barking

[Aeress]

Our Britta has a barking problem. She is a lab/beagle mix. She mainly barks if you are out of eye sight or if she thinks you are leaving. It is driving me nutty.

I was weeding the side bed, she could see me but not be with me and still she barked.

Any way to discourage this? We are clicker training her.

[Sailor]

One way is to teach her to bark on command. And then stop on command. This way, when she barks, you can use the stop command. "Quiet" is a word people use. I happen to use "hush", but it's your choice.

[beanma]

Here are two articles on clicker training that technique Sailor is talking about:


http://www.clickertraining.com/node/185
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1125

hth

Btw, my dogs would bark, too, if they were behind a fence and I were in the front yard. I think I would just put her inside in that case.