Originally Posted by
N0help4u
What will they come up with next?
When I was a kid I always thought there just had to be some simple trick to make a dog stop barking.
Yeah pretty much.
It's a lot kinder than the shock collars though, they are as a last resort only, same with debarking.
My mum just bought one, she is going to start using it soon.
Her Great Dane is an absolute mouth.
We have tried everything to get him to stop barking with no luck, it's not barking at people/cars/things, it is just random barking at nothing, hopefully this will help.
With mine I usually threaten them with the newspaper, Prada has never been tapped/hit by it but Brody has. They both stop as soon as I pick it up and just growl instead of barking.
That sort of punishment is very personal though, a lot of people don't like to do it.
Tugging at the leash like the OP said is another similar way of disciplining them that doesn't involve actual "hitting"
I have gotten a few reddies for that comment before so I can probably expect a few again now.