barking at hoover/brush/mop and biting trousers

[booyhoo]

when you haven't got a treat or toy at hand to distract, wha do you do. atthe minutes i am crating him if he does it but with the hoovering and brushing/mopping, he still barks continuously. i praise when he is quiet but taht seems to start him off again.

I tend to put mine out in the garden when I am doing hoovering etc.

even if its raining and they will get wet and dirty and then come in a mess up you nice clean house?

Squirting with water very effective and much much faster than distraction technique.

thanks lizcat, i shall have to carry a suirty bottle with me at all times.

get dogs attention on you just use a clicker and say dogs name and click and treat do this for a few goes so the dog is listening to you.

Turn on hoover but do not move it - carry on clicking and treating the dog. You will have a certain distance that you can get to that you dog will tolerate before he goes crazy. Gradually move nearer do not go so near that the dog barks.

If the dog goes crazy the second you turn the hoover on just click and treat near the hoover. Do this several times a day and also don't put the hoover away leave it out for the puppy to get used to.

When you can have the hoover on and no trauma start to move the hoover but move away from the dog. Click and treat the now calm behaviour!

Personally I don't like squirting water treatment for any issue as usually the dogs are anxious of the item they are going crazy over and it just increases the anxiety. They may stop barking at the hoover but the anxiety will show itself often in even more undesirable behaviour. It can also wreck a recall as the dog is unsure of coming near to you if it is going to get a face full of water every time.

I had this issue with my collie pup recently and realised that it was probably as I did not hoover enough so when I thought I had got it sussed I got out the hoover and had to start all over again. So also hoover quite regularly for your dog to get used to it. Not saying you don't I know it is me that is just lazy too busy.

However a hoover is a great item for teaching dogs to go left and right and teaching an out if you intend to do agility{grin]

Also at some stage your OH will have to do the hoovering whilst you are training the dog to get used to the hoover. You will need to be clicking and treating whilst you OH is hoovering.

Best to hoover the whole house to give you time to complete the dog training. Unfortunately this part of the dogs training can take many weeks sometimes months

ha, you know me well minimu i certainly do not hoover often enough but it is good reason to start!! i have no OH, do you think it will be a problem. i have a 5 year old, i could always get him to hoover couldn't I?

What is a 'hoover'???

oh bella, it is this silly contraption my mum insisted i get. even now i have one i still hear her going on about, "do you not think of running the hoover round?" i do run it round all the time, but it costs money to plug it in so i dont bother with that

How bizarre, booy