Will my Great Pyr ever SHUT UP?

[CaGoatLady]

One word...NO.

 

[Brindlebtch]

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So he is doing his job! He hears something so he guards by barking to let that noise know he is there on duty! Good and alert dog.

That is why I would hesitate to try to change the barking behavior in an LGD, because they might be doing their job and can hear something you can't.

A lot of times house dogs and backyard dogs get bored/lonely/anxious and start to bark constantly and neurotically. This is a behavior you want to extinguish with training and/or change of environment. But with LGDs I might hesitate to change that behavior because they are on duty.

Anatolians are so cool looking!

 

[firefighter9208]

Both our great pyrenese bark a lot. The older one (4 years old) only barks when their is a problem. The younger one (2) barks at her own tail. I think when they get out of their juvenile state they calm down a lot.

It's kinda funny, but my wife will blow the car horn at them to wake them up during the day. She says if they bark at night, she's going to wake them up during the day.

It hasn't worked though.

Chris
www.hillboergoats.com

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

It's kinda funny, but my wife will blow the car horn at them to wake them up during the day. She says if they bark at night, she's going to wake them up during the day.

Predators are most active at night, and LGD's instinctively follow the same patterns

I sometimes get irritated when my dogs bark, but then I find something like this just outside my pasture, and I'm HAPPY to hear them :

Those tracks are about 6 INCHES wide​

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

I would not want a LGD to be quiet. Only another dog knows what your dog smells or hears. Dogs pick up smells from so far away, I would be sure he is telling "someone" - HEY I AM HERE - COME CLOSER AND I WILL EAT YOU.

Good dog

 

[Brindlebtch]

Those tracks are about 6 INCHES wide

by Bear Foot Farm

Wowza!

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[WriterofWords]

My Pyrs never sounded off unless there was a problem.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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So he is doing his job! He hears something so he guards by barking to let that noise know he is there on duty! Good and alert dog.

That is why I would hesitate to try to change the barking behavior in an LGD, because they might be doing their job and can hear something you can't.

A lot of times house dogs and backyard dogs get bored/lonely/anxious and start to bark constantly and neurotically. This is a behavior you want to extinguish with training and/or change of environment. But with LGDs I might hesitate to change that behavior because they are on duty.

Anatolians are so cool looking!

Yeah--that's why I got a fan. I didn't want him to NOT bark. I got him TO bark! LOL

 

[wjallen05]

He is supposed to bark, that's a good thing. He is warning others to stay away. We used to have a male Pyr that would bark all night long and when it would get on our nerves too bad, we'd just open the window and yell at him and he'd stop for a good while. Our female ONLY barks if there is something near, and our new male doesn't bark too much either, a little more than her but not bad, mostly only if he hears or sees something out of the ordinary. I LOVE my Great Pyrenees. Wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. They are my babies and are SO good with our kids.

 

[Chicks R Friends NOT Food]

Do you want my sister's maltese? At least Great Pyrenees have a deeper bark. This little thing makes the loudest, high pitched bark I have ever heard.