It’s a predatory response derived from their wolf ancestry.
Just like you see your dog chasing a squirrel or wanting to run after a stick you throw, their desire to chase moving objects is very strong. If something is moving quickly towards or away from them, it’s a trigger. One of the most common reasons why dogs do not like skateboards and will bark at them is due to a natural instinct they have to chase. Our dog no longer barks at skateboards after some simple training (scroll down). This is especially the case if there is a risk that your dog will end up biting someone simply because they do not understand what is going on.Ī bit further down you can get tips on how we went about desensitizing our dog to skateboards. Knowing that your dog has aggression towards a person or item means that you have the responsibility to nip it in the bud as soon as you can. You might even start to not want to take yoru dog out if you think there’s the possibility of chance encounter with a skateboard. Now obviously, if you have a dog who hates skateboarders it will become a problem if they try to lunge or growl at a rider. The mere sight and sound of one can send them into a barking frenzy, or pure fear and anxiety, manifesting itself in shaking. Here’s some more detail on the phenomonen, based on what we saw with our dog’s aggression towards skateboards, and also what I found online from other owners.įrom what I can gather, it’s not at all unusual at all for dogs to hate the sound of skateboards. Why does my dog hate skateboards so much? The noise can irritate a dog’s sensitive hearing, as the wheels will rattle and make sounds that are very unusual to dogs. The bottom line is the sound of a skateboard when it approaches your dog sounds terrifying. It’s the noise of the skateboard wheels rattling over concrete that can trigger the dog into thinking there’s a threat approach. This instinct causes dogs to raise their defence mechanism. Why do dogs hate skateboards? Dogs bark at skateboards and hate them due to their chase response. You can read all I found out, and how we fixed the aggression problem and barking.
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I have no idea where this fear and anxiety comes from, so decided to research it and see how to desensitize a dog to skateboards. Little did I know what trouble we were letting ourselves in for it turns out we have a dog who barks at skateboards, and acts very aggressive towards the noise. For my son’s 7 th birthday we bought him a skateboard.
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