Naughty Billy!

[simon arnold]

Can anyone help,
Billy aka Stock stallion was the perfect hound until recently. The last few weeks occasionally when we get up in the morning he has left us some rather unpleasant presents in the middle of the rug Also he has started barking at anything that moves when we walk him until recently I had never heard him bark!!
Is this common and how do we get our old perfect Billy back.

Thanks hoping

Tracy

[Ian]

Hi Tracy, the barking bit may very well be protective behaviour, my mother in laws Springer does it with people (specifically) that she does know, so if we have a delivery both her and Sean go to see what it is, and where as Sean goes for fuss, Tessie barks at the 'intruder'. To counter the problem try getting him to stop the behaviour and as soon as he's quiet (and it must be only when he's quiet) give him a small treat, a small square of cheese, or whatever suites.

With regard to the nasty mess there's a discussion on the forum started by "joethehound" who has that very same problem. We've never had to fix it with Sean because he sleep in our bedroom overnight on the very few occassions he's wanted to do something nasty, he has woken us up to let him out, might there be a solution there?

Is there anything that's changed for Billy just before all this started happening? A run in with another dog? A change to his routine? A change to his food? What about fireworks? Any being set off in the area recently?

[Ian]

'joethehound' thread: greyhoundhomer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=medical&action=display&thread=736

[simon arnold]

Thanks Mark I had just seen the post for Joe maybe it is just something in the air at the moment. Nothing has changed for Billy and no fireworks here yet but I am looking forward to when they start!!
With regards to barking I think he is just trying to be boss we have a lot of small dogs near us that are always off their leads and come and bark at him and he has never replied before I think he has just had enough ;D