He's precious. I can see why you brought him into your family. I am truly sorry you're having to go through all this! I'm sure your stress levels aren't helping the situation either, I'd be going nuts trying to figure something out. I am not even going to voice an opinion publicly about the debarking and shock collars because people just get flat out nasty over things like that. If you wanna know how I feel, I'll pm you. But, I honestly don't see the situation getting to that point, so I hope the debate is over (something like 75% of what people worry and argue about never actually happens anyway!).

I know when I was training Finn as a puppy, I trained him how to bark on command so that I could tell him when to hush on command as well. I came up with a word and a hand signal (equipped with TONS of treats, but you could just use Mr Biggles' regular kibble if he can't have treats and give him one piece of kibble at a time) and he learned pretty quickly that if he barked when I asked him to, he got praised and stuff. Anyway, it's another thought. I wish you the best of luck. Poor little man.