{"id":1508,"date":"2012-08-31T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:09:13","slug":"solving-problem-barking-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/solving-problem-barking-dunbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Problem Barking (Dunbar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><small>This post is part of the series in response to Dunbar&#8217;s 2012 Australian seminars. See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/aboutblog\/the-dunbar-index\/\">index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Dunbar advocates <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/put-your-problem-on-cue-dunbar\/\">putting problem behaviours on cue<\/a>.\u00a0 That goes for barking, too.\u00a0 The idea is to teach your dog to bark on cue (through <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-behaviour\/dog-training-dog-behaviour\/lure-reward-training\/\">lure-reward training<\/a>) and then teaching your dog to be quiet on cue (again, through lure-reward).\u00a0 For example, you could use the sound of the doorbell or teasing the dog with a treat to elicit a bark and act as a lure.\u00a0 For the opposite, you could simply present a treat to a dog (they normally start sniffing and they can\u2019t bark and sniff at the same time) and you have lured the silent behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000000barking.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1509\" title=\"Young border collie puppy barking.\" src=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000000barking.jpeg\" alt=\"Young border collie puppy barking.\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000000barking.jpeg 604w, http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/000000barking-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea is, firstly, you can tell your dog to quiet if it is barking inappropriate.\u00a0 Secondly, by putting \u2018bark\u2019 on cue and rewarding it, when the dog barks of its own accord, and doesn\u2019t get rewarded, it may realize that is not a desirable option (i.e. negative punishment, the removal of a good reward).\u00a0 Finally, by having barking on cue, it means you can sometimes give your dog permission to bark!\u00a0 It is unfair to expect dogs to never bark, but allowing them appropriate venues to bark (when cued) means that you are not denying your dog its natural desire to bark.<\/p>\n<p>Though Dunbar believes dogs should be taught bark\/shush as a matter of course, he believes that <a href=\"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/puppies\/praise-kongs\/\">Kongs<\/a> are one of the simplest and easier solution to preventing and treating problem barking.\u00a0 For someone who \u2018doesn\u2019t have time\u2019 to teach cues for barking\/non-barking, they can easily throw a stuffed Kong to their dogs.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, Dunbar admits that it is difficult to teach an alarm or ballistic barker to quiet.\u00a0 As always, he advocates prevention through attentive puppy training, rather than trying to remedy a problem barker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunbar&#8217;s approach to fixing problem barking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[184,183,12,11,477,476,376,375,480],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-training-dog-behaviour","tag-bark","tag-barking","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-dr-dunbar","tag-dr-ian-dunbar","tag-dunbar","tag-ian-dunbar","tag-problem-barking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}