Sensible Barking

Isaac has continued his venture into the world of bark bark barking. Last night I took the Greyhound out (Isaac was in the kennel) and as soon as Isaac saw us he gave nonstop deep chested barks (he wanted out to play). We haven’t been correcting his barking, more like encouraging it. (Noah corrected it the first morning by stomping downstairs and pounding on Isaac’s crate, but only because he was tired and didn’t remember we want barking if he wants to keep a dog).

This morning he didn’t bark in the crate when everyone got up, instead he reverted to his typical howl whine. The one thing that has come out of having a 2 month old baby, sister-in-law, and two extra dogs in the house for the week has been good barking. As I’ve stated he may still wash out if he remains like Marmaduke, but at least he’ll do it barking. The barking seems to have freed him up as well (Jen’s thought/prediction). When playing with the ball he is beginning to totally understand the bark gets him the ball (don’t worry we aren’t doing to much of this Jen, just a couple tosses and then putting him away).

Things are looking up a little bit, but when I consider Hutch and the rest of the ‘i’ litter I’m not sure they’ll look up enough. I still tend to fall on Bill’s side of the fence, but am hoping Jen is right. Only time will tell and just the fact that he’s barking was enough to make the plugging along a little easier.

Haven’t been doing any OB with him at all, not even correct his manners (just keeping him away from people if he’s out of control). Was doing tracking, but the weather turned shitty again and that was on hold as well (hoping to at least start tracking him a little more as the ground improves).

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