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passifloracaerulea



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My Dog Barks At My New Boots
#21808792 - 06/14/15 11:38 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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How do I get her to stop. She's acting neurotic about it and is starting to distrust my old boots too. I have to lock them in another room so she can't see them. She doesn't mind when they're on my feet but when I take them off she goes nuts. Should I just leave them out longer for her to adapt. It's been about a week now and she hasn't gotten over it yet. I've had the same boots since I got her as a baby a year ago so I guess she's used to my old boots and is confused about the new ones.
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Adolin




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if she is that young i would just let them sit out so she gets used to them
my cat used to freak the fuck out when she saw or heard plastic bags. we think its because she was abused the first few months and put into one
well, shes 16 years old now and they dont bother her at all. she'll walk right up to it if she has a reason to
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passifloracaerulea



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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Adolin]
#21808827 - 06/14/15 11:50 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've had her since she was 8 weeks, so she's never been abused or even yelled at. The worst she's had is an ugly look once in awhile. I guess the only thing possible is for her to get used to them, but it sucks when she starts barking when I get to sleep so I put them away. It's funny as hell because she howls at them too. She's a 14 pound shiba inu and has one hell of a little howl.
Edited by passifloracaerulea (06/14/15 11:51 PM)
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Use positive reinforcement. Expose her to the boots and every time she is near the boot and doesn't freak out give her a treat. The dog will learn to associate the boot with food.
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Your boots are haunted. No choice but to take them out back, sprinkle holy water, perform an exorcism, and burn them.
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passifloracaerulea



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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Crystal G]
#21808849 - 06/14/15 11:58 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Not gonna burn them. They just smell weird and she doesn't associate that smell with me. Treats are probably the best way to go.
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Wear your boots around her in comfortable environments and assert to her as alpha as they are a non-issue and something to not be interested in.
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Adden]
#21808882 - 06/15/15 12:16 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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She's fine when I wear them, and I've been wearing them around the house even.
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Separation anxiety or something, I'd talk to a dog trainer or have one come over. You'll hear that howl at your boots and shoes forever.
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Crystal G]
#21808944 - 06/15/15 12:51 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: Your boots are haunted. No choice but to take them out back, sprinkle holy water, perform an exorcism, and burn them.
i was thinking somthing along the same lines.
your boots stepped in the wrong soul puddle brotha.
burn sage fucking everywhere, perform some voodoo, bada bing bada boom
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Does she do this with other random objects?
My dog is afraid of the weirdest shit and will go ape shit if you hold it up at her. It basically extends to any new object, and a few others that were present the first time she stepped foot in my room. No clue what her deal is.
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Shroomslip]
#21808949 - 06/15/15 12:53 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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She goes nuts for vacuum cleaners, brooms, even me cleaning the carpet with my hands.
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Mine goes nuts over the vacuum as well, but that's kinda to be expected. It's loud and they don't like it.
If I hold up my foot stool she'll start going insane, if we leave an empty box on the other side of the gate and she notices it when we take her out (or any object out of place out there for that matter) she'll start barking like crazy, if I put on a hardhat she'll go crazy, if I approach her with pretty much any object bigger than a tv remote she'll start running around and going nuts. I've never had a dog (or any animal for that matter) so seemingly afraid of everything.
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With my face against the floor I can’t see who knocked me out of the way. I don’t want to get back up but I have to so it might as well be today. Nothing appeals to me no one feels like me, I’m too busy being calm to disappear. I’m in no shape to be alone contrary to the shit that you might hear. You can't wake up, this is not a dream. You're part of a machine, you are not a human being With your face all made up, living on a screen. Low on self esteem, so you run on gasoline
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passifloracaerulea said: How do I get her to stop.
animals are smarter than some humans. they are the ones who need trained. not dogs.
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: sprinkles] 1
#21808966 - 06/15/15 01:04 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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sprinkles said:
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passifloracaerulea said: How do I get her to stop.
animals are smarter than some humans. they are the ones who need trained. not dogs.
Very informative there smartass.
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: sprinkles]
#21808970 - 06/15/15 01:05 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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sprinkles said:
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passifloracaerulea said: How do I get her to stop.
animals are smarter than some humans. they are the ones who need trained. not dogs.
so the dog who incessantly barks at inanimate objects is the smart one, and the human who wants to help his dog relax is stupid and needs to be trained?
you've been making some insane posts lately, sprinkles
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: Adolin] 1
#21809011 - 06/15/15 01:30 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I forget this is a drug forum. maybe my expectations of people here are too high
someone should suggest to him that he the dog "no" .....?
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passifloracaerulea said: She goes nuts for vacuum cleaners, brooms, even me cleaning the carpet with my hands.
Was your dog a shelter dog? Because my last terrier that I had was, I didn't adopt her until she was 8-10 years old, and I strongly suspect she came from a domestic abuse household, just based on the some of the idiosyncrasies she had.
For example, whenever somebody in the house yelled, she would always pretend like she was sleeping. Her eyes would be wide open, but she would breathe heavily and even snore to act like she was asleep.
The other thing that really bothered her, is whenever I was cleaning up the kitchen floor with my hands, she would always get pissed off and bark at me whenever I did that. The only time she ever barked at me.
Which made me wonder, "What did she witness that caused her to get mad at that?" Did she witness a murder where somebody had to clean up or scru
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Hey man, whats her 'intention' level, pissed off, playing, or more of an ocd inbetween?
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Re: My Dog Barks At My New Boots [Re: sprinkles] 1
#21809026 - 06/15/15 01:41 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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sprinkles said:
someone should suggest to him that he the dog "no" .....?
that is an excellent example of an unintelligible sentence
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