{"id":762,"date":"2008-12-13T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/?p=762"},"modified":"2008-12-13T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:10:46","slug":"barking-dogs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Barking Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading a blog post earlier about dogs barking when playing agility<\/a>. Obviously relevent to my interests!<\/p>\n

I blogged a long time ago about Kim’s barking habits<\/a>, but in summary:\"Kim<\/p>\n

If I have a quiet Kim on my hands at agility, I’m worried. I want her to bark. I have a dog who isn\u2019t always hyper-motivated (or even slightly motivated!) to work, and one of my sure fire ways to get her revved up is to ask her to \u201cspeak\u201d.\u00a0 The issue with Kim isn\u2019t that she\u2019s barking and I can\u2019t stop her, it\u2019s that she\u2019s barking and I don\u2019t want to stop her. (Well, at agility. I can\u2019t stop her at flyball, but I still want a barking dog!). It tells me that she\u2019s happy and enjoying herself, and that she\u2019s going to run at least one or two of her socks off, if not all of them. She’s a very vocal dog at home, which is incredibly annoying but it’s just part of her personality.<\/p>\n

Dylan is a bit of an odd one. He barks when Kim or Mollie are training, but not when he’s training himself. For a long time as a puppy, the quieter he was, the more excited he was. He still goes through phases of that but he does bark more often now. The nice thing about Dylan is he’ll shut up if you ask him to!<\/p>\n

Mollie barks constantly at training or competitions, she just finds it all really exciting and it’s hard to persuade her to shut up (unless you hand over a toy for her to wreck). She howls and sings a lot as well.<\/p>\n

I know a lot of agility competitors find barking dogs really annoying. I guess I don’t because I’m did flyball first, and anyone who has done flyball knows that barking is inevitable. I think that probably has changed my attitude to barking as well; dogs bark at flyball because they’re excited. I want my dogs to feel as excited about agility as they are about flyball, so I let them bark.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about barking dogs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading a blog post earlier about dogs barking when playing agility. Obviously relevent to my interests! I blogged a long time ago about Kim’s barking habits, but in summary: If I have a quiet Kim on my hands at agility, I’m worried. I want her to bark. I have a dog who isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan","category-kim","category-mollie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-ci","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}