Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Barking 24/7

So I decided that this is just too much for Kasey. To ask him to walk like a "normal" dog when he sees another of his kind is unrealistic at this point, so I have divided the issues. Motion and noise. Great, hu? Well, the motion is common in Border Collies, and to be honest, that is where Kasey freaks out in class. Whenever dogs start to move, he looses it. The barking is interesting. I got a Sound Sensitive CD (Thanks Terry Ryan... I used this for our vacuum problem a couple of months ago) that is full of dogs barking. Let me just say that it is now at volume in which I can actually hear it. I have it playing in the kitchen. The first time I played it Kasey got all excited and jumped Holly to play. That put and end to that. She wasn't having any part of that stupidity. Then he would sporadically bark. Once we got a day of no response, I turned up the volume... a couple of levels. We started at 10, 15, 18, and now 20. It seems loud to me now, although it isn't. Do I think it is working? Hard to say. I think he is better when we are out and he heard a dog barking, but if he can see it, he's done for.

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