OH! This sooooooo ticks me off! Bogart has become a barker!
Whereas he is perfect in Service and Therapy and never a peep out of him.....he has become SO territorial in the house and yard!
We have decided to make him PLACE on his mat everytime he barks at another dog outside when he's inside......and it the yard, I have to give the NO BARK until I sound as bad as he does!
Then, the other day, he was in the house and this one dog walked by with the owner. This dog always gets him going. Bogart knows him from walks and the dog sets him off as he gets alpha with Bogart.
So, I was having breakfast and that dog walked by. Bogart was on the couch (his covered spot) when he went into this ferocious bark! I had something in my mouth and couldn't say PLACE clearly. I wound up grabbing his collar to get him to PLACE and I turned my finger backwards!
I am now wearing a splint! OUCH!
He never barks anywhere else! On walks, church, malls......anywhere but home! Umm..........after the finger incident...we have some work to do. He was always sooooooo quiet! The terrible TWO'S?????