orloffer's Spoo Puppy thread! 🐩

[chickentrains]

Okay!

try not to reward any sort of bad behaviors followed by good at all when training. It takes a professional with good timing to carry this through. If you can, redirect the barking, or ignore til silence. Try not to praise too much or give her any food. She might get the wrong idea (ex. barking is good)

 

[chickentrains]

From everything that I've read, if you don't wait for 10 seconds (some places say five) you're rewarding the barking and not the quiet. That's what we do with Finn (he's had issues with barking in his crate, and when he's waiting for something like a meal and getting frustrated) and it's been helping calm the barking a lot.

I don't reward after behaviors like that. I withhold attention and/or ignore and then move on.

 

[chickentrains]

if you reward then you are counter conditioning behaviors that you don't mean to. Dog learns "if I bark but then go quiet when mom tells me to, i still get food"..

 

[black_cat]

I don't reward after behaviors like that. I withhold attention

Sorry if I didn't clarify- I mean giving back attention after 10 seconds, not rewarding with food.

 

[chickentrains]

Sorry if I didn't clarify- I mean giving back attention after 10 seconds, not rewarding with food.

okay

 

[orloffer]

Try to actively take away attention by turning your back, as opposed to just ignoring it.

Do you want her to bark to signal that she has to go outside?

I'd just deal with getting it on, and then use the back led attach thing. Finn still bites his a bit going on and off, but is getting better. He doesn't bite the leash if it's not hanging in front of his face (he doesn't bite the leash at all, now, but when he was first learning). If she's actually turning around to bite it, I'd hold a toy or something that she'll focus on at your side. This doubles as encouragement for pleasant walking.

Okay!

No, I wouldn't like her to bark as a signal to go outside.

Sounds good. Maybe I'll practice with the leash in the house first before trying it outside? I also want to try Kikopup's leash pressure game.

 

[orloffer]

try not to reward any sort of bad behaviors followed by good at all when training. It takes a professional with good timing to carry this through. If you can, redirect the barking, or ignore til silence. Try not to praise too much or give her any food. She might get the wrong idea (ex. barking is good)

What seems to typically happen here is that we will, for example, be eating dinner, and the puppy gets up from her bed, comes to the front of her exercise pen, puts her paws up on the side and starts barking loudly for attention. We wait until she puts her paws down and is quiet for a moment, then go over to her and either let her out to go outside or go into the ex-pen to quiet her down. This probably isn't the best plan, but her yelping is so loud and irritating, and I am always afraid she is going to pee in the house.

 

[chickentrains]

What seems to typically happen here is that we will, for example, be eating dinner, and the puppy gets up from her bed, comes to the front of her exercise pen, puts her paws up on the side and starts barking loudly for attention. We wait until she puts her paws down and is quiet for a moment, then go over to her and either let her out to go outside or go into the ex-pen to quiet her down. This probably isn't the best plan, but her yelping is so loud and irritating, and I am always afraid she is going to pee in the house.

She is learning barking (even if she quiets down) gets her out of the place she doesn't want to be.

take her outside to pee and then put her back if thats the problem. if not, ignore the barking. Puppies bark. its apart of owning a puppy.

She needs to at least be quiet and moved on to A DIFFERENT activity (not watching you, minding her own business) before you let her have what she wants.

 

[orloffer]

take her outside to pee and then put her back if thats the problem. if not, ignore the barking. Puppies bark. its apart of owning a puppy.

She needs to at least be quiet and moved on to A DIFFERENT activity (not watching you, minding her own business) before you let her have what she wants.

The problem is I can't tell whether she has to go outside or if she just wants attention. I will start making sure to always let her outside right before dinner so I don't have this problem.

I am okay with letting her bark until she quiets down on her own but another member of the family has unusually sensitive hearing and finds barking very upsetting, which is why I try to quiet the puppy as soon as possible. I know the puppy is learning the wrong thing, though. I'll see what I can do in terms of trying to solve this issue.

 

[chickentrains]

The problem is I can't tell whether she has to go outside or if she just wants attention. I will start making sure to always let her outside right before dinner so I don't have this problem.

I am okay with letting her bark until she quiets down on her own but another member of the family has unusually sensitive hearing and finds barking very upsetting, which is why I try to quiet the puppy as soon as possible. I know the puppy is learning the wrong thing, though. I'll see what I can do in terms of trying to solve this issue.

Can you ask said family member to try headphones or some other noise canceling device? if you don't stop this issue now, by trying to tip toe around family, it will just get worse.