ferndaleflyer
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Since my daughter showed horses we of coarse had to have a Jack Russel, 3 over the years. They live a long time but I don't remember ever having a barking problem with any of them. The last 2 lived 17 and 18 years. I sure miss them even after being gone for about 7 years. You got train them.
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toedtoes
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@ferndaleflyer - I think you missed my point. It's that you can't teach a JRT (or other barky breeds) not to bark bark bark. Nor that every JRT is going to have a barking problem.
I'm just pointing out that it is not a "one size fits all" process and that with some breeds you are working against a much stronger barking instinct than with others.
Training my shepherd mix puppy not to bark was much simpler and straight forward than teaching my russell terrier mix (who also has shih tzu and peke - two more barky breeds).
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dedmiston
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I work from home and my two dogs are convinced that it's their duty to scare away the Amazon drivers, because evidently it's obvious to the dogs that the Amazon peeps are coming to murder us.
I can call out to them in the other room and our Golden will come to my side in my office and hang her head to apologize to me because she "forgot" that she's not supposed to bark. My Aussie will continue to bark regardless, because she knows that I'm too dumb to know about the murder thing. Her proof is that she always barks and we've never been murdered by Amazon, FedEx, or Jehovah's Witnesses. Not yet, at least.
Different breeds. Different individual dogs. Different behavior.
They've camped with us for years and I usually ask the neighbors. From their reports it appears that the dogs never bark unless someone comes close to our trailer (into our camp). The predictable exception though is that they absolutely lose their minds when we get back to camp, so there's a span of 45 seconds between the time we pull up and the time we get inside and they stop. We even jokingly say, "Cue barking dogs" as we pull up to camp (or home).
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ford truck guy wrote:I look at it this way,,,,
I am on borrowed time, 11 years ago at the young age of 47 my heart stopped… dead… notta, ziltch and I was going south as it GOT HOT a few seconds before dropping… I would have rather seen white fluffy clouds ! I am now the lucky owner of a pacemaker to aide in the everyday stuff like living ! ! !
I was always told to “ don’t sweat the small stuff”…. So i don't… I am just thrilled that I am able to camp, work, live, and see my first grand daughters birth last July…
Everything else is just white noise……. Stop worrying about doors, lights, sounds, and enjoy LIFE..,
I thank so many people daily for granting me borrowed time…
Personal note, I am happy we share the same air.
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I had Shih Tzu that lived with me at home and in truck. More than once somebody that knew us would find me in truckstop, "Where's Sadie?" In the truck. "No. I knocked on the door, she did not bark!"
Somebody walking by? Nothing. Me not in truck, you hit door? Nothing. OTOH if I was in there, you touch the truck, she would go apesnot.
I said she was a alarm system, not a watch dog.
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Grit dog
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dedmiston wrote:I work from home and my two dogs are convinced that it's their duty to scare away the Amazon drivers, because evidently it's obvious to the dogs that the Amazon peeps are coming to murder us.
I can call out to them in the other room and our Golden will come to my side in my office and hang her head to apologize to me because she "forgot" that she's not supposed to bark. My Aussie will continue to bark regardless, because she knows that I'm too dumb to know about the murder thing. Her proof is that she always barks and we've never been murdered by Amazon, FedEx, or Jehovah's Witnesses. Not yet, at least.
Different breeds. Different individual dogs. Different behavior.
They've camped with us for years and I usually ask the neighbors. From their reports it appears that the dogs never bark unless someone comes close to our trailer (into our camp). The predictable exception though is that they absolutely lose their minds when we get back to camp, so there's a span of 45 seconds between the time we pull up and the time we get inside and they stop. We even jokingly say, "Cue barking dogs" as we pull up to camp (or home).
Hilarious Dedmiston!
Our Minnie Aussie also saves us from every Amazon Fed ex and brown truck driver!
We live on acreage at the end of a dead end behind a gate so there are literally generally only 3 types of vehicles that pull up. The daily it seems Amazon or Fed ex delivering something my wife couldn’t live without. People we know and people who shouldn’t be there (very rare on the last one).
The Aussie and the big black bear looking mutt spend a lot of time out front of the house running loose because they don’t go anywhere and they get sick of our Shepherd pup playing “pummel the other dogs “ 12 hours a day.
The big 100lb bear dog generally walks over wagging her tail. That gets her alot of dog treats. The mini is pretending like she’s guarding the fort to the death. And the only actual intimidating dog is bouncing off the fence like Tigger Too because she doesn’t get to come out and play!
Most of the drivers are good with dogs but it’s always funny to see the ones stopped at the top of the drive calling the phone because there’s 22lbs of fluffy fury doing laps around their car!
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Grit dog
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And the GSD loves getting sprayed with the hose, dunking her head in the 5 gal water bucket rain or shine and eating the 150mph air they comes out of the leaf blower!
I don’t think a water bottle would shut her up!
I also don’t think we will ever get burglarized.
Especially since after the GSD , fluffy Aussie , our attack cat (he just thinks he’s a dog. Saw him chase one Amazon driver) get done, if it’s serious the bear dog comes out of a dark corner and scares the shite out of anyone.
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That said, most good dogs have good sense. Because every once in a while bear dog will not let a delivery driver out of the car. So she may actually be saving us from a serial delivery driver in training as most of the time she thinks Amazon is the peanut butter truck! (The TV commercial)
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@dedmiston - I love the "cue barking dogs". ![[emoticon]](https://forums.motorhome.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink")
Tornado-dog always has to inform me of deliveries. However I suspect it's because he knows they bring him bubble wrap. He LOVES packages!
He also has to greet drive thru employees. He got a cup of whipped cream from one once and hasn't forgotten.
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Cummins12V98 wrote:ford truck guy wrote:I look at it this way,,,,
I am on borrowed time, 11 years ago at the young age of 47 my heart stopped… dead… notta, ziltch and I was going south as it GOT HOT a few seconds before dropping… I would have rather seen white fluffy clouds ! I am now the lucky owner of a pacemaker to aide in the ![[emoticon]](https://forums.motorhome.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin") everyday stuff like living ! ! !
I was always told to “ don’t sweat the small stuff”…. So i don't… I am just thrilled that I am able to camp, work, live, and see my first grand daughters birth last July…
Everything else is just white noise……. Stop worrying about doors, lights, sounds, and enjoy LIFE..,
I thank so many people daily for granting me borrowed time…
Personal note, I am happy we share the same air.
Thanks Ron… as am I …. Alright… enough of this sappy stuff , people are going to start talking !
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