Dog Obedience Training Ideas

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I live in an apartment building, and in the building across from mine, there is always a yappy dog barking the backyard. Today it was barking for more than 3 hours straight early in the morning. I do not know anyone in the other building, but I can hear the dog clearly through my window. Are there devices that emit a high-frequency sound and makes dogs be quiet? My neighbor across the floor also has a dog who barks whenever the neighbor leaves. Hopefully this solution can deal with both.

A neighbor of mine ask me if I would buy her cockier spaniel. She said that she was deadly allergic to her and that she is a good dog, and was housebroken. I took my golden around her (at their house) and he loved her, so I said okay; because she said that she would have to take her to the pound. So we got her here and she poops and pees all over the place (even after she is let outside, where I watch her poop and pee, she will still poop in the house) and she is 2 1/2 years old, can she be housebroken at this age? Also her beautiful locks were matted and I couldn’t brush them out, so I took her to the groomers and they cut it all off (because the matted hair was so bad) will her beautiful coat return? If so, how long does it take. (PS she is still beautiful bald, but the curly locks were cute too.). Thanks in advance!
(the previous owners were in the process of moving and are now gone, cannot get in contact with them – only had a house # which is out of service. Vet says she is otherwise healthy)

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To begin with, I’m an experienced animal trainer. I spent 10+ years training horses.

I have two dogs.
One of them is a very well trained 3 year old bitch who I raised from 8 weeks old. She has no problems of any kind and is very good with other dogs and people.

Our other dog is a 5 year old rescue corgi.

From what we can tell, he was purchased as a puppy from a mill, with the intent of being a stud for a backyard breeder. For some reason, she put him in her fenced back yard, and literally never touched him (the female was spoiled rotten and lived inside).

After being surrendered, he and the female went to live with a local corgi breeder, who placed them free to good homes.

My brother got the dog, and he was taken to live at his house which he shares with another owner and dog. The other dog is extremely hyper and has absolutely no manners. The corgi spent most of his time hiding under the bathroom sink.

If you approached him, he would run away and shake-except for our daughter who he really liked (the fact that she was his size and constantly dropping bits of food probably didn’t hurt).

We visited and brought our dog. The corgi and she got along very well.

After he had been at my brothers house for about a year, the dog was getting more social though he was still very fearful.

At that point, a neighbor of mine was forced into taking a very large staffordshire terrier. She had a tiny apartment, and was moving in a few months into a retirement home. So I ended up with the staffordshire terrier.
Right after I got him, my brother came to visit and really liked the dog, he was looking for a pet he could take camping and go out on the river with him, and the big dog was already trained to pack. He offered to trade the corgi for the staffordshire terrier. The staffordshire terrier is incredibly chill, and being much larger than the other dog in the house has put some manners on her.

So the corgi came to live with us.

Since he came here, he has undergone an incredible change.

He no longer runs away from people, in fact if you sit down you’re likely to end up with him on your lap (if you don’t pet he shoves his head under your hand). He doesn’t hide during thunderstorms. He’s even started to bark and grumble like a normal corgi.

He came with no training at all, since he got here he’s learned to toilet properly and to come and sit. He still takes off if he sees someone move abruptly toward him, and doesn’t like to go through doors if you have your hand on the doorknob (we figure the breeder slammed him a few times).

Now he’s started chewing up books and destroying any sort of food packaging that is left within his reach. He’s very sneaky about it, but I know it’s him.

He also has decided he’s going to lay in doorways and not move. If you shoo him away from one, he goes to another doorway in the house.

Unfortunately, any hint of aggression, the slightest raised voice, or a commanding stature appears to freak him out. He starts to shake wildly. Eg if you tell him to sit, he sits-and shakes while looking up at you with dewy eyes.

I know it’s not all (or perhaps even mostly) actual fear. He did the same thing with storms when he first came here. The normal response of the other people who’ve been nice to him was to pick him up and cuddle him. I ignored the shaking, and two storms later he was on the couch totally chilled out.

I need some ideas on how to deal with this shaking business, and how to get rid of it. At times it can be ignored, but at other times (like when I’m giving the dogs treats) it’s really an issue- he needs to be rewarded for doing what I ask but not for the shaking bit.

Currently, I’m asking him for something then sitting there and waiting for him to stop shaking, then giving him a reward. But half the time when he sees me move to give him something or pet him he starts to shake again. I try to only work with him when I know he’s calm, and I have enough patience to sit around until he settles down.

Is there anything else I can do to help him learn to stop getting so worked up? Any ideas on some way to reprimand him that isn’t as likely to set him off?
ah, filters. That bitch is ‘female dog’

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Our neighbor’s dogs will not stop barking and since we live in a rural area we can’t just shut the windows and ignore it. Regardless of whether they are home or not, the dogs bark essentially non-stop all day, very early in the morning and sometimes at night. (They are pit bulls so it is a terrible, shrieking sound.) We have spoken to them about it several times and they constantly say that they will "take care of it," but clearly they are either unable or unwilling to do so. We live in a nice, essentially no-crime area and they are making most people in the neighborhood extremely stressed out and several different neighbors have called the police and animal control. Animal control told us that they have been fined, but this doesn’t appear to have done anything.
We are so stressed out at this point that any time we hear a dog anywhere we cringe and we are unable to focus on homework or anything because of the sound and our fear of it starting up again. Like I said, we have already contacted both the police and animal control, what is our next step to have this dealt with? Someone once suggested buying a "no-bark collar," but this is not an option because they are expensive and we are not going to spend our hard-earned money on them when they are the ones who should be taking care of the problem. (Our neighbors clearly will not invest in dog training so they are certainly not going to buy anything either.) We would like to know who we should speak to next, such as a specific person in the police department or perhaps something specific we could request of animal control, who come out to the house very often.
Thanks for the suggestions, but I can’t feed the dog because it is in a fenced in pen. Also, we think that our neighbors know we have called the police and will be very angry if we try to feed their dog anything.

P.S. We are in the U.S., any suggestions about who to call or write here?

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