Should I be concerned or grateful? - Page 2

my dog is the same way at 6 months old. If he barks better get up and check it out. When we are on walks and the other dogs are carrying on he just sits and stares at them like "what you gonna do" lol.  But on the training field he is much different. When they are doing the rag on the stick and moving it around he barks constantly. He has a pretty good understanding of when to/not to bark that im thankful for.

My Goran is 14 months old at home he will bark normally if say you bring his dinner, or he hears the car and me driving up to the house

On the Training field at the Club He has never barked once, not even has he whined and he goes three times a week

On protection he will gladly now go for the Sleeve not in the Hide he has not got there yet, But he never barks or whines Its strange, but i guess the helpers will get him going when they think ir right

I do wonder sometimes if he will be any good in Protection but they know better than i do , all they say is give him his own time at the moment it will come

everything else he is excellent, going over the meter jump and the A frame never a problem from the start, but bark No' Patience is the thing, it is good for sure that  every Dog  is not so predictable

Steve

And enjoy it while you can - cause once you train her to bark on command - there is a good chance that is what she will enjoy doing, more and more.

My 3 year old female who we have had only about a year never barked, never. My male barked appropriately when he needed us to know something, but I worked with him from the time he was a puppy, so we had a variety of communications that we could do, verbal and nonverbal. He literally knew what I was thinking at any moment, and I him.

Since he died, we have been spending more time with her, and my husband talk her to bark on command. Now she barks at the spot where the toys are hidden. At first she was barking at 4 am because she wanted to play. She barks to go out, barks to come it. She is a pushy bitch in the first place, but it has always been about her quietly pushing her way through to get her way. Now she is loudly pushing her way through.  :)

The upside is that she is much more interested in communciating than she seemed to be previously. I am thinking she might have half a brain after all!