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Saving Money by Curing Excessive Barking in the Domestic Dog.
By Natural Dog Training.
www.Trustworthydogs.com
Dogs bark:
1) To warn intruders off
2) To draw attention to themselves or have a tantrum
3) Due to overreaction or fear
4) They are frustrated or stressed
5) Separation Anxiety.
6) They are bored.
7) Dogs bark in order to train their owners!
8) Because they have been to dog training
9) Because their steroids are up.
1) To warn intruders off. If a dog is to know the difference between normal and abnormal, friend or foe, right and wrong, he has to have mental clarity. Which is basically what this pamphlet is about.
2) To draw attention to themselves, or to have a tantrum. This means that the dog is getting too much attention, so that when they are not the centre of attention, they have a barking wobbly. How much attention to give a dog is roughly the amount of attention one would normally give to a 12 year old child. (That’s not a movie star.)
3) Due to overreaction or fear. A dog that barks through fear usually cannot see out, or does not get out of his property. Allowing our dog to see out of his property gives him a frame of reference for visitors and life in general, contributing to the dog’s (vital) mental soundness.
If, first of all, a dog is given a view out onto the street, (if he barks at everything he sees, his adrenalin is running too high – see later); and second gets taken onto his pavement for 5 minutes a day to sniff and stare at this “big new world”, he does not over react to everyone who comes in. This enables him to distinguish between friend and foe.
Trying to reassure a dog that barks at visitors thinks they are asking him for help. If everyone turns their back on a dog that is barking through fear of visitors, the barking behaviour is not reinforced. He then gets the message that all is well and he does not need to panic anymore. Trying to reassure him only compounds the problem as the dog simply thinks their owners are asking him to rescue them. Dogs do not reason the way we do.
This is because all dogs are genetically programmed for survival in the wild. And because these scientific facts are totally overlooked by both dog owners and dog professionals, the result is – a lack of ability to control our pet dogs, “disobedience” and behaviour problems. So because dog owners are not understanding their dogs, the widely held belief that that dogs “need” training persists, and they try different types of training and one new gimmick after another, (clickers, crates, water pistols, electric collars, etc.) as the new flavour of the month appear on the market to confuse dog owners (and delight the behaviour problem industry” even further.
4) They are frustrated and/or stressed.
Our domestic dog needs to be given the opportunity to be understood, and to adjust to his lifestyle and to us in order to have peace of mind, so that he does not bark in order to express his stress and frustration. This makes him easy to control and a pleasure to live with. Dogs cannot speak or attend to their own needs, so they bark in order to “cry for help”. Disciplining or punishing them does not solve their problem. Which is:
- Hunger. Dogs howl and bark for the same reason that babies cry - they need to be heard and to be understood. As people, we do not recognise a dog’s “cry” for food. Our obsession with our dog’s shape causes more than 79.4% of privileged domestic pets to experience incessant hunger pangs. The current trend to treat dogs as specimens and trophies is increasing the incidence of’ excessive and families are finding it increasingly stressful living with hungry, restless, hyperactive, noisy dogs.
Shifting the focus from the dog’s outward appearance to his feelings, and to our relationship with him removes the need to bark as a result of hunger. Like with ourselves, only the dog himself knows when his hunger is satisfied. Every dog has a different fuel requirement and this varies with such factors as the temperature of the day, the size property he lives on and his individual metabolism.
Like with ourselves, our dog needs to eat an enjoyable meal twice a day until he leaves food behind in his bowl. The carnivore continues hunting until there is food left behind for scavengers. He brings home excess food for the rest of the pack and for his food caches. Until our dog is taking in as much fuel as he is burning out, he is living under famine conditions. We have no right to dictate what shape a dog should be.
Sturdy, well fed dogs that are not anorexic are child-friendly, neighbour friendly, garden-friendly, cannot be bribed by intruders and save an arm and a leg on vet bills. Many a family has been burgled, and many a dog has been poisoned after being put on diet.
If you would like to see a copy of new independent research findings into this very important subject, see*** below.
- Loneliness. The dog may also bark because he is lonely. The compatible companionship of another dog of similar strength and opposite sex will relieve loneliness. Dogs are social animals and do not cope any more than humans do, when spending long hours alone day after day.
- Isolation. They can’t see out and/or never get out. This has been covered in point 3)
5) Separation Anxiety. A dog that is over dependent on their owner cannot cope with separation from them, and this leads to barking non stop and howling. The easy, inexpensive and proven cure for this is described above and in detail in Pam’s book on The Language of the Pack – Living with an Alien”. This simple cure is now used by holistic vets in USA.
6) Because they are bored. Toys do not relieve boredom. They wind dogs up and stimulate their adrenalin secretions – and adrenalin causes inappropriate (hunting) barking. Cow hooves that have not been over sterilized (so that they still have their vitamin B) have a calming effect on the dog.
Other calming chewies are pig ears, ostrich tendons and marrow bones. At the end of a hunt, dogs chew on bones, horns and hooves, and this activity brings their hunting steroids down again so that they can show affection and express social behaviour again. Which does not take place during a hunt.
7) Dogs bark in order to train their owners! Yes, dogs are far more successful at training humans than humans are at training dogs. All a dog needs to do is say “Woof!” to condition his owner to:
i) Come when called;
ii) Look at him;
iii) Say his name.
And the next time he is feeling lonely (dogs that live outside in isolation to their families like to see their owners from time to time) he says “Woof!” And it works so well. The solution is to let your dog become part of your family. Living with an Alien by Pam Whyte* (see below) will show you how to integrate your dog into your family without any messing indoors, jumping on furniture, chewing things or running off with possessions. Easily and kindly.
8) Because they have been to dog training. (You notice that our dogs don’t need to go to school to learn to train us. We have to go to school to (try to) learn to train them. And this process can take a year or more. Most of us are expelled. In the meantime, as you have seen, our dogs are training us. (To look at them, to say their name, to give them our undivided attention…) This is accomplished within the first lesson. (5 minutes of the first lesson, to be exact.)
This system takes its rules from the army which has nothing whatever to do with the wolf pack. Sergeant majors command their platoons – Alpha dogs don’t command their pack. So because this is an artificial system, when we command our dog, he thinks we are barking as well. (Both a bark and a command are a sharp, loud outburst, impacting on the dog’s instincts as a call to an emergency.) You only need to listen to the neighbourhood networking system to realise that it only takes one dog to set all the others off. So our knee jerk reaction to our dog parking is therefore perceived by their instincts as us joining in the neighbourhood networking system as well. (They’re dogs, and that is the way they are genetically programmed to reason.) So if you don’t network with your dog (“bark” as well), this chain reaction between you and him will automatically stop.
ii) At dog training, the dogs all bark, and their owners “bark” too. So dogs think that they all gather at training in order to bark. (They are only dogs, they don’t reason like we do.) The trainers also bark – in fact they bark at the owners as well.
Dogs learn by example. So it’s no good exposing a dog to a lot of barking dogs in order to teach him not to bark — he just brings these habits home with him. In fact, they have now become the norm.
9) Their steroids are up. Our obsession with our dog’s fitness causes many dogs to be too fit for their lifestyle. Excessive exercise causes dogs, like humans, to become addicted to their endorphins, and when they go cold turkey for a “fix” – they bark. Dog owners then think that their dogs need to “get rid of their energy” – where as they are in fact simply getting a fix, which makes them peaceful again. For a short while. As well as fitter so that he can no longer cope with the size property that he lives on. The he barks because he is stressed and frustrated.
Until eventually, many of these dogs get sent to a farm. Where they kill sheep. And are then sent back to the city, where their owners are told “They need lots of exercise…” So their new owners buy their new dog a new electric collar, which the dog soon gets used to. So he has his bark cut out, and this causes breathing complications, with further operations, and so these misinformed dog owners are caught up in the “consumer loop” ,which is propped up by so many of these myths about dogs.
Dogs that are high on endorphins do not protect their families properly as they do not have the mental clarity to distinguish friend from foe. Many also even think that the intruder has come to throw their ball for them. Or they are so busy chasing the next door cat up a tree that they don’t even notice the burglar.
Dogs get plenty of exercise running to and fro in their homes – what they are needing is mental health. Mentally healthy dogs do not bark for nothing. Do not run up high vet bills. Are automatically obedient. Automatically protect their owners. Don’t pull on the lead (see below :**), chew possessions, or dig in the garden. Are loyal and trustworthy friends. Our dogs have brilliant minds, thrilling intuition, an already inbuilt desire to please their owners, plus their own inbuilt language. Dog owners are being short changed, as they are not being given the opportunity to get the full value out of their (truly amazing, and very underestimated and misunderstood) dog. And so is he.
More good news… All carnivores (and that is what our dog is – in the wild sleep 18 hours a day. When we disturb this natural rhythm in our dogs, we get behaviour problems, high vet bills, disobedience, incessant barking, dog fights, chasing the cat, bolting out of the gate and running down the street... and possibly illness through burnout. When a dog is pumped full of endorphins through rough play, chasing or running, he then barks to call other dogs in the neighbourhood to his perceived hunt to pack with him, because his instincts have received hunting signals from all these activities.
One of our studies has revealed that 87% of all dog owners admitted to experiencing behaviour problems with their pet dogs. The reason for this - the current mindset toward dogs is focusing on turning dogs into Olympic Champions instead of developing healthy and rewarding relationships with them. Which removes their actual compulsion to bark, disobey, not come when they are called, pull on their lead, etc.
*Dogs that pull on the lead are easily cured by Don’t be a Dope on a Rope leads:
**If you would like to know more about how to understand your dog on a much more meaningful level, how to communicate with him (in a completely non-gimmicky way) in a way that he understands you and therefore obeys you immediately Pam Whyte’s best selling book on the Language of the Pack - Living with an Alien goes into this highly entertaining subject in full:
*Dogs that pull on the lead are easily cured by Don’t be a Dope on a Rope leads:
**If you would like to know more about how to understand your dog on a much more meaningful level, how to communicate with him (in a completely non-gimmicky way) in a way that he understands you and therefore obeys you immediately Pam Whyte’s best selling book on the Language of the Pack - Living with an Alien goes into this highly entertaining subject in full:
