Koji goes "on patrol", help!

[DPSheltie]

Glad you are seeing some improvements with Koji.

I have seen a little improvement with Bailey as well. The only thing is she has to know I have treats. When she knows I have treats she is much better behaved.

She hasn't barked at a person in at least a week or more until this morning. I was talking to a neighbor. Bailey sniffed him and he even pet her a little, but when he walked away she barked at him. She does that a lot. I'm not sure why she barks at people when they are done interacting with her.

As for dogs, she is still the same. She continues to improve at a distance, but has trouble with dogs close to her.

Riley also barks at people when they walk away from him, especially after petting him !

 

[k9kreationz]

Glad you are seeing some improvements with Koji.

I have seen a little improvement with Bailey as well. The only thing is she has to know I have treats. When she knows I have treats she is much better behaved.

She hasn't barked at a person in at least a week or more until this morning. I was talking to a neighbor. Bailey sniffed him and he even pet her a little, but when he walked away she barked at him. She does that a lot. I'm not sure why she barks at people when they are done interacting with her.

As for dogs, she is still the same. She continues to improve at a distance, but has trouble with dogs close to her.

Are you sure she's not his sister? Cuz dang, that sounds just like Koji.
1. He has to know I have food.
2. and he has to bark/lunge at people/dogs after they walk away (or are passing by). Its embarrassing. Like you were sooo good, wth!
3. distance is a good thing.

 

[SheltieChe]

I was just listening to Kathy Sdao DVD What not to Err and thought to myself...
Kathy was describing her conversations with clients when they come for example dog is reactive barking and how she teaches them to work on attention and most clients happily agree to walk their dog 3 times a week in the park and keep working but when she says " you just have to move the sofa away from the window because your dog spends 8 hrs barking at other dogs/ people passing by " people like oh, no but my dogs likes to sit on the sofa... and it is difficult to barricade that window, or not take dog for walks in the hood if dog is reactive there and there is just too much going in busy hood,
Kathy compares working on new behavioral responses like making a new path in the thicket of jungle... but you can not let dog walk through the old familiar wide path while you working on establishing that new behavior... like if a chain smoker trying to quit smoking... have one here and there not going to work...
but it is us and our human inability to accept high response cost of changing that behavior which is usually a problem, not the dog or training skills...
SG talks a lot about it in Ruff Love book, saying that if you dog were sick and you needed to stick to crate rest you would have done it... but changing new behavior patterns is just about same illness that needs to be dealt with...
Am not criticizing anyone, am in same boat, there are things I have accepted and did not make it work...just food for the thought...

 

[take4roll10]

It's easier said than done. In many cases that is impossible. I do not have a backyard. I live in an apartment, so I have to walk my dog in my very busy neighborhood. There is no other option.

I did tape wax paper to my window, so Bailey can't look out and bark at dogs. This has really worked well. Otherwise, she would look out the window all day and bark at every dog or person.

She is gated in my bedroom when I am not home, so no access to any windows.

I also can't control when my neighbors enter or exit their apartment and I can't control the skateboarders who skate across the street for me. I do leave the TV on when I am home and that helps reduce some noises, but beyond that there's only so much I can do.

 

[bi-blacks]

koji goes "on patrol", help

It's easier said than done. In many cases that is impossible. I do not have a backyard. I live in an apartment, so I have to walk my dog in my very busy neighborhood. There is no other option.

I did tape wax paper to my window, so Bailey can't look out and bark at dogs. This has really worked well. Otherwise, she would look out the window all day and bark at every dog or person.

She is gated in my bedroom when I am not home, so no access to any windows.

I also can't control when my neighbors enter or exit their apartment and I can't control the skateboarders who skate across the street for me. I do leave the TV on when I am home and that helps reduce some noises, but beyond that there's only so much I can do.

You are so right, it is easier said than done. We live across the street from a school field where people walk their dogs at all hours of day and night, we have a rail line a couple of blocks away, we keep our windows closed, blinds shut but to no avail, She just senses all these things and reacts to just about everything. We certainly can't move so we have tried different devices ( bark-off and other ultrasonic devices, behaviorists, homepaths, anti-depressants and the list goes on. We have devised our own strategies to deal with our special girl and have accepted that this is the way she is. Our saving grace is our local off leash park where she loves to run and play with her brother.

Janet, mom to Meadow and Reno

 

[k9kreationz]

I so know how everyone feels. Thankfully, Koji only tends to bark at clanging tags. Not people if they're not making a ton of noise. And if I close the windows, it's better. Hotter, but better.