Quieting barking dogs
My 2 dogs are getting anoying. They bark at anything that moves durring the night and out here in the sticks there is alot moving.
Any idea's to help quiet them.
Bringing them in is not an option, they are stricktly outside dogs and I have to kinda seperate them anyway as they fight between themselves.
I have thought about getting those bark collars but not sure if I want to do that.
Any idea's to help quiet them.
Bringing them in is not an option, they are stricktly outside dogs and I have to kinda seperate them anyway as they fight between themselves.
I have thought about getting those bark collars but not sure if I want to do that.
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The bark collars work great. I used them on my labs over a year ago and it cured them from boredom barking all night long. 0 -
For most dogs the shock collar is a temporary solution. Even if you do the routine of using dummy collars so they don't associate the shock with the collar they will eventually figure it out. My next door neighbor had to take his two dogs the family farm about a month ago because of a barking problem. I give him alot of credit because he tried everything. I eventually loaned him my 2 collar Tri Tronics setup and dummy collars. It improved things greatly but within a month or so they were back at it. The vibration activated collars worked the best but the dogs were hard on them and they eat batteries, an expensive long term solution. Good luck. 0 -
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A 2x4 to the side of the head will usually shut up a barking dog.
I say this out of pure gest. My eight month old Springer sometimes drives me nuts with his barking. My wife yells, "Time out" at him, and he knows to go back to his crate when that happens.
Never thought time out would work on a canine before, but it does.0 -
Dogs bark. If you don't want your dog to bark when something comes around, don't get a dog. Teaching your dog not to bark will make him keep quiet when there is a time for him to bark. How do you have it both ways? Don 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
Dogs bark. If you don't want your dog to bark when something comes around, don't get a dog. Teaching your dog not to bark will make him keep quiet when there is a time for him to bark. How do you have it both ways? Don
I beg to disagree. You can teach the dog that there is a time and a place to bark. I don't discourage ALL barking, I just discourage barking when, say, I'm trying to work or carry on a conversation with my wife and he's wanting us to play with him.
We don't discourage him barking at outside sounds, and when he's outside playing, we don't discourage him from barking.0 -
quote:Originally posted by spanielsells
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
Dogs bark. If you don't want your dog to bark when something comes around, don't get a dog. Teaching your dog not to bark will make him keep quiet when there is a time for him to bark. How do you have it both ways? Don
I beg to disagree. You can teach the dog that there is a time and a place to bark. I don't discourage ALL barking, I just discourage barking when, say, I'm trying to work or carry on a conversation with my wife and he's wanting us to play with him.
We don't discourage him barking at outside sounds, and when he's outside playing, we don't discourage him from barking.
I am talking about outside dogs as was the original post. Inside dogs are a whole different case. Don0 -
You will never be able to keep "outside dogs" from barking. Being outside all the time makes them skittish and insecure like wild animals are. You either need to bring them in or give them to someone who either doesnt mind the barking or is willing to take them inside. I will never understand the point of owning a dog just to keep it outside.
Whats the point?0 -
quote:Originally posted by gun_runner
You will never be able to keep "outside dogs" from barking. Being outside all the time makes them skittish and insecure like wild animals are. You either need to bring them in or give them to someone who either doesnt mind the barking or is willing to take them inside. I will never understand the point of owning a dog just to keep it outside.
Whats the point?
My outside dog likes it outside. He loves to run, something a big dog cannot do inside. Don0 -
So wild animals and dogs kept outside are skittish and insecure?????
Get a grip.0 -
quote:Originally posted by gun_runner
You will never be able to keep "outside dogs" from barking. Being outside all the time makes them skittish and insecure like wild animals are. You either need to bring them in or give them to someone who either doesnt mind the barking or is willing to take them inside. I will never understand the point of owning a dog just to keep it outside.
Whats the point?
My outside dogs got it good with heated dog houses and all.
Part of the reason they don't come in is they fight with each other if put together. And I'm not going to favor 1 over the other letting one in.
They do very well outside and are in no way neglected.
I think I have desided to go pick up those collars. They have some at petsmart for not to bad of a price.0 -
I'll tell you how I got my dogs to shut up when I wanted them to. I lived on a dirt road out in the sticks. I got the dogs as pups. Two Doberman. When they started barking I would tap on the window by the dog lot. At first they kept barking and I would point a 38 pistol ( S&W model 10 with a 4 in. barrel ) and shoot one round down into the yard. The dogs would stop barking and go into their dog houses. After a week or two all it took was tapping on the window. always tap before shooting. 0 -
outside dogs will always bark. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
Dogs bark. If you don't want your dog to bark when something comes around, don't get a dog. Teaching your dog not to bark will make him keep quiet when there is a time for him to bark. How do you have it both ways? Don
My dogs don't. They bite without warning.
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My outside dog NEVER barks unless it is on the trail of a coon or while treed.
She loves to live outside. It is 2 degrees out right now and she is jumping around in the snow. She is not in her doghouse or whining to come inside-she is playing and screwing off even though the wind chill is well below 0 degrees. She doesn't like to come in the house and has lived her whole life outside.
If you want to see an insecure dog bring over your little fufu pets and let them spend a night outside with her in this weather. If she don't eat them she will probably keep them warm so they survive.0 -
quote:Originally posted by RunForest
outside dogs will always bark.
Not always true. I had a rather large male Great Dane that
we kept outside. You could've tripped over him in the middle of the
night, and he'd have just yawned.
I've had sensible outside dogs that would only bark when a true
threat presented itself. You soon learn from the bark, the degree
of attention needed.
Those that didn't/don't have those qualities soon found other homes.[:)]0 -
...My dogs have always been outside year around. No fence, no chain. They know the property and stay on it. Like Warpig's dog, mine wants nothing to do with being in the house for any length of time. He has a box in the shed with 2" foam insulation and a fluffy cedar bed. He sleeps in the snow instead. No fufu dog here, though he wouldn't hurt a fly. He barks at 3 things: guns, fireworks and coyotes. If constant barking is a problem, it's probably boredom. 0 -
My dogs bark and I am ok with it but the bark collar broke them of the continuos barking for 3 hours a night.
It never really bothered me much but when the neighbor lady was knocking on my door at 3am every morning telling me to shut my dogs up I decided to try a bark collar. After they wore the collar for a while and knew what it was all I would have to do is hang it on the fence post by their kennel and they would not bark at all.0 -
One word "Bobcat".
The Bobcat will kick the dogs butt, then they will really have something to bark about..0 -
Forgot to add: Dad always raised several coonhounds, and of course
some were bad to bark. They were kept in a pen with 3-4 runs, and
he rigged up a high pressure water hose that he could turn on from inside. Not 100% effective, but when they heard that water coming
down the line they hit the dog house in a hurry.[:D][:D]0 -
I remove their voice boxes. Now instead of barking at intruders, they tap on my window and fire a shot into the ground... 0 -
I guess your probably at night, but ive heard of people putting like change in pop cans and taping them shut, everytime they bark shake the can and yell at them. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by git_r_done
quote:Originally posted by gun_runner
You will never be able to keep "outside dogs" from barking. Being outside all the time makes them skittish and insecure like wild animals are. You either need to bring them in or give them to someone who either doesnt mind the barking or is willing to take them inside. I will never understand the point of owning a dog just to keep it outside.
Whats the point?
My outside dogs got it good with heated dog houses and all.
Part of the reason they don't come in is they fight with each other if put together. And I'm not going to favor 1 over the other letting one in.
They do very well outside and are in no way neglected.
I think I have desided to go pick up those collars. They have some at petsmart for not to bad of a price.
That might be the reason you have this problem. The social structure of dogs doesn't have any equals. The dogs may just be working to establish an order the is natural to them. As the alpha male it is your job to help establish and enforce that structure. Time to pick your favorite.0 -
I used a dog trainer for one of my pointers, and he had a kennel full of dogs. (15-25) He solved the barking problem with a water system that was activated by the bark. It worked! My dog respects a hose or squirt gun to this day. You can walk up to the kennel full of strange dogs and the most you get is a whimper or two. I do not know how he isolated the squirt to the kennel where the dog was, but I can provide his name and address if anyone wants to get serious. 0 -
I picked up the collars. So far they seem to be working. Every now and then I'll hear 1 bark and they stop.
I'll take them off in the morning, and put them back on at night for a few nights. Hopefully it will only take a few nights to cure them.
I'll tell you what though. Those collars are not cheep, $85 for 2 of them. But if I can start getting some good sleep it will have been worth it.0 -
To clarify my thoughts and intentions, Dogs outside that are free and like it that way is one thing. I guess its just the chained up ones that bother me. Always has, and always will. If someone put a chain on me Id bark all night to.
Different strokes for different folks I suppose,0 -
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
I remove their voice boxes. Now instead of barking at intruders, they tap on my window and fire a shot into the ground...
That was great![:D][:D]0 -
If they are not hunting dogs, get a Daisy cub BB gun, filled halfway with BBs, so it makes noise when you shake it.
I've had dogs that would not stop barking and it cures it.
My method:
Tell dog to hush.
If dog does not hush, shake BB gun and repeat "hush" command.
If dog does not hush, shoot dog in the a$$ with BB gun.
Repeat as necessary.
It should take no more than a few shots to the A$$ to convince the dog to hush when told.
Our dog is a relentless barker at times, but also a good watchdog. I do not want to discourage her from barking, just to stop when told.
Sometimes when people are working near the road she barks nonstop.
If I tell her to hush, she will bark at me and I repeat the "hush" command, if she does not hush I shake the BB gun and she will, 9 times out of ten, go get in her doghouse.
Sometimes she will bark in her doghouse, but a carefully placed shot to the plastic dog house will convince her she needs to hush.
I may have actually shot her 3-4 times.
A $20 BB gun is cheaper than two $75 shock collars that will keep the dogs from barking all together
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I have got a lot of dogs in my back yard but they are not all barking[:o)]
Paintball gun on full auto out the back window shuts them up for a few hours also.0 -
quote:Originally posted by git_r_done
I picked up the collars. So far they seem to be working. Every now and then I'll hear 1 bark and they stop.
I'll take them off in the morning, and put them back on at night for a few nights. Hopefully it will only take a few nights to cure them.
I'll tell you what though. Those collars are not cheep, $85 for 2 of them. But if I can start getting some good sleep it will have been worth it.
Be careful about letting them wear them all night. I left mine on the dog one night and it somehow tore it off and chewed it into pieces but they were cured of their boredom barking so I havn't replaced it.0
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