31-03-2025
Half-Ginger Goldendoodle Who Looks Like a Muppet Learns to Adorably 'Whisper Bark'
One of the million reasons why we don't deserve dogs is because dogs will do anything to make humans happy. Even when your fur baby is misbehaving, he's probably thinking about how you would find him chewing up your wallet absolutely adorable or that you actually want him to steal a piece of pizza off the counter.
One precious Goldendoodle, who looks just like a Muppet character, wants to please her dad so badly, she tries very hard to bark in a quiet manner. Just look at this sweet girl!
The first thing I noticed in the precious video uploaded to the account for @Milachon45 is this sweet Goldendoodle looks just like Barkley on Sesame Street! Or close to Barkley!
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Here's a cute reminder of Barkley!
People love how this ginger Goldendoodle is trying so hard to be quiet. It's hard to tell if she's in a home library or an actual library, but either way, good library etiquette!
Teaching a dog the command for quiet or even to whisper bark is such an important skill for dogs to learn, and one person said, "I taught my dog how to 'speak quiet." It took a while, but I did it."My own Pomeranian is too old not to know how to be quiet, and Pomeranians are pretty barky by nature, so I've been working on re-training him. I've been making him go to his bed, and when I give the command for quiet, if he actually stops barking, I give him a treat.
In my opinion, positive reinforcement works best when training pups, and my own fur baby is super treat-driven so he'd pretty much do anything for a treat.
Wag Walking has directions on how to teach your own pup to whisper bark, and they say, "Now that you have your pup barking when you say "whisper," it's time to start turning down the volume. This time, only give him a treat when his barks are lower in volume. He will soon figure out that he only gets treats when he barks at a lower volume."
Maybe when my own pup learns quiet I will work on teaching him to whisper bark next, just in case I bring him with me to the library!
