My brother's dog barks NON-STOP - at me only!
Teresa Mancuso
If the dog is serious about biting you, little nips won't be it. It seems
from what you describe, the dog wants to get your attention since it also
takes joy and delight in playing with you. This does not sound like it's
doing the watchdog thing, but barking for other reasons. If it barks and
you've given attention in the past, the dog may think barking is the way to
go. Now, you have to quiet it down, right. I have a GSD 7-year old female
who now barks when folks come because she is competing for attention with a
3-year old GSD and 5 year old GSD who move more easily and may get in her
way when the old gal is looking for pets. Your dog may be exhibiting the
same "Hey, look, see me, I'm here, pay attention" behavior.
Handle this patiently. You don't want to break its spirit. Perhaps you
could try to engage the dog in a jolly manner and play a while, talking,
laughing, making happy gestures. A little tug of war perhaps. Then a
treat. Call the dog to you, sit down. Help dog to learn to sit beside
you. Pet gently. Talk calmly. Does this help?
If a dog is on the alert or defensive or in guard activity, it will not
likely engage in play with the intruder so I don't think your brother's dog
is doing guard work on you. I think it wants you to engage in something
directly like fun, petting, conversation. It might even be in competition
with your brother or family for your attention. Good luck. Hope this
helps or sparks new ideas to help.
-Theresa
Beverly Parks
>My brother and his family have an Alaskan Eskimo dog, about two
>years old (maybe a little less). I'm at their house a lot. When
>I go in, the dog goes nuts. She follows me around the house barking,
>sometimes bites the back of my leg, and only shuts up when I sit down
>and am still. As soon as I stand up, it all starts again.
>But she also loves playing with me.... If I'm sitting, and I pet
>her, all is cool. Until I stand up....
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What kind of barking is it? Come-on-let's-play or
I-don't-trust-you-and-maybe-you-should-leave or
Get-out-of-my-sight-before-I-rip-your-face-off ?
You said she loves playing with you ... could she simply be trying to get you
to play with her the whole time you are visiting?
What is your response when she starts barking at you? Do you start playing
with her? (In which case she's got you quite well-trained!)
What do her owners do to curtail this behavior?
As you can see, all I have are questions. But maybe they will give you some
new ideas.
Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
Michele Ellington
In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
or very tall people.
--
Michele Ellington
AD...@rgfn.epcc.edu
Beverly Parks
>Are you exceptionally tall? Do you wear a hat? Glasses?
>In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
>or very tall people.
I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
Karma Tucker
>From: bpa...@primenet.com (Beverly Parks)
>Subject: Re: Dogs disturbed by tall people or headgear
>Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 18:38:06 MST
>Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
I have. As a matter of fact, I've had 3 or 4 dogs that would behave strangly
around people with hats on, including a poodle who would attack my father when
he'd forget and leave his on after work.
On a side note, my daughter screamed loudly when my ex husband wore a hat, and
wouldn't have a thing to do with him until he took it off, but at 10 months or
so she grew out of it.
Karma
Angela T Minard-Smith
wears one of those handkerchiefs tied over his head. Our dog will bark at him
and nip/bite him whenever he comes over to visit. I think he knows his brother
is a little scary.
I have a friend who dressed preppy, and is 6' 4" also. Our dog just
leaves him alone. No barking, no sniffing, no threat.
Steven Szep
Beverly Parks <bpa...@primenet.com> wrote:
>In article <1995Jun24.2...@rgfn.epcc.edu> ad...@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michele Ellington) writes:
>>Are you exceptionally tall? Do you wear a hat? Glasses?
>>In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
>>or very tall people.
>=====================
>
>I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
>
>Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
>
No... A canine mind is not so easily second-guessed.
I do not think like the GR Cashew, nor like the Beardie Memphis. We can
likely never totally understand across species, but what fun it is to
watch them inhabiting a world physically close to me, but mentally distant!
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Steven Szep & Cashew & Memphis
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Susan Mudgett aka little gator
Beverly Parks (bpa...@primenet.com) wrote:
: In article <1995Jun24.2...@rgfn.epcc.edu> ad...@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michele Ellington) writes:
: >Are you exceptionally tall? Do you wear a hat? Glasses?
: >In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
: >or very tall people.
: =====================
: I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
When we first got Brindle she was terrified of my tall, blond, bearded
husband. We knew she had belonged to a tall, blond, bearded man who
beat her. What we never did figure out is why she greeted all short
fat women like longlost lovers. I wish I couldve met the short fat
lady who gave her such a good opinion of them.
Mira Madans
by alternately barking aggressively and trying to run away. If the hat-
wearer is patient, he/she can usually assuage Wiley's nervousness and
make friends. But the reaction seems very weird.
Wiley also startled at a large (actually obese) person once. They've since
become friends.
Beverly Parks (bpa...@primenet.com) wrote:
: In article <1995Jun24.2...@rgfn.epcc.edu> ad...@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michele Ellington) writes:
: >Are you exceptionally tall? Do you wear a hat? Glasses?
: >In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
: >or very tall people.
: =====================
: I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
: Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
Lynne Greenslade
mir...@clark.net (Mira Madans) wrote:
>My little basset puppy Wiley hates hats. He reacts to people wearing them
>by alternately barking aggressively and trying to run away. If the hat-
>wearer is patient, he/she can usually assuage Wiley's nervousness and
>make friends. But the reaction seems very weird.
>
will sit and stare at you. If you sit in a chair or on the floor or bend over
he will jump up and very gently take the hat off your head. He does the same
if I put a ribbon, clip or large scrunchy in my hair. I wonder if he thinks
that 'thing' is attacking me so he tries to get it off my head. Particulary
funny when visitors drop in wearing hats......
Elaine Gallegos
: In article <1995Jun24.2...@rgfn.epcc.edu> ad...@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michele Ellington) writes:
: >Are you exceptionally tall? Do you wear a hat? Glasses?
: >In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
: >or very tall people.
: =====================
: I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
: Bev Parks =^.^= bpa...@primenet.com
When I was a teen, my GSD had some funny quirks like that....if I put a
couch pillow on my head, the dog would flip out. He'd go into blind
panic, and run behind the furniture howling. Of course, I used to do it
a lot because it was so funny.
Once it was totally embarassing and not funny at all. I had the dog in
the park and he spotted a crippled boy about about my age (15-18) and
nearly fainted dead away. He went into the blind panic, but as he was on
a leash, it was all I could do to hang onto the leash. The boy walked on
those metal half crutches, and had braces on his legs. I was so
humiliated that I felt like crying. The boy helped a lot by talking to
my dog. It calmed the dog down enough for me to get passed and get the
dog into a sitting position.
Mary Portelly
>I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
Yes, our Casper (2yo rescued husky/akita/??) is very umcomfortable around
tall people (generally men). He had got half-way OK around a 6 ft tall
dog-walking friend of ours but the other day, this guy had an umbrella
too and Casper went into paroxysms of fear to get away from him. I havn't
noticed his reaction to hats or glasses but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't
like 'em.
--
port...@telenet.com
Mary Portelly (mum to Troop and Casper)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read". - Groucho Marks.
Rachel Priebee
> Beverly Parks (bpa...@primenet.com) wrote:
> : In article <1995Jun24.2...@rgfn.epcc.edu> ad...@rgfn.epcc.edu (Michele Ellington) writes:
>> : >In my experience, dogs are easily disturbed by headgear
> : >or very tall people.
> : =====================
>
> : I find this very interesting. Have other dog owners experienced this?
>
> When we first got Brindle she was terrified of my tall, blond, bearded
> husband. We knew she had belonged to a tall, blond, bearded man who
We have had two dogs who were afraid of strange men - particularly if
they were wearing dark colours, like overalls or a suit (which is my
theory on why so many dogs are easily trained to attack police and/or
dark-skinned people).
Mindy is afraid of most strange men - we had a house guest at christmas
and she wouldn't go near him, and when he tried to force the issue
by staring at her and trying to approach her (against my advice) she
bit him as soon as they were alone together (*snigger*).
Yet a friend called at the house a couple of weeks ago, a man she'd
never seen before, and she was fine. I don't know if it was because
he's not tall, was wearing reasonably light colours or just had a calm
attitude, or a combination of all these.
Rachel