The advice I've revived so far with other topics has been great..... Sorry but here's another question.
As I have a new 10 week old pup I wake up to a bit o mess in the morning. ((( not a problem as its to be expected.
How ever I kick them out into the garden wile I clean and mop up. The eldest has decided that he wants to start barking. Not all the time but once every couple of minutes. Nt a real issue to me but its 5:30/6:00 in the morning and I have nauboughs who I quite like..
Is there any way I can stop this as when I seem to tell him no he waits a few minutes and starts again or if I just leave him he does it any way.
Is the pup crated? if not that would be my first step to reduce the mess in the first place.
Next I would not put them both out unattended while clearing up; not only is the older dog barking but at 10 weeks I would want to be supervising the puppy outside, encouraging toileting where I wanted it to happen and praising success. I think if you were out with them the barking would not be happening
Cathy
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
Nonehpets wrote:Is the pup crated? if not that would be my first step to reduce the mess in the first place.
Next I would not put them both out unattended while clearing up; not only is the older dog barking but at 10 weeks I would want to be supervising the puppy outside, encouraging toileting where I wanted it to happen and praising success. I think if you were out with them the barking would not be happening
Cathy
Realistically you cannot do several tasks at once on your own, unless you have another "crate" where else can the dogs go without being in the way, the question was about barking not husbandry
Andrew wrote:Realistically you cannot do several tasks at once on your own, unless you have another "crate" where else can the dogs go without being in the way, the question was about barking not husbandry
I'd try to define the cause of the barking .
This is an outside the box (or crate) thinking exercise Andrew - per the OP the dog has started barking with the new event of being let out with the puppy unsupervised = that is the cause of the barking.
The cause of the barking can be overcome by the following routine - which is good for puppy too: 10 week puppy in crate = minimal mess. Puppy out of crate and crate door closed. Let dogs out to garden and supervise puppy toileting - very important training aspect to get puppy clean overnight. Feed pup first meal of the day; meanwhile clean crate which does not require extensive mopping etc as the whole floor would. Puppy out for toileting again and then a little play by which time crate is dry and ready for his next snooze.
Cathy
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
I take what you say on board Cathy but I'm not reading the post the same as you.
I think regardless of training for the future one has to determine when and why the dog is barking, it seems probable that the dog stops once its back indoors, perhaps have a sneaky look after cleaning out the crate? leave the dogs out longer? go out and shut the noisy bugger up?
I also believe another option to consider is the older dog has perhaps never been alone with a pup before and is a little unsure. I had a similar problem with my older bitch when I bought a pup in, it was like she was saying don't leave me alone with this new dog
I do believe the solution to be fairly straight forward more so if approached in a straight forward manner. Lets see if the OP can enlighten us some more
The older dog could have started barking for any reason, only the OP can find out. So, put older dog on a sit stay, let pup out or take pup out on its own, shut it out of the messy room and clean up. Both dogs don't have to be outside while you clean up nor do they have to go out together, assuming its the pup that's making the older dog bark, if it isn't it won't matter whether they are outside separately or together the older dog may be upset by something else entirely. Or is the older one just barking to try and entice the pup into a game?
I have always had close neighbours so teach a good shut up command from the day they start barking, simplest way of all.
In life, it is important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong.
((( not a problem as its to be expected.
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