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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
re-training an adult dog
My husband has a 7 year old spinger spaniel thtat barks whenever someone is at the door. I hate it and it will be a problem when we have kids. How do I train her to stop barking? Currently we say "Scout! Stop that/Stop barking!!" but she doesn't listen. Neither my husband or his parents have ever really trained any of their dogs in good manners for when people are over. We recently bought a house so people will be coming to see it and I don't want Scout barking. We can't put her in another room until people are actually in the house because she will still bark anyway.
It's really frustrating and I'm not sure what to do becuase I've never had a dog and my husband doesn't really see it as a big enough deal to try retraining her.
Re: re-training an adult dog
It's hard to teach a dog NOT to do something. Usually I'd recommend teaching an incompatible behavior, but the opposite is being quiet -- again, the absence of doing something. Hard to reinforce.
Can you practice desensitizing her to the doorbell? Have someone ring it and wait until she's quiet to go to the door. It might help to pair it with a command, like "Go to your spot" (put a bath mat or dog bed in a place away from the door, and "Go to your spot" means go sit and stay on that mat or bed). Reward her for being quiet.
It will definitely take some time to train.