how do i stop a dog from high pitch screaming every time i start making the dinners for them, he is the same when we stop in the car and i go to take another dog out of the car he starts this screaming as though he has been hurt you can see people looking at the car, i am getting so fed up with it now,i have tried ignoring it for a month nothing, then tried telling him no quite nothing,
i even tried a citronella spray collar, but because he has that much fur did not work , i have tried every time he starts  the screaming to stop making the dinners  and walk out of the kitchen past him ,to see if he would associate that the more noise he made the dinner would not be arriving,
i am camping at a lot of shows this year in breed and agility and i do not want this carry on every time i feed him, over the last 6 weeks or more it has become
terrible i have resorted to putting him outside when i make them something to eat now, but my neighbours will not put up with it for long any ideas on how i can stop this
the screaming in the car is only when we stop and it is not his turn in agility,flyball,etc when i move away from the car he is quite no noise, but if he catches a glimpse of me the shrieking starts again.
please any advice thanks
carolann

Your attempt at stopping doing the dinners is the way to go as this is over excitement.

Only one of mine barks for her dinner and the pup gives a few woofs, so I intend her not to get started, so I use my water squirter while I am getting their food, straight in their faces.  These are confident water off a ducks back kind of characters, not sensitive at all.

If the dogs are all adults it may be worth making it very clear that if he screams he gets nothing by not feeding him at all that day (he won't come to any harm, and you could give him extra day before and day after).

Brainless, hardly dare question you and agree with your first paragraph but do you really think that a dog would realize the reason it was not fed for a day was because it barked?

Just a suggestion,

Why not put the dogs out of the room while you are doing their food , or prepare there food at a different time of day so it's knocks their routine off balance.

Peanuts

Well I think it would realise that it's barking wasn't getting results, a day may be a bit excessive, a few hours might be OP already tried delaying the food a few minutes, perhaps making him wait longer, the idea was to break the cycle.

Personally thinking harder about it I would have a covered crate Handy and put him in it before getting their dinners, so he doesn't know this is happening.  I would change the feeding time by several hours so he isn't given a clue, and then he would be brought out when the bowls were down, preferably after the others have already had theirs.

Get an empty pop bottle , one of the big ones, put about 5 or 6 cloths pegs in it. As soon as he cry's shake the bottle at him. Do it every time he starts . Soon only the sight of the bottle will be enough to stop him. also Put the dog food in there bows on the counter, so they can't try and grab it when you dish it out. Stand with the bowls in your hands and do not put them down till the dog is quite, if he wont stop, its bottle time

THE DOG WOULD SMELL AND HEAR THE FOOD BEING PREPARED EVEN IN A COVERED CAGE, IF BEING PUT OUTSIDE DOESNT WORK DONT THINK THE CAGE WOULD BE ANY BETTER,
IF AVAILABLE PERHAPS ONE PERSON CONCENTRATING ON QUIETINING DOG WHILST OTHER PREPARES FOOD, THIS MAY BREAK THE CYCLE IF USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH WATER
SQUIRTER OR PEG BOTTLE.
Stan

i have a crate with a cover on makes no difference,
also i do not have a set time they have there dinners, because on different days we are doing
different things with them so the dinners are when i decide,
i have tried with the training discs but i will have a go with the shaker bottles i have them
all over the house, i have no problems with him once i am giving out the food in the dishes
he goes very quite and waits his turn for his food to be put down, and he would never be able to
get it off the counter tops he is only 11 inch tall, when i look at it he is screaming for attention
it is like me me me me me me when the food is being put in the dishes, and also me me me me when
he is in the crate in the car and covered and he hears a door being opened or me picking up a leash
and if there is a crack in the cover he can see me out of he screams then
thank you so far every one keep it comming

Do you make their dinners more or less at the same time ? Varying the time might help :-) Can you shut them away and then prepare the dinner and then feed straight away as this will also lessen the time for him to get excited :-) Sorry just seen your post about varying the time :-)

One of ours often barks for his dinner. When he does it I put him straight out in the hall and shut the door. He stops immediately and lies down outside the door looking morose. I let him in again just before I put the bowls down and he can manage to be quiet for those few minutes. Sounds like yours is worse. I'd give the squirter a go, or try the shaker idea.

I stopped my bitch from doing this by giving her something small to chew on while I prepared her food, she is raw fed so I would give her a chicken wing before I started preparing her food, by the time she had finished chomping her dinner was ready and no howling.

I don't think leaving a dog a whole day without food is a good plan.

I used to have a dog like this and I found that the only solution was to take him away from the others. For example, he would scream with excitement every time we went out - to the car, for a walk, whatever. I solved it by picking him up without going anywhere near the leads (small breed :)) and taking him outside, then putting him in the car. Then I could come back for the others (I had four dogs), put their leads on, go to the car and get him out and he would behave perfectly. Before I did that I had several fights because he just wound everyone up.

I think I tried all the ideas that have been suggested here, because he would get wound up by other things as well. He wasn't too bad with food (not a particularly greedy dog anyway), but making him wait - for anything - just made things worse until he was nearly hysterical. I solved the car screaming by putting him in a harness on the front seat - although until the day he died (aged 15) he would always bark the moment the car stopped.

You have my sympathies - it really got me down. Thankfully, the two girls I have now rarely bark at anything.

my dog has started making an awful noise when he sees dog's but can't play with them, he gets so worked up and excited it's awful and some people have given me really funny looks, any ideas to help with screaming in this situation?

I can also sympathise! I think it's easier to solve the problems if you've only got a single dog.

With a multi-dog household things are far more difficult. Their food is prepared in the utility room and the feeding regime consists of Winnie tied to a kitchen unit in the kitchen as she winds up the others, another is quiet as a mouse in a crate in the utility room, I have another on the lead with my foot on it which keeps her quiet, leaving the old boy huffing and puffing waiting for his food, and Hamish and Esme loose. Hamish barks, and unless he is also put on a lead, will not shut up. Esme would be quiet if it wasn't for him barking!

I then pass Mum Esme's food along with Winnie's and they go off to the kitchen while I put down the food for Charlie, Lottie, Hamish and Hattie in the utility!

Getting ready for a walk is equally as bad!

So as I say, I can sympathise! It must be these darn agility dogs!

At least yours is only 11 inches tall, mine are large dogs, and if I turn my back for a minute I know one of them will be nicking the food off the worktop!

i have to agree about him winding the others up, he goes on that much my bitch will grab him if given half the chance
she is a wsd and shake him, it is as though she is telling him to shut up we have all had enough,
i have tried putting him in the car first and then getting the others ready and into the car as well but as soon as the door opens
the banshi starts and when you are trying to creep around at 4.30am in the morning trying to be quite for the neighbours
as they will not understand about going to a show etc, i have even thought about a muzzle one of those little black is it nikki ones
but i do not think they make one small enough for him,
reading the posts makes me realise i am not the only one,
i have 7 dogs from small to large and it is only him that will do the barking i hear a peep from the others and i can just go aaahhh
and quite while he is bouncing and practically back flipping off the walls.

Why not prepare the food but if pup barks then just put it to one side. When pup isnt taking any notice (may be some time later) then put the food down. In time pup should be de sensitised and will stop assosiating you preparing the food to him getting fed