Teaching growling on command

Oh yeah, it works a treat with Ganache! He gets annoyed so quickly when you don’t give him his toy XD Mind you, for us it’s not a football but more of a tennis ball lol

We’ll have a think about all that, mwahaha

Cheers Axu!

I taught mine through play.

It was basically, "Do you want your toy? Then speak!"

To start with, I’d let her get really focused on a toy, then I’d gradually start waving it about in front of her without letting her catch it (I used a football for this).

After that, as soon as she even tried to bark—boom, I’d give it to her.

Then I’d only give it to her once she’d actually barked, slowly introducing the verbal command as we went along.

Teaching them to bark is fine, I suppose, as long as you aren't reinforcing the wrong thing... For instance, if you praise your dog for barking at cars, he'll just bark at them even more, which is pretty pointless. You need to find a toy or something manageable (that you can take away) that gets your dog barking, then reward him while linking it to a command word. Personally, I can't stand barking and I'd be far too worried that Fenris would bark non-stop (since he loves it) afterwards... So I wouldn't give it a go myself! ^^

And don't forget to teach "quiet" afterwards! XD

And what about barking, Célineo?

I see what you mean about the growling... ;) Let's forget that then!

I’ve just taught my girl how to bark on command.

She follows the cue either through hand signals or my voice ^^ it’s brilliant x)

Mind you, she only ever does it when she’s standing right in front of me.