Pets, Your dog will stop barking excessively if proper fence training takes place


by Clint Jhonson - Date: 2007-12-06 - Word Count: 695 Share This!

How many times did you wish for your neighbors or acquaintances not to look annoyed at you just because your dog would not stop barking? Certainly, you have nothing against such natural dog behavior, yet sometimes it can get on your nerves as well, particularly if your dog appears to bark at any time, out of no clear reason. Undoubtedly, you need a manner of containing such excessive barking. You can do this with the suitable pet containment system. However, for dogs to learn how to stick to the boundaries of an electric dog fence, they need training.

It will take about a month to train a dog properly. In fact, your efforts to make your dog stop barking excessively will not require too much of your time. On the contrary, you will need two brief sessions per day, each session of about 15 minutes. For the most part of teaching your dog to stay within the boundaries of the electric dog fence, you will only pay attention to what the pet is doing. If you try to make the dog training minutes concise and amusing, they will reach their result faster. Keep in mind that different dogs learn at different rates. If your dog does not seem to get the message instantly, do not lose your patience or do not start worrying: it will learn at its tempo.

Primarily, you have to accustom your dog to the limitations of the electric dog fence. At this phase in the dog training process, you must train your pet that, each time it listens to the tone, it must back off calmly from the limits. For this, you need to place your dog on a leash and go to the boundary. Once your dog has reached the signal field, you need to turn and return hurriedly into the yard. You will see that your dog will go after you.

Each time that your dog goes after you, retaining its barks, you need to offer it some signal of positive appreciation. In the case where the dog does not go after you, the phase needs repeating. You will go on with this for the following three or four days. You will see that, in the case of success with this electric dog fencing stage, the dog will walk away from the boundary in the absence of your prompting it to do so, once it has perceived the tone.

Get an assistant for the second stage of the electric dog fence training. The three of you (you, the dog and the assistant) need to go in the direction of the boundary. Remember to leash your dog. Your assistant will go on the way to the boundary and will not stop. Do not forget to give a sign of appreciation to your dog each time that it does not cross the boundary. You will then need to place various diversions on the same route, so that the dog grows used to each of them (a neighbor, a biker crossing by, even a bike or a ball, situated outside the fence).

Once you have trained it with a leash on, the time comes to take off the leash. You have to pay close attention to how the dog behaves after you have removed the leash. Does it still have problems when the situation calls for it to stop barking and not cross the fence? If the answer to this question is affirmative, your close supervision is mandatory. Do not forget that, each time that your dog manages to stop barking and stop crossing the fence, you have to praise it. In time, you will be able to direct your attention to something else in the yard, apart from the dog, as it will grow used with the requirements of the training process. With an electric dog fence, you will have a trained dog. In this manner, you have no reason to be anxious about it crossing the borders or not being able to stop barking excessively. You only have to keep in mind that positive reinforcement is one of the keys to success for the duration of the training process.


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