Hi. Welcome to the forum. Congratulations on taking in a rescue, the world is a better place because of people like you!

Sounds like a bad case of seperation anxiety. Luckily there is a lot you can do about it. Your best bet is to google it or read up on the subject.

At present, using the ultrasonic collar is just treating the sympton of barking. S/A goes a lot deeper than that. By having an understanding of why she is doing this you can look at what you are doing wrong. Some examples:

* Not allowing the dog to follow you around so much at home
* Not saying good bye
* Ignoring the dog when you return home
* Draining energy via walking
* Maintaing a pack leader status at all times.
* Building up the time you leave them for.

These are just a few examples.

Quite often when people take in rescue dogs they feel sorry for the dog because of where they have come from. They do not set rules and boundries from the offset and give too much affection. These dogs need a leader from the outset, and when we do not fulfuil this role we get problems (dog aggression, seperation anxiety, human aggression, obsessive behaviour etc) I also made these mistakes by projecting weak energy in the beginning. What we see as being nice, caring and understanding is, to a dog, weakness.

I am not saying that this applies to you, maybe you have been pretty firm from day 1. But I do think this is applicable to most humans.

To have a balanced dog, they need 3 things - in this order EXERCISE, DISCIPLINE AND AFFECTION. Discipline means rules and consistancy not physical discipline. If you give to much affection and not enough exercise and discipline then the dog will not be balanced.

How much exercise are you giving on a daily basis?

Vicky x