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nitrox

Raksha wrote: »

Is it the noise or the movement on the TV?

No not noise, she will gladly watch an action film with lots of noise, but soon as she hears dog bark, on tv, or see a pig, horse, most animals, on tv, and sometimes even if she sees someone with very dark skin, (black) this is only on tv though, she will charge the tv barking and snarling, with front paws up on the tv stand and her nose up against the TV, its an LCD TV, and as shes pressing her nose against it apart from almost knocking it over, its going all sorts of rainbow colours,

then she will always want to go out side, (i have to let her out or she will not settle down until i do) once out side she will run up and down the garden barking at nothing, then when shes finished she will come back in and settle down, until the next time and it start all over again,

I have now trained her to go to bed at about 9-30pm, that's when my Lhasa, who is an alpha male wants to go to bed,

sorry for long reply, im trying to explain the problem, and no matter how hard i try i cannot put anything into short sentences, it also takes my a long time to post as i have to rely on a spell checker, (when my wife's not here to help me) and recheck over and over, in the hope ive spelt things right, and as for grammar forget it lol.

Raksha

I stopped my Springer from barking at the TV by praising and rewarding her when she was quiet. He trigger was squeaky doors, so we got to recognise which doors set her off (the Big Brother diary room door was one) and just praised her/rewarded her a fraction before she kicked off. She rarely does it at all now. I believe her behaviour was based on fear as she seemed to be trying to warn it off.

My Labradoodle used to hurl himself at the telly when he saw other animals. I used the 'leave' command (which he had already been taught) as that mean 'get away from that' and now he will look, but rarely goes further than watching whatever it is. He gets plenty of stimulation into chasing games with a tennis ball and a rabbit skin attached to a horse lunge line to ensure his need for chasing is being met.

Fire_Fox

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Makes you wonder how the homeless ever manage to look after a dog properly :whistle:

Be interesting to ask the RSPCA that question given that one of the 'five freedoms' is "Freedom from discomfort - by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area."