Training
Why the dachshund comments on everything
It is not a broken alarm. It is an earth dog that still has a job: to warn. You educate the volume; you do not delete the breed.
The dachshund was selected to go into a den and let you know, from underground, that something was there. That job stayed in the voice. In a block of flats it becomes the doorbell, the lift, the cat on the sill, the courier. That is not “a bad character”. It is a born commentator. Your work is to teach it when the comment is over.
What works, in practice
- Go and look together: “yes, it is the neighbour.” Then go back to something else. A dog that barks alone, with no ending, continues.
- Do not shout over it. To the dog that is a duet.
- Give it a job after the alarm: hidden kibble, a rug to search. The voice drops when the nose switches on.
- Close the curtains on the busiest view if it is barking at the whole street from the window.
A silent dachshund is not a trained dachshund. It is a switched-off dachshund. We are looking for the first, not the second.
Written by LA BANDA BASSOTTO, dachshund breeder in Lodi (Lombardy, Italy), ENCI/FCI kennel affix Villa Quattro Zampe.
These pages are born from daily life with our dogs. For their health, your veterinarian remains the dearest and truest voice.
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