BC is for Border Collie. Now if I play the BTAS intro full blast he loves the shit out of it so much so I think his tail will fall off one of these day’s, Loves Lindsey Stirling, Frank Sinatra’s My Way, and a bunch of others but it is kind of a bitch when taking him anywhere like the vet or just for a ride and use the turn signal he goes apeshit. I can’t find any turn signal sounds on youtube to see if I can bribe him with treats. So that he associates the turn signal with a treat and won’t tear our cars up. Any way I can fix the very high sound sensitivity?
We had this with other sounds. Finding a similar sound might not work because they have better hearing than us. Record the turn signal sound with a voice recorder app on your phone. Then play it to the dog but in a safe place for the dog and at very low volume. So low there is no reaction at all. We had to start so low that I couldn’t hear it. Play sound, mark and reward, repeat.
Try to keep sessions short and fun, gradually increase the volume. Don’t try to go too fast or you’ll just have to start over.
You probably can’t with a turn signal but see of you can turn it off or down. Most cars these days it’s not a real sound and is just played through the speakers so there might be a volume setting somewhere. Our dog was also terrified of the beeps the washing machine made when it finished. Would run off to hide under our bed, surprisingly it had volume settings in the manual and i could turn it off completely.