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It's 8:00pm and just got totally dark outside. Bacchus is out being a great guardian dog but wow, has his bark matured! It's loud! And insistent!
Is there any way to teach a Pyr that it's OK to give a warning bark or two at someone walking by but that most walkers are OK? Not to bark incessently in the loudest possible bark at every innocent person trying to get a little exercise, from the time they turn on to the street until they are a speck in the distance?
I realize there are times when it's OK, when his instinct says someone is really suspicious or hanging around, or if someone is walking a dog with a crazy light on the collar causing the light to bounce around like a strobe (he just about goes insane). But he barks at the same people every day, some who walk by twice a day! He may just want to go greet them but I'm sure the people see him as a loud threatening dog.
I always pet him and praise him for being a good guardian and tell him he's right to bark, he's just doing his job, and then try to explain why he doesn't have to *keep* barking, hoping that my calm tone will rub off. Then I may take him inside but of course he wants to go right back out.
Maybe I just need to adopt an older Pyr with a little more experience and common sense to teach him a few things?
Laurie (my neightbors must be getting sick of this) & Bacchus (but they should thank me for keeping all the bad people away) |