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good human, good human :) I wish you much luck, please let me know how it works out! I know dog agility folks who want their dogs be quiet when they trial- and if the dog barks while running or breaks their start line stay or so, they stone cold walk out of there and don't even finish the course, even though they paid good money for it and could have placed / won something. Because if you don't pull this through 100% consistent, all you'll achieve is him learning that he has to be really really persistent. If you're wanting more specifics, maybe consider taking Sarah Stremming's "worked u

Hi there! Can I throw like, a whole bunch of training stuff at you? It sounds like excitement / frustration whining, because he can't wait to work? This is entirely fixable with training, but will require you and everyone who cares for this dog to be absolutely stubborn (more stubborn than a jrt!) and entirely on the same team. Does he whine at home too? Like whining while his food is being prepared, whining when he can't reach a dog on the other side of a fence, etc? In general, in your day to day life at home, nobody is to give him any attention/play/food/anything if he is whining.