Barking....

When I first got Wicca I knew that being a corgi barking would be something that I would really have to work on. Overall, she is not too bad -saving the majority of her barking to tell me off on course or when we are scent hurdle racing, she is pretty good at home and in her kennel. However, I have used a bark collar on her before and it worked very welll. I haven't used it in quite a while but am thinking of dusting it off for Sam. In the house and in life is actually a very quiet dog but when I am working them in the backyard they each have a turn and are expected to wait quietly in the dog run until their turn. Sam hasn't figured out the quietly part...He doesn't care too much about the dogs themselves, I think it is more the fact that they are having fun and he isn't. Today he went ballistic while I was working with Kate and the broad jump- throwing himself against the pen and barking histarically...I calmly put Kate in a downstay and asked him to be quite. No response- stopped heaving himself against the gate but the barking continued...I thought for a minute...what would be the best way to deal with this...In the end I decided that I would ask him once more and if he didn't respond follow it up with something negative- namely me marching over grabbing him out of the run and putting him in the house. He therefore had to forfeit his second turn...poor bugger....
His first "turn" went very well though- we worked on some attention work and some puppy calisthenics (fast sit, down, stand- in any order) so I was a little dissapointed not to work him again but thought that he needed to miss out to get the point....
So- instead of having to go through all that I think that the "collar" may have to come out of the closet..