Will my Great Pyr ever SHUT UP?

[texaschickmama]

Diesel is a great dog. I do know that they bark at night to "scare" off anything out there, but is there a trick to getting him to calm down sooner? I'm reaching here, I know. He carries on for about an hour right when we are ready to go to bed.

 

[Emzyyy]

You could try a shock collar with a remote? So he can bark when something is really there and then when he is barking nonsense just a little shock to quiet him down.

 

[ShrekDawg]

just tell him no I guess idk. although my friend did actually tell me a trick to get them to stop barking and it worked with her neighbors dog. what you do is you take a can (like a coffee can or something I guess) and fill it with rocks or something loud then whenever they bark you shake the can and it is loud and scary and so they will get scared and stop. I'd imagine it would work with any dog although her neighbors is/was a yorkie and is kinda scaredy like anyways I think so idk about a great pyranees but it should work. good luck

 

[cbhora]

No your Great Pyrenees will not shut up ever I have had three of them and they just like to talk to nature. I was out grilling the other night and Zachary was just talking up a storm I asked Zach what the hell are you barking at and he just looked at me and said sorry dad and put his head down.

LOL I took Zach for a ride last Saturday to run a couple errands we went to the bank to make a house payment and now he thinks I had to pay $900.00 for a dog bisket sometimes he doesn't have a clue. I guess dogs just bark sometimes.

 

[texaschickmama]

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I guess it's his way of "doing his rounds". I can be assured that nothing will come up here close to his coops when he is raising heck like this every night. It doesn't bother me, but my husband has to get up and go to work.

 

[Brindlebtch]

You can probably teach him a BE QUIET command, but you are going to have to be really persistent and consistent about it. That is where most dog training breaks down, because some people let their dogs get away with undesirable behaviors sometimes so the dog keeps trying because it never knows when you might give in and therefore the behavior is never extinguished.

It almost sounds like he is simply announcing his presence to everybody so all the predators know he is there and will stear clear."I'm here, my territory, trespass at your own risk!" Kind of like a rooster. Its really what you got him for, but I can see how it might be really irritating at that time of night.

Are you sure nothing is about that he needs to bark at? Maybe he can hear something you can't see? Like coons in the woods or something?

Does he bark at other times during the day when you KNOW there is nothing to be guarding against?

I'm asking this because I want to be fair to the dog. If something MIGHT be there you shouldn't extinguish the behavior because you want him to guard and it is his instinct to do so. If you know for a FACT that there is no reason to bark, then you can try to extinguish the behavior.

 

[DTchickens]

My experience, no they'll never shut up.. But after awhile you (or at least i did) tend to get used to it.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

My Anatolian cross barks constantly too...the only time they will be quiet is when they get too old to hear anything to make them bark!

However, Cash is only 4 and does a great job...I just had to get a loud fan so I could sleep at night.

 

[scarter]

We keep ours really busy during the day so she will sleep at night. It works. She doesn't bark at night. Then again ours is a total pet and we crate her at night. Her job is being with the kids during the day and then we take her out to let the chickens out and put them up at night and also the llamas. She really enjoys our early morning and late evening walks.

 

[Ducklove334]

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I guess it's his way of "doing his rounds". I can be assured that nothing will come up here close to his coops when he is raising heck like this every night. It doesn't bother me, but my husband has to get up and go to work.

you got a great pyre, you got what you asked for

he's doing what he was bred for.

you could get a hound :O they never shut up either. lol