do. I sat down, she barked at me. She continued to be vocal on and off for most of the time I was there.
At first I thought she wanted to chase me away, but it soon became apparent that she was excited by my presence in a friendly sort of away. They seldom have callers and to Betty I was therefore a major event. If I touched her she went quiet but then would bark at me for more when I stopped.
I couldn’t however get on with my job and pet her all the time. By doing so I was merely reinforcing here for being loudly vocal. If we had put her in another room she would have continued to bark and I didn’t want her even more stressed. (more…)
They do what they can to stop young Basset Hound Bentley doing unwanted things like jumping at the table and barking for attention.
In fact, they are instead reinforcing these very things.
Whilst reinforcing the unwanted behaviour by ultimately giving Bentley what he’s asking for, they also try discipline – ‘NO’.
Reduce arousal. Stress and excitement are at the root of their problems with Kevin and being alert, energetic and reactive is simply part of his basic nature, I’m sure.
Kevin is Kevin – and he’s wonderful! As an adolescent he will be at a difficult stage anyway.
One-year-old Kevin was born in kennels in Romania then had probably been adopted by someone over here who couldn’t cope with his boisterous nature. He ended up in rescue kennels again.
They found him online. The kennels simply brought him out and handed him over. (more…)