How do you teach your puppy to start watching over the house?

Question

For example bark when stranger is near or ringing doorbell. Or just be on guard until he knows that person is fine to be in the house like until they are talking to me.

Answer 1

You don't teach them that. It comes naturally.

Answer 2

You didn't mention the type of breed you have. All dogs do this to some extent - you don't have to teach it, they just do it. Puppies don't until they are more mature. Puppies expect you to be the caretaker. .. .when they get older they want to join in and help out.

Some breeds are more apt to guard than others. For example, dogs like Dobermanns, Rottweilers, Shepherds, Heelers, etc. are naturals, and they are considered "hard" breeds, that is, they are domineering and territorial.

Terriers are also good watchdogs - while they may not attack an intruder, they are famous for barking to alert the owner.

I have a greyhound. This is NOT a good guard. He rarely barks, although he will run to the door with me to see who it is, and because he is big - 80 pounds - people are intimidated when he answers the door, even though he probably wouldn't protect me much! (But maybe he would surprise me. . .. )

I also have a border collie. He'll bark to alert me, then hide!

My third dog is a heeler. She'd kill someone who threatened me, and I mean that quite literally.

Every breed is different. But that being said, if your dog is prone to be a watcher or a guarder, he will just do it. You don't have to teach him.

(Just FYI - dogs that are trained guard dogs are trained to be on alert constantly. That is a different thing. You don't need that - and don't want it. You need to be a pro trainer to handle that, and a mansion. LOL)

Answer 3

How old his your puppy? sometimes it may take him some time to get used to being in a new home, or maybe his bark isnt "there" yet. I also talk to my dogs, like when i get a new puppy and the other one is on guard barking at the drive way or a knock on the door, i say to him " watch,, someones here" it works some people think dogs cant understand what you are saying , but if you have a close enough relationship you have with your pet, they understand all three of mine do... when i leave the house and leave them behind i say to them " be good, and watch,, " and when i pull in the driveway i can hear all three of them barking... My newest puppy only took about two weeks to get the hang of it... and he is the best watch dog, there is ( well besides my other two...)

Answer 4

You don`t have to teach him that, it comes natural as the puppy gets older. It`s their normal reaction to protect their territory and the pack (you/family) Some breeds r better at this than others and some dogs simply love everybody. Take ur puppy to the door with u when u answer the doorbell. He will learn from ur greeting and tone of voice if the visitor is welcome or a stranger.
Barking to alert u is good, over-barking at nothing should be curbed with a firm "stop" or "no" command.

Answer 5

That is usually something that a lot of dogs will do on their own...what usually has to happen is the owner not allowing it to get out of control....but...one thing I started doing when my dog, Katy, was young....it sounds REALLY funny, but it worked....dogs feed off of human emotion, so if you want your dog to act a certain way, "feed" into it...whenever I heard something outside, or whenever my husband came home from work, I would get really excited (sometimes I had to force myself to do it), and run to the window or the door and make funny noises...sometimes I would even make growling or barking noises....my Katy followed my every move, and is becoming quite the guard dog.

Before you do something like that, though...make sure that your dog understands basic commands...no, sit, stay, etc..."agging/egging" on an agressive or obsessive behavior can easily get way out of hand if you don't have basic control over your dog to begin with. Once your dog has gotten excited and barked at the noise, stop him/her from continuing the behavior so that it doesn't go too far and be sure to praise for good behavior or give treats...do not give treats or praise if the behavior is not EXACTLY what you want, otherwise you will be defeating your purpose. Good Luck.

Answer 6

I have a dog inside I don't know if this will help but I would get my daughter to go outside and knock on the door and I would tell him to watch im and she would keep knocking on the door and I would repeat it when he would bark I would tell him good dog now when the door bell rings or someone knocks he goes straight to the door. If someone drives up I will go outside and tell him to watch im and he barks and I tell him good boy and then I let him know that person is ok, it did not take very long you just have to be persent.

Answer 7

there is not any such factor as an very nearly housebroken canines. the two he's or he's no longer. asserting a canines is very nearly housebroke is like asserting your spouse is very nearly pregnant. whilst a canines is housebroken he in no way makes use of the homestead for his bathroom. a lot of human beings don't understand why their canines does no longer understand what to do whilst taken exterior. merely turning a canines out in the decrease back backyard by himself some circumstances an afternoon isn't a thank you to homestead practice a canines. purely taking him exterior additionally does no longer mean he's accustomed to what he's being taken exterior for. the main important problem between the canines and the owner is that the canines would particularly choose to thrill yet he does not understand a thank you to talk with you. housebreaking in theory is amazingly straightforward. it particularly is calling a potential of combating the domestic dog from doing his responsibilities in the homestead and purely giving him the possibility to do it exterior. It additionally potential that the canines learns to talk with you approximately going whilst instructed to bypass and approximately letting you realize whilst he has to bypass exterior. A canines is a creature of habit and because he learns by affiliation, if his training is consistent he will without postpone study there is not any different place to alleviate himself different than exterior. We money in on an quite organic instinct of the canines - his desire to maintain his dozing quarters clean - i.e. to no longer mess his mattress. we furnish a canines a den in this variety of a canines crate. This will become his mattress that he can not get out of. If the canines crate is the splendid length he won't soil it. domestic canines won't initially like it (some will scream like a raped ape) yet interior of a few days they are going to settle for it with no problem. canines are and continuously have been den and p.c.. animals. canines for sure and instinctively desire the safeguard of a den. in the wild the extra youthful are raised in dens. They spend a large area of their first 3 hundred and sixty 5 days very close to to their den. In residences, canines usually decide for their den. they gets below a table, in the back of a sofa, in a closet, etc.

Answer 8

Dogs tend to do that by nature. By the way, dogs that are trained for guarding have the highest rate of attacking the family that owns them, and being malicious in general. A two year old boy was just killed by his family's guard dog in my neighborhood. Why don't you just treat him like a companion? That is, after all, what our ancestors domesticated them for.

Answer 9

It comes naturallu with maturity..Until he is mature, he looks to you for protection..the best way to make him a good guard dog, is to get him used to as many people as you can..so he has no fear of people..He will soon be able to sort out dangerous from harmless, and be a great guardian..However, the dog who is taught that people are not to be tusted, will usually become the fearful dog, and not stable as a guardian.

Police K9 dogs, are very well socialized and meet many people as part of their training..so that they fear no one..

Answer 10

You should really take him/her to a training place, but otherwise dogs usuallly do that. Or buy a book on training tricks, they really do work the books