[uprabbitry]

A guard dog that is afraid of people is a problem. Is there any way you can spend a bit more time socializing the dog?

Yes! I am with him off and on during the day. My mom has been going to see him at least once a day. He will just go to the other side of the area now when she comes close by. Before he would run from her and hide in the back corner of the barn. So he is defiantly getting use to her! Now that it is warming up there will be lots of different people around him. In the next month i will be out there building there new fence so i will pretty much be with the whole entire day

 

[Danaus29]

30 minutes of constant barking means there is something out there. It could be a house cat, it could be a coyote. You don't know unless you check it out.

Do either of you offer him treats when you are there with him? It often helps tame an animal a bit if you have treats.

 

[uprabbitry]

30 minutes of constant barking means there is something out there. It could be a house cat, it could be a coyote. You don't know unless you check it out.

Do either of you offer him treats when you are there with him? It often helps tame an animal a bit if you have treats.

Yes we both do! He eats them from me but will not take or eat anything from anyone else. If my mom gives him a treat he wait to eat it till she is gone back in the house

 

[Danaus29]

It takes time and patience to earn the trust of an abused or neglected dog. As long as there is progress, keep working with him. Some dogs are damaged so badly that they never come around.

 

[motdaugrnds]

Sounds like a good dog for your stock; just needs quite a bit of socializing with humans....so it can discover for itself the humans living at his place are not going to abuse him. (It would help if every human would simply take a few treats, go out into the pen where that canine is and simply sit down and wait. With lots of patience your dog will eventually come over for the treats...if it is something it truly enjoys. )

 

[IceFire]

Update! He has been doing really good! He has not tore anything apart in a while! He dig holes but not digging out of the area or even trying to get out! The only thing we have really been having to deal with is every night from 10:30-11:00pm he barks non stop. I don't know what it is that is bothering him at that time each night. I have gone out a few different time and didn't see of hear anything. 3 nights a go i put out motion activated solar lights and he has not made a noise in 3 nights! So im not sure if the lights are what helped or if something quit coming each night

Glad to hear he has been doing better. My Anatolian will often bark at knight...along with the Husky and Malinois. That tells you there is SOMETHING out there...even if it's just a TOAD! (We've had a few toads outside the fence, and the dogs go absolutely nuts.) He also sounds off whenever he hears or smells the coyotes or bobcats (and we definitely have those in the area) - or even the neighbors' cats. Even at 6 months, he has developed a very deep, intimidating bark.

If yours was trying to get out, it's probably because he heard/smelled SOMETHING out there, and felt it was his duty to protect the goats from whatever it was (even it was a cat.) Same with the barking - if he's doing the sustained barking, he's probably trying to warn off whatever is out there. The motion activated lights could be scaring off whatever he had been barking at.

 

[muleskinner2]

I have an Anatolian and she barks every night, from dusk till dawn. It's her job. I keep her on a thirty foot chain because she will dig under a fence and be gone for days. There is always something out there, and she is telling them to stay away. The coyotes are particularly vocal tonight.