I have a new rescue from Romania (aged about 18 months) - this is day 3. She's lovely in many respects, but she will run up to the perimeter fence and bark at the neighbours' dogs and they will bark back. Often they will initiate the barking and she will respond (its definitely two way). I have two other dogs (6 and 14) who will also bark but are very obedient and will stop within seconds when I shush them. The rescue dog is more persistent - looks at me quizzically, and carries on. At the moment I am taking her indoors when she barks - but its a pain, I want to be able to enjoy the garden with the dogs without having to resort to going back indoors when she starts barking at the neighbours dogs.
I'm a bit rusty on training and can't remember what I did to get my other dogs so compliant!
Just done a spot of quick googling and came across this:
"Do not reinforce your dogs bad behaviour by shouting, giving it attention, encouraging it or praising it for barking. Totally ignore it when it barks, turn your back, avoid eye contact and walk away. Dogs do not like to be ignored so he will do what he can to get your attention even if it means barking more or he has to stop barking."
^^ This is sooo not going to work. I could ignore and walk away and she would happily keep it up for ages. NDN would definitely not tolerate this (she's one of those with breath taking double standards who will not tolerate any noise from us, whilst completely oblivious to the fact that she frequently blights our live with her excessive noise)
Any advice on training her not to do this?
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How to train the new dog not to bark (back) at neighbours dogs
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LimitIsUp · 04/05/2020 13:20
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