Older dogs and puppies are different. Understanding this can help you spot what all the noise is about.
Older dogs
Just like people older dogs have health issues. Arthritis pain, feeling achy in cold weather, sensitivity to cold/heat/draughts and simply less tolerant and more irritable. This can cause barking at events that didn’t bother them before such as other dogs, cars, trucks or planes. Vision and/or hearing can add to the problems by causing the dog to be startled. Some older dogs have bitten people they have been friendly with because they were startled. Afterwards they are often ashamed.
As hearing goes, he may often bark first and ask questions later on a better safe than sorry principle. Confusion and even dementia can cause sudden barking. If so there are drugs to help.
If he barks at specific things like cars and trucks find a way to not let him see them. Close curtains, build a fence or move the dog to different room. If a dog suddenly starts barking for no obvious reason, check his physical condition and the surroundings. If there’s nothing obvious…go to a vet. Be empathetic…imagine how you would feel if you were the aging dog.
Puppies
Puppies are almost universally adorable but after a few days and nights of a puppy whimpering and barking …it is decidedly not so cute. You must resolve puppy barking as it leads to adult barking.
If a puppy has been taken from their mother early, he will often bark when left alone. But several ideas have been used successfully to calm puppies: put a blanket or toy around the puppy that was used by the litter, play the radio on low, or put a small ticking clock in his bed (assumed to remind the puppy of his mum’s heartbeat) or even something unwashed of yours can often work as a comforter.
A method of preventing a lonely puppy becoming an adult barker is to allow him to spend time alone while he’s still a puppy. This can be very hard for people to do – as who doesn’t feel the need to have the cute puppy at their side…but try and avoid this constant attention…train them to be independent with this alone time. Give him toys to play with alone. The key is not to spend every second with your dog, in a way it’s training yourself (and him) to do your own thing. And relax a well-trained, well-behaved dog will still need and love you.
Give your dog a bed immediately (and not your bed) and walk him to it every night. This will pay off massively. It gives him his own place to sleep (or hide) but more importantly it gives YOU your own bed with no massive hound demanding your attention every minute! Not to mention no pools of drool to step in or wipe up. Many vets/trainers recommend using a crate rather than a bed however if you don’t travel much, or your dog is well behaved, a pet bed will often do.
Puppies should start training at two months of age -don’t wait. If your puppy barks try turning away and walking out. This will disconnect the link the puppy is trying which is that barking = attention (even if it’s bad attention). You don’t rush to him if he calls you. It may take a few weeks to ingrain that in his brain so keep going…if you give in, in his mind it will be “Hmmm if I just bark long enough and loud enough, I get attention” and that is bad for you.
Do not comfort a dog who is barking. Again by doing this you reinforce that barking = attention. I know I know you feel guilty sometimes but just don’t do it. The habit will be harder to break when you try again.
Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Opperman
When Gmail first jumped onto the web based e-mail scene a few years ago, its service was available only to those who had been invited to use the service. Now it is free to anyone who wishes to use it and it has become one of the most popular free web based e-mail services on the internet. This is due largely to its large storage space and extra features like POP3 access and chat. Of course, Gmail is also very attractive to cyber stalkers and like other web based e-mail services, is popular among those who use e-mail to send uninvited harassing or annoying messages to others.
If you have been receiving unwanted e-mail from a Gmail address, there are steps that you can take to find out who has been sending you the e-mail and get them to stop.
Your first step should be to use the reverse e-mail search offered by Gmail itself. This is because it is easier for Gmail to search its own e-mail records than it is to get them to reveal information to an outside source. If you are a Gmail account holder yourself you might also have more leverage than you would as an “outside” e-mail account holder. Try using Gmail’s reverse e-mail lookup system to see what kind of information you can uncover about the identity associated with the e-mail address that has been sending you unwanted e-mail.
If you don’t have much (or any) luck with the Gmail reverse e-mail search system, there are a lot of independent reverse e-mail search systems on the World Wide Web. A simple search with any of the major search engines will turn up plenty of different search systems in which you can look up the identity that has been assigned to the e-mail address that keeps turning up in your e-mail inbox. The key in this search is to be tenacious. Do not give up if you don’t find out who has been sending you unwanted e-mail with your first reverse e-mail search. One search service might have an easier time of accessing Gmail’s records than others.
If the e-mails feel particularly malicious you might consider hiring a professional to run a reverse e-mail search for you. Gmail is especially attractive to the cyber bully because Gmail will strip the senders IP information from the header. Thus the Internet stalker thinks that he cannot be identified from a header trace.
While it is true that the header information from a Gmail email is useless in tracing their identity. That does not mean that it is impossible to identify and locate the sender of a Gmail email.
Every time a person uses the Internet or signs up to an online service and enters their email address, they leave a footprint and that footprint can be tracked and traced back to the sender. The professional investigator has developed years of sources and resources in order to obtain this information that may be unavailable to the average person.
There is also something called the “deep web” and this information is not accessible by a simple goggle search but it is available to a seasoned investigator that has spent years developing methods to search these areas of the web.
So a Gmail account may be more difficult than the average reverse email search. It may even be too difficult for the average person to trace but It’s by no means impossible for a professional that specializes in email tracing
The world is changing around the clock and the Internet had proven to be the fastest and cheapest way to communicate on a local, national and global level.
While direct marketing had proven to be a focused, trackable and measurable way to connect with consumers, e-mail marketing brought the advantage of being less expensive while providing an instantaneous message delivery to prospects and clients. Straight-forward and affordable, e-mail marketing is a tool allowing businesses to contact customers directly and with a purpose.
While helping businesses build a relationship with their customers, e-mail marketing concentrates the company’s efforts on keeping in touch with clients and continuously reminding them of their services and products. While providing a relatively lower cost for global reach, messages through e-mail marketing can be interactive through the use of graphics, music and/or whatever is necessary to engage the recipient and capture prospects’ attention. Adding a personalized touch to the e-mail message would help create a special connection with the clients.
E-mail marketing can take different forms including newsletters, announcements and promotions. And while newsletters are periodical containing news and information, promotional emails are occasionally used to increase sales. Depending on the business, one or all of these could be beneficial.
Through e-mail marketing, businesses can announce special offers encouraging recipients to take action by making a purchase or signing-up for a service. In addition, businesses can aim at developing a long-term relationship with their readers by adding value and including content informing and benefiting the recipient. Have a purpose in mind before developing the e-mail marketing piece and define the target before sending it out.
When planning to send out an e-mail message, take scheduling into consideration. Blast emailing on a Friday evening, for example, might not be a good idea. Recipients might not check their email over the weekend and those who do and become intrigued by a call-to-action will unlikely be able to reach a business over the weekend. Businesses usually get one chance to reach prospects and get them to respond. Make the best out of it!
While it is cheaper and instantaneous to send an e-mail message to thousands of clients and prospects, getting the recipient to read and respond to the message is a challenge by itself. Furthermore, keep in mind that e-mail marketing is permission based otherwise the recipient of the email may consider the message a spam – and categorizing a message as a spam is a major setback with major circumstances of negatively affecting a company’s reputation and image.
Courtesy of Manal Richa, The MarCom Network – offering Communications, Branding and Advertising solutions.
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