Baxter whines when the lady goes up the stairs. He whines when they are on the phone. He whines and screams in the car. Baxter whines constantly for attention.
How can they stop the whining?
This has several approaches.
Why does a well-trained dog whine excessively during routines like leaving the house, car waits and the doorbell? Previous advice has been to try to stop the little toy Cockerpoo’s excessive whining. Methods already advised have including sudden noise and ‘No’. The gentleman has put a lot of time and Read more
When a dog whines, barks and rushes whenever something exciting happens, can teaching calm behaviours work better than simply ignoring the noise? Some dogs, like some people, are more easily excited and more vocal than others! Genetics is involved and in the case of a dog this includes the breed. Read more
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 differently This has been going on for years, so the lady does accept that what she has been Read more
This little genius got the hang of earning clicks (hence food) in no time at all. He was lying down/getting up/lying down repeatedly, really chuffed with himself. The couple also caught on very quickly and soon the lady was teaching him to touch her hand (‘touch’) and to look into her eyes (‘watch me’). The options are endless.
It’s clear Marley’s issues are largely to do with breed-related shepherding and guarding instincts. Family members are his flock but he’s without a shepherd to direct him!
His behaviour took a dramatic turn for the worse after he had been left with a dog sitter for a week a couple of years ago. One can fairly safely guess that this person used ‘dominant’, punishment-based methods on him in order to force him to comply.
Sabre is a rescue German Shepherd, probably around eight years old. He has a very friendly temperament. In the evenings poor Sabre is very stressed and obsessively seeking attention. It took him getting on for three hours to calm down completely when I visited. All evening he was whining for Read more
As soon as Harry hears movement upstairs the whining starts. He seems to have an alarm clock in his head at weekends when they would like a lie-in. His whining becomes more insistent until it becomes yelping and is very hard to ignore.
The perpetual stress results in Coco being reactive to dogs and scared of people, chasing traffic, barking in the car at anything moving and being especially frantic around small children who visit.