I have a 7 yr old Schnauzer-Poodle mix. She loves riding in the car, but barks constantly if I get out to run?

Question

an errand. How do I get her to stop barking?

Answer 1

The fastest and most direct way to stop this barking is an anti-bark collar. They are not inhumane and the level of stimulus can be nothing more than slightly uncomfortable. Eventually, you can move to a "dummy" collar, which makes the dog think that they are wearing the anti-bark, when in fact they are not. Let me know if I can be of any help concerning collar selection. As an alternative, the "quiet" command can be taught, but for an issue this isolated, I would not recommend the time investment involved.

Best Wishes,
WCK9

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/05juU

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

Hi

She does not like being left, I had the same. I did bring my dog anyway, and only went for one small errand (not really went around the corner waited 5 minutes) came back and then went for a walk, the time I stayed away was longer and longer. But never more than half an hour, and depending on where the car was parked and weather circumstances. (Hot weather etc.)

The other solution is first walk, then do your errands, dog is then tired. But this does not always work.

I can now pretty much do the shopping and the dog sleeps, he knows when I come back he is going to be driven to his favourite outing (which we have several of, do not want him to get bored)

Good luck.

Answer 4

If you need to use an anti bark collar....don't use the electric shock collar.

Use the citronella collar.

It is humane...unlike the shock collar. It just sprays a little citronella out near their neck..and they don't like the smell. It activates when they bark. And it helps keep mosquitos away..:)

If your dog is only barking when you leave the car...I really don't understand what the problem is. You're not in the car with her to be bothered by it, and she is keeping car thiefs away...

Answer 5

You can get an anti-barking muzzle from the pet
store. It does not close the mouth all the way, but
enough that they can't bark. The problem is:
she's protecting the car--that's her job--and she
is very zealous about doing it.

Answer 6

She wants to run the errand with you. Take her in as a seeing eye dog. It worked for me!

Answer 7

Get the collar!! the bark collar that will make her stop barking... You can set it on what ever level you want and yes it works

Answer 8

Bark collar or fill a Kong with treats so she has something to keep her busy.

Answer 9

Take her with you. Unless your going to the doctor, dentist or something along those lines no one will care. If you do have one of those types of appointments leave your puppy at home.

Answer 10

I don't know that you can - she's got Schnauzer in her, and that's what they do...