Help...I have a happy yappy!!!

[gfoster]

Hi All..I've been really busy and haven't posted in a while.

Duke is 10 months and loves to bark at EVERYTHING!! It's getting so annoying, and driving my husband nuts. I don't even bring him anywhere with us anymore due to the barking.

We have been trying the "leave it" command, and I hold the scruff on the back of his neck. That just makes it worse sometimes. Sounds like I have a vicious attach dog, not a 7 lb Yorkie

We have tried the squirt bottle, and that has a hit or miss effect. We are thinking of getting some kind of bark control collar, and I'm wondering if anyone has had better luck with any one brand.

I did search the training forum and found various responses. I know this will stir a hornets nest as a lot of people here don't like the collars. I don't want him to think he can never bark, I just need to control the crazy barking.

I know they have the citronella spray collars...they way he barks we wouldn't have mesquito's for 3 miles.

I would really like to find a collar that offered a warning "beep" before the correction. If anyone has any advice that would save my ears and restore quiet to our household, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,
Gina

[RemydeHaviland]

Only offering an alternative idea, not commenting on the bark collar thing...

Try partially filling a glass jar with coins. Shake it as soon as the undesired barking begins and consistently use it for several days. See if that helps. It did for us, and I have Remy at my office so some barking is OK but incessant barking is not. Others also fill an empty soda can with coins. I found the glass jar was a bit of a "harsher" sound and achieved a better result. My office fronts on a sidewalk, with windows from floor to ceiling. All types of dogs and small kiddos walk by daily and are a constant temptation to him...

[MI Yorkielover]

If you go to the training forum here you will see many reviews of different solutions to barking. One is the BarkOff that is like a remote control that emits a sound that corrects the barking. Or you can google BarkOff. I hope you will find a solution other than a shock collar. Good Luck

[Mama_to_Rex]

Originally Posted by RemydeHaviland

Only offering an alternative idea, not commenting on the bark collar thing...

Try partially filling a glass jar with coins. Shake it as soon as the undesired barking begins and consistently use it for several days. See if that helps. It did for us, and I have Remy at my office so some barking is OK but incessant barking is not. Others also fill an empty soda can with coins. I found the glass jar was a bit of a "harsher" sound and achieved a better result. My office fronts on a sidewalk, with windows from floor to ceiling. All types of dogs and small kiddos walk by daily and are a constant temptation to him...

The can of pennies worked with Rex and it has so far worked with Rudy.

[Philly]

Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try the pennies. My Bailey is 10 years old and - though she is spoiled rotten - she's generally good except barking at the open window in the living room. Now that the weather is warmer, I like to keep it open and once someone walks by, she'll start and continues even when noone is there.

She'll turn around and bark at me when I try to get her to stop and that only makes me laugh - so I'm not resolving the issue.

[joeyandtanksmom]

I will use a squirt gun, and I've used full glasses of water before...I also do have a shock collar (NEVER used at the same time as the water!). I know a lot of you will want to banish me to an unpleasant place for having one, but it does work. Joey will bark a couple times, then realize that he shouldn't...Typically the shock collar is the last resort though. We will try to get him to be quiet with just telling him to knock it off, then water is used, and if that doesn't help, he gets the collar. Out of everything, I must say that a full glass of water is the most effective. It doesn't hurt, and it REALLY surprises them...as long as you don't mind cleaning up any water that doesn't make it on the dog, I suggest it.