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As I live with my parents, I put Ilse in her crate and leave her with the radio on while I have tea with my parents; then after I came back would let Ilse out of her crate and because I have been making this a routine she has become impatient and was barking and howling.

So as neither mum nor I wanted to encourage this, as we both wanting Ilse to be a quiet dog for her breed mum decided that Ilse needed to be squirted with water; and when I went out not responding to Ilse’s barking mum silently went in and squirted her with the water.

Then another thing that I want to add is that mum said “quiet” when she squirted Ilse, then after the first squirt mum told me then to go inside the main house.

So I did that but Ilse didn’t make a noise after she was squirted twice, then two days later mum had to do this again.

Also some people make very good dog trainers, while others find that training a dog doesn’t come as natural for them as they perhaps begin to realise how much work and responsibility it takes. So what I’m trying to say is that I think people have to approach bringing up a dog as a chance to study their dog’s behaviour and their own.

As dogs don’t usually learn what we want them to learn on their own, as they need us to teach them and this requires time and a ability to problem solve and this may mean changing how we interact with our dogs and trying to look for reasons from a dog’s point of view.