Neither of mine, male and female, bark. Someone knocks on the door - nothing. The cat runs from room to room, nothing. I did hear my male growl once, when he was introduced to the female GS across the street. And then, nothing. He just ignored her.
When I was walking them one day, I saw my mailman of 15 years who did not know I had two dogs. They did not pay any attention to him.
But they are mine and I would not part with them for any reason. Thank goodness they are large and at least look like they would bite!
Jan 21, 2010 Rating
barks & motivators by: wendy
If he is motivated by food, then try saving some of his daily ration for training purposes. As for barking, he might develop that as he matures. I don't encourage bark training, as it can backfire, resulting in complaints from neighbours, postal carriers, etc when you are not home.
In 28 years of owning gsd's i never had to train them to bark, they knew when there was something to bark at & when they did i always check them & praise them. "Yes, I see that man/dog/ paper cup in the road. Good dog. Now be quiet please."
Jan 03, 2010 Rating
response by: Anonymous
He barks when he is hungry....as in if he hasn't eaten and we come outside...he barks for us to open the cage and get food....aside from that...nothing.
He doesn't bark when other dogs are barking at him nor when he sees strangers or anything like that. We tried the youtube thing and he just looked at me and sat down. He is only five months old though so I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
The thing is we want a security dog that will bark around strangers and things of that nature and I am not seeing any of that defensive drive in him....yet
Jan 03, 2010 Rating
Strange training method.... by: Anonymous
Have you ever heard him bark? This sounds strange, and we have never done this with another dog, but to get our dog to "speak", we would say the command, then play a dog barking on youtube.
She never barked before this, and since then she speaks on command and also lets us know if someone is here. Believe it or not, it took less than a half hour for her to learn this.
