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Help with barking/correcting behavior in public please.
We have a 1 yr old mini schnauzer. We resisted getting a dog for a long time because we are gone almost every weekend in the summer on motorcycle camping trips and didn't feel it was right to continually kennel a dog. But more and more people in the camping club brought their dogs with and we saw how it can work.
So we intentionally got a smaller dog and have trained him to like the motorcycle, ride on the motorcycle (in a locked protective carrier) and started taking him camping this spring. He's done wonderful. Until last weekend.
He believes that every dog wants to ruff and tumble play when they're together. And he's used to this when we take him to the dog park or to a friend's house where they have one of his litter mates. Well this weekend there were other dogs in our group that were skittish of dogs and actually sharled and showed teeth, so our pup barked back. And the other dogs didn't want to play, but our dog kept trying to go over by them to sniff and start playing. Then he would bark. He is REALLY intent on play with other dogs.
I want to start correcting his barking and wanting every dog to play. But don't really know how to appropriately do that. I don't want to stop him from playing at the dog park or with other dogs that he knows.
Any suggestions?
Re: Help with barking/correcting behavior in public please.
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