The dog I used to have had an indoor voice of sorts. Since it's easy to teach them to speak, I just used my voice to teach him to speak quietly. I then included shushing noises with the command. Eventually when he would start barking about something, I'd shush him, and he'd know it was ok to bark, but he needed to be quiet about it.
Of course my training was a bit unique. Most peoples dogs know the command 'Go lay down', for my dogs the command was 'Fuck Off!'.
Gone mad
Re: Gone mad
Way back when I had a dog; and she was still just a pup; (and I was not more than a pup myself)- she didn't seem to know when to stop eating.
The three of us kids were given soup and sandwiches for lunch, and decided to see if the puppy wanted the left-overs at the bottom of our bowls ...all three of them. She cleaned them all out so famishedly; we poured her, her own FULL bowl, which she also devoured.
Afterwards her tummy wasn't bulging; it was a complete rotund sphere. She was a bowling ball with legs; worse still a happy bowling ball! Wagging her tail was enough wieghtshift to send her whole body wobbling to and fro!
The three of us kids were given soup and sandwiches for lunch, and decided to see if the puppy wanted the left-overs at the bottom of our bowls ...all three of them. She cleaned them all out so famishedly; we poured her, her own FULL bowl, which she also devoured.
Afterwards her tummy wasn't bulging; it was a complete rotund sphere. She was a bowling ball with legs; worse still a happy bowling ball! Wagging her tail was enough wieghtshift to send her whole body wobbling to and fro!
