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Trish Brown wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote: What you need to do is to train the dog to behave by punishing bad behaviour on its part. Do what dog trainers do with problem dogs (and charge you lots of $$$). Go to the hardware shop and get about a foot/300mm length of iron chain - the links are ~1"/25mm long and are galvanized. Get a couple of lenghts, it's cheap. Now, every time the dog runs up and down the fence barking, chuck the length of chain against the fence about where the dog is. The chain hitting the fence makes a loud "ringing"/clanging noise (you'll know what I mean the first time you do it) and this gets the attention of the dog as well as frightens it. As you throw the chain yell out, "Quiet!" or, as trainers usually say when training dogs, "NO!". You will find that in no time at all the thing will stop barking. If your neighbour complains then you have a choice of either having a fight with him/her, explaining what you are trying to do, or telling him/her that you have full right to chuck whatever you want at your side of the fence (bearing in mind that you and your neighbour are 1/2-owners of the fence and it is only your side that you are punishing with the chain). BTW, if you travel with a dog in your car and it barks at every car passing by or other dogs it sees out of the window, carry a basin (a metal basin, washbasin) and drop the chain (with a bit of force) and say, "NO!" everytime the dog carries on - and this will stop the dog from misbehaving. This approach can also be used if your fence is one of those at which you are not able to chuck a chain and if so place a few metal buckets stragetically along the fence. By using the chain approach either the dog will give up it's barking very very quickly or the neighbour will get the message and keep the bloody thing inside so as not to hear the chain hitting the fence. (If you think that this is a bit of a leg pulling on my part, I trained our dog, who was a stray, from barking this way and even now, some 7 years after the training, a simple gentle jingle of the chain (which now normally sits in one of my desk drawers as a momento) makes him prick his ears up. The chain has a very distinctive "ring" when handled and totally different to, say, bunch of keys which he recognises as me about to go to the garage and follows me out.) Cheers. Basil, I stopped our dog from barking (and howling at the moon and whining at the back door) by using your method with one small modification. Instead of using a loud chain, I used a water cannon! (Well, not really... 'water cannon' sounded good, but it was actually one of those far-reaching water guns they sell to kids in toyshops). I started with your basic squishy-bottle, but that soon ran out of range as the blessed dog began racing up the back yard in her efforts to avoid it. No, the water gun was the way to go. Within three days, I only had to pick it up and she would stop barking. Within a week, calling out 'No' from the kitchen shut her up. Within a fortnight, she had completely stopped barking! Khangu, all you do is squirt the dog full in the face as it barks. Say SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. Do what you want to do with your own animal(s), but do NOT touch anyone else's animal in any way. 'No' in a firm, commanding tone (do not shout: you'll find yourself shouting more and more loudly and will ultimately lose your voice and still have a barking dog...). The idea is to associate the word 'No' with the squirt and the cessation of barking. Dogs are really bright and Rottweilers are among the brightest, so this one ought to respond fairly quickly. (NB. The garden hose won't work because it takes too long to go out, pick it up and turn the tap on. You need the instantaneous satisfaction of a water gun that you can keep handy by the back door.) It might be a kindness to discuss with your neighbours what you plan to do. I wouldn't take kindly to anyone assaulting my Alice without my say-so! If the neighbours express a desire for you *not* to discipline their dog, then you have every right to get exactly the whistle you describe. Or, perhaps a loud hooter which is even *more* annoying to the neighbours than their dog's barking is to you. I don't think hurting the dog is the best way to go. 'tsnot the dog's fault it annoys you - it's just being a dog. HTH, Cheers. -- All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. |
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Basil Chupin wrote:
SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. Do what you want to do with your own animal(s), but do NOT touch anyone else's animal in any way. Yipes! Didn't think of that! You're right, of course! Although, it does seem less cruel to the dog to give it a faceful of water rather than horrifying it with noise from a chain on a fence... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia |
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Trish Brown wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote: SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. Do what you want to do with your own animal(s), but do NOT touch anyone else's animal in any way. Yipes! Didn't think of that! You're right, of course! Although, it does seem less cruel to the dog to give it a faceful of water rather than horrifying it with noise from a chain on a fence... There is no "cruelty" involved with sending some noise at the dog. If you confine the darn thing in a 1m x 1m box and blast it with rap music for hours then that would be cruelty. Don't confuse training with cruelty. Cheers. -- All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. |
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:37:39 +1000, Basil Chupin
wrote in aus.gardens: Khangu, all you do is squirt the dog full in the face as it barks. Say SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. Do what you want to do with your own animal(s), but do NOT touch anyone else's animal in any way. Is there a law protecting animals from 'assault'? Cruelty perhaps but not assault surely. Regards Prickles |
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Basil Chupin wrote:
SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. In that case, you must complain to the council EVERY time it barks, And keep complain about the animal barking. Either your neighbour does something or you learn to put up with it. Then you fall over and require medical attention as a result of nothing being done and you then can sue both the neighbour and council. {:-). |
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you don't have proof, councils will ignore you. simple bait the *******
or burn it. If the owner has ignored you. take action, they can't prove it was you if you kill it first time. Terry Collins wrote: Basil Chupin wrote: SORRY! this is a NO-NO. You do NOT squirt the dog with water or do anything which actually touches the dog! Doing so is called ASSAULT and you may end up spending heaps of $$$ on legals. In that case, you must complain to the council EVERY time it barks, And keep complain about the animal barking. Either your neighbour does something or you learn to put up with it. Then you fall over and require medical attention as a result of nothing being done and you then can sue both the neighbour and council. {:-). |
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"noone" wrote in message ... you don't have proof, councils will ignore you. simple bait the ******* or burn it. If the owner has ignored you. take action, they can't prove it was you if you kill it first time. My kind of understatement, subtle??? |
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