How easy it is to encourage undesirable behaviour!
We started to notice that Faro was whining and barking more frequently to get out of his crate.
Inadvertently we had obviously told him off for making a racket one too many times, together with letting him out when he is being noisy. This has enforced the behaviour of making a noise in order to get out of crate and if he gets told off for being noisy - even though it is negative attention, it is attention all the same. Thus we were giving him what he was asking for so he continued to be noisy as it was working for him.
Therefore we have had to concentrate hard over the last two days and ensure that we do not speak to Faro at all if he is not quiet and make sure that we DO fuss him and give attention when he is quiet & patient.
I am pleased to say that he has gone back to being very good in his crate in a very short amount of time.
As for the bad night we had of barking at 2am - that was a total one off. He is still superb at nightime. phew!!
We filmed one of our walks today and will upload that in the next post :o)
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