Hi , when I take my black lab out he won't stop barking at strangers , if someone comes up to us he starts barking and the same if he approaches them . Also when people come to my house or walk past the window he starts with the barking even to the point if I come home from work !!ird not enjoyable taking him out now and I want to get out on the fells with him !
Re: Barking orion would do this, too... so we decided to introduce the words "speak" and "quiet" to his vocabulary. this is how we did it (approximately) with click-treat as well... wait till he is barking... then in an excited voice, say, "speak! speak!" as long as he is barking.....wait for him to take a breath, and as SOON as he is quiet, say, "quiet!" with click/treat. if he begins barking again, repeat... speak! speak! (in a bright, happy voice) and as soon as he pauses for breath, "quiet!" with a click/treat.... he picked it up REMARKABLY fast, and now when he's in a frenzy of barking (either at one of us or at something invisible out the window), i can say (very fimly) "orion - quiet!" and he will settle pretty quickly. hope this helps.
Re: Barking Tatze used to bark at passers by - we used to treat for quiet - she hardly ever does it now Gypsy is a yappy monster, we are curing it slowly. She yaps when she wants Tatze or us to play, she yaps when I'm preparing her food, in fact - any time she's excited. So, every time, I wait for quiet. If she's yapping at Tatze I hold her collar until she's quiet, then she can go and play. It's working - we get almost no yaps for food preparation now.
