Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
Make a schedule, if she tends to need to go out half an hour after she eats, *always* without fail take her out at that time, and when she poops outside, praise, praise, praise! You can attach a bell to a rope, and teach her to ring it when you catch her getting ready to go, when she rings the bell, she goes outside, and when she does her business, THEN she gets a treat and praise, praise praise!

When are you using "No!" ? If it is used too much, it will have no meaning at all.

As for barking, believe it or not, some people have luck in teaching a dog the command "speak" - and then it learns to bark when commanded to, but not otherwise. When does she bark that is inappropriate?

What does she get scolded for?
Her and Brennan are already on a potty schedule and I always tell her good girl when she goes potty, she just needs to associate the "I have to potty" with "I need to let mom know I need to go out" lol

I tell her no when she's getting into stuff that she's not supposed to, when she's barking when she's not supposed to...

Haha, I will try that. I've never had to teach a dog to speak before though, so we'll see how that goes . She barks whenever we have someone over at the house or if she thinks I'm in the kitchen getting ready to feed her when I'm really not because it's nowhere near her dinnertime. She barks at me when I stand up or when she's in her crate and the other dogs are loose

She gets scolded for barking, getting into things, being too rough with the other dogs, pottying in the house, just basic things that any dog would get scolded for I guess?