How To Stop Your YORKSHIRE TERRIER Barking

have you got a yorkshire terrier that will not stop barking and you have no idea what to do about it well don't worry as we have the perfect video for you [Music] welcome back to the fenrir yorkshire terrier show my name's joe and i'm a certified canine leader here at fenrir knightedis.com we are dedicated to helping you learn everything you could possibly want to know about the yorkshire terrier and then how to become a high level canine leader so you raise your very own so if you're new here don't forget to subscribe and turn on that notification bell so you never miss a future upload if your yorkshire terrier is barking all the time and driving you and your family mad and you don't know what to do about it don't worry as today we're going to be tuning in to a webinar the canine behaviorist and founder of fenrir known leaders.com will has recorded all about how to deal with your dog that won't stop barking so welcome back to another quick breakdown webinar of one of the most possibly the most common behavior problem that owners will face with their dogs and as a canine behaviorist this is something i get requests for help with every single day and that is around excessive barking so in this webinar we're going to quickly break down the most common strategies that i utilize to extremely high levels of success when implementing behavior modification programs to be able to very quickly and or at least as quickly as possible address excessive barking and not just put a plaster on the issue but get to the root cause and actually fix the problem so if you're going to be working as a professional role and want to be able to help your clients with this issue or maybe you yourself are just looking to become a high-level canine leader for your relationship with your own dog then this is exactly what you're going to be looking for in terms of specifics for excessive barking now to start off with we have to understand that excessive barking and the most common problem behaviors have a root cause and the problem is that a lot of people will try and simply put a plaster on the behavior it's like having a stone in your shoe and going to the doctor and getting them to prescribe you some morphine for the pain of a stone in the shoe you just actually want to take the shoe off and get the stone out and that's what we're trying to do here we need to find out what the root cause of the problem behavior is and then address it at the root cause now when it comes to excessive barking it tends to fall into two categories and what we like about our procedure and the step-by-step process that we go through in terms of implementing a an intervention or a strategy to be able to fix excessive barking is that inherently it will fix the problem regardless of where that root cause is coming from so we're going to dive into it and the first thing that we must address is around are we giving our dogs enough mental and physical exercise now the simple answer is often the most effective answer but sometimes it's difficult for an owner to wrap their head around the concept that unfortunately you need to wake up an hour earlier and go and do some more exercise with your dog you need to find time in the day to do some more obedience and work with your dog to be able to tire their minds especially if they've gone out and bought a higher energy working dog that has those higher levels of drive one of the most common causes of excessive barking is simply nothing more than a build-up of pent-up frustration in terms of lack of a productive outlet for physical energy requirements or mental stimulation requirements that frustration builds up they get bored they get frustrated and out it comes in excessive barking very common with working breeds in particular so what we always start with is simply by drastically increasing the amount of exercise that they're doing with their dogs now again very easy answer but not necessarily as easy to implement especially if you're coming at this for more of a professional level of being able to have that finesse and being able to have that conversation with an owner to let them know that you simply need to put more effort in it's nothing to do with the dog the dog's not broken and there's nothing that we can come in and do as an easy fix for you to fix this problem you just need to put more effort in so again we need to go through that process gently help the owner to see that for themselves and to understand it more from a why perspective which then informs the what we need to do much more easily so always always start with simply adding in more physical more mental stimulation and you might have solved the problem straight away now if that doesn't solve the problem and when it comes to excessive barking it then will fall into one category if we know that our dogs are getting enough mental and physical exercise every single day and they're still displaying excessive barking tendencies it is either a learnt behavior and the dog has learned that through displaying this behavior it gets them the desired outcome we have inadvertently taught them that that is what they need to do now again we're going to be able to correct that issue very easily moving forward that's not a problem the other one is simply we might be more of a breed related issue and it's something that the dog does naturally looking at certain shepherd breeds for example or guardian breeds it's very innate for them to want to bark a lot now also what we need to do so if we need to correct obnoxious lurk behaviors we might need to teach the dog more appropriate ways to utilize their barking and that's what this next process does so we've started off with exercise and that's important no matter what even if the exercise isn't the fix adding exercise will always help now before we can move into what is now more of a formal behavior intervention strategy in terms of being able to address the root cause of the problem and be able to really fix the behavior we cannot do that unless the the relationship with the dog and the owner is restructured unless the owner whether that's you and you're trying to become a high-level canine leader yourself or maybe you are interested in working in this professionally and you need to be able to help the owner of the dog be able to see this and that is that they themselves must become high level k9 leaders themselves restructure the relationship with their dog to then be able to much more efficiently communicate a what we do want and be what we don't want now we can't jump to those bits so teaching them what we do want and what we don't want if we don't have that excellent relationship so we start with exercise we then move on to restructuring the relationship here at fenrir we use our canine boot camp process to be able to really quickly and efficiently address that the reason that that has been so effective with so many people is because it is a structured one-month program for the owners to go through with their dogs to be able to restructure that relationship and to put in rules expectations and boundaries and to be able to let the dog give over ownership to looking to the owner for guidance and direction and it's it is that process but what's beautiful about it is inherently throughout that process we're also teaching our owners how to become high-level canine leaders we're teaching them the theories and the concepts and the ideas that means not only when they go through that boot camp to fix one problem they come out the other end as better leaders themselves which that means that they can address any other problems themselves and then they don't need us again as a k9 behaviorist which if you want to do your job right is the right way of going about it we're not simply putting plasters on problems so that we can come back and put a plaster on another problem we get to the root cause we help our owners become high-level canine leaders and then they don't need us again it might seem counterintuitive but i promise you you'll have a lot of success so we must restructure the relationship teach our owners to become high-level canine leaders themselves restructure that relationship have the dog look up to us for guidance and direction or up to the owner for guidance and direction once we get to that stage and again the boot camp can help you address that if that's what you need help with then we can move on to the the approach of actually fixing excessive barking so exercise restructure the relationship and now we get to move on to what most people want to dive to straight away but this area will not work if we aren't providing adequate exercise and we don't have a good relationship with our dogs first so now we get to move on to the meat and bones of what everybody wants when they're thinking about excessive barking and that is correcting the behavior now so when we go through correcting the dog's behavior in terms of excessive barking the vast majority of the time it will be alert behavior dog has learned i want attention you're busy so bart bart bark gets us to give them attention dog wants to then repeat it and it becomes a self-rewarding behavior that's why it is a learnt behavior now a really good analogy of this is a very common problem of excessive barking around the postman it's almost so common that it's almost like cliche now that dogs don't like postman's and the cartoons and all the things around that but it stems from unlearned behavior and a behavior that is self-rewarding to the dog so take for example the postman is coming to the door dog is behind the door bark bark bark especially guard dogs that want that person to go away they're doing their job go away i don't want you here i am here this is my house this is all in bark bark bark postman comes post the letters turns away and goes now the dog has zero concept that that's a postman and that's his job or the dog knows his postman's come i have barked desired outcome happens with postman leaving next time postman comes they repeat that behavior and it gets the desired outcome again and then it becomes a self-taught behavior and a self-rewarding behavior and that will just get more and more excessive as time goes on and then obviously it spills out into other areas it's very common and being able to kind of unpick that does require a little bit of finesse that's not necessarily what we're talking about here we're talking about more generic excessive barking but you need to understand the concept that it will most likely come from a place of it being a learnt behavior where we have accidentally either accidentally ourselves taught them that that's acceptable or we've inadvertently allowed that to be the case and now we simply need to go through and picking that a little bit like i say exercise we structure the relationship makes this bit really easy if you want to jump to this bit you can try it can work but it will be much more difficult to achieve the fast um actions and the fast outcomes that we're able to achieve if you put that effort into these places first so what we do is we go through our very simple process of correct redirect reinforce sounds very simple the reason that we want to restructure the relationship as well is that yes we are going to have to use a correction based approach to be able to fix excessive barking now what that doesn't mean is that we're going to beat our dogs we're going to hurt our dogs what it means is that as a good leader we're not going to ignore bad behavior good leaders don't ignore bad behaviors they address the behaviors they address them calmly efficiently with good timing and they get to the point and then they move on they don't dwell but they address it and they move on they address it fairly but firmly with extreme rules boundaries and expectations that is what a good leader does even more so in the dog world and that's what we need to do now yes you can go down the line of physical corrections and it will work here at fenrir we do sometimes utilize physical corrections what we like to use them for is that if the dog is going to end up in a shelter and if the dog ends up in a shelter then there's a high chance that they're going to get put down if it's going to save that dog's life then we will utilize physical corrections if need be and that can work in this situation but what we like to do if that's not the case is to be able to simply use a verbal correction now this takes us back to restructuring the relationship if we restructure that relationship and put a lot of effort into doing that then a verbal correction will carry far more weight and will be far more effective which then means we don't have to go down the line of utilizing physical corrections which might then require slip leads to choke chains to prong collars those kind of things they will achieve the desired outcome that we're looking for but we like to use the minimal amount of correction to get the job done if you want to use the minimum amount of correction put the effort into exercise and restructuring the relationship that allows you to become a better leader which means that your low end corrections carry far more weight and are far more effective if your verbal corrections don't work it's a classic telltale sign that the dog doesn't respect your authority or your leadership you need to take a step back and be able to readdress that so correct redirect reinforce what does that look like with excessive barking dog barks we correct it with verbal correction as a good leader chest up shoulders back stern deep good vocal inflection i like to use an app so that might look like sorry if this comes across loud on the mic be careful if you've got headphones on but that might be a very simple ah or a very stud no the second that barking is uh about to go no again we make it very clear what you're doing is not acceptable now if that doesn't work and we've got a case where i am going to send this dog to a shelter if i can't fix this right now i've been in that place many times of helping people in that exact situation then i might utilize a tool like a prong collar and that vocal inflection it might be an ah no and a snap on the prong collar to really be able to help them again i know a lot of the positive only people don't like that principle but i specialize in what we call death row cases where this dog is going to get put down if we do not address this right now so utilizing a tool like that can very much save that dog's life and it does work now again i don't want you to be lazy and jump straight to that by skipping the exercise and the restructuring of the relationship do that thing first and then hopefully your vocal inflection and verbal correction will work fine so you've corrected the behavior the second the barking goes time in instantly then what we need to do is we can't just tell them off and then not tell them what it is that we do want from them it's ying and yang that's why we call it balanced training we need to let them know what we do want and we need to let them know what we don't want so we've utilized that correction to let them know what we don't want now i want you to go into a sit stay and wait quiet calm good manners so at sit stay and we might wait for one second and what we're looking at teaching the dog is that if you want something you get that through being calm quiet well mannered so sit stay wait yes good boy good then we reinforce correct redirect reinforce that one second can then become three seconds of waiting quietly with good manners then five seconds then 10 seconds and then 20 seconds if you put exercise in if you restructure the relationship if you are good calm and consistent with correcting that behavior every time and then redirecting and reinforcing the desired behavior the inappropriate behavior will decrease the desired behavior will increase and over time and very quickly if you implement this properly you will have a dog that will stop excessively barking and will start to demonstrate calm relaxed behaviors because they are seeking the desired outcome which is looking up to you for guidance and direction because you've restructured the relationship and doing what it is that you want from them and now we have that good relationship we can clearly communicate that through correct redirect to the desired behavior reinforce now what we also can do when it comes to excessive barking is that we're correcting the bad behavior and redirecting them to the desired behavior which is calm good manners what we can do and what so many people make the mistake of doing this is i guarantee you might think that you've got the most annoying dog in the world with excessive barking behaviors that will still probably be a small percentage of the time of that dog's day-to-day activity as him actually displaying that behavior there'll be lots of opportunities where your dog is being calm quiet and well-mannered and we're going to skip correct redirect because they're already there we're going to be conscious and we're going to be proactive and preemptive and go and reinforce those behaviors so not only are we correcting the bad behaviors and redirecting it when the bad behaviors happen but we're also going to also on top of that reinforce when the good behaviors are there anyway so if the dog's lying down and being quiet rather than using that as a time to be oh finally the dog's not being a pain i'm going to go and do this thing you're gonna go and say thank you dog good boy yes here's a treat and again over time undesirable behavior decreases desirable behavior increases as the undesirable behavior decreases you have to use less and less and less corrections and then we can get to a point where we do live positive only and reinforcement only we can only get there through a balanced approach of leadership and then firm rules boundaries and expectations so get out there start implementing those processes and i promise you if you do you will be able to address excessive barking with incredibly high levels of success it's just the and the question ultimately is are you willing to put in the work because nothing is easy you got this problem because you didn't put the work in originally or your client didn't put the work in originally so we need to be able to get them to understand that without upsetting them we don't have to go in and be nasty or horrible about that but we need to make them clearly understand that and then be able to move forward to get to that point of a wonderful relationship with their dogs where they're happy their dogs are happy and ultimately we're keeping them out of shelters and not being put down so go put the work in and i promise you you'll have a lot of success there you have it guys some really useful tips and tricks from will there all about how to deal with your yorkshire terrier that won't 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Length: 17min 34sec (1054 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 29 2021