Controlling Excessive Barking
You need to be able to control your dogs barking whilst you’re at home. Try to arrange a situation where your dog barks excessively for example, ask someone to knock on your door or make a sound that you know will make your dog bark. Your dog will then race to that sound and start to bark loudly, you then need to grab his collar whilst at the same time giving the command ‘quiet no barking’. Your dog should then stop barking, once your dog stops barking give him lots of praise and reward with a doggy treat if available. If he continues to bark wrap your fingers around his muzzle to close his mouth. This needs to be firm so use both hands if you need to and give the command again ‘quiet no barking’. You may need to do this several times before your dog realises what you want him to do, be patient.
The most stressful time for us is hearing a dog bark excessively during the night when you are trying to get your well deserved sleep, this is all you need in the middle of the night is to suddenly hear your dog barking and upsetting those all around you. This can really play on your nerves and your neighbours. Being a responsible dog owner means you need to do all you can the resolve the dog barking habit. Dogs are born to bark, it is a natural thing for them to do, you are not trying to stop your dog from never barking but you are trying to stop the excessive barking that cause you so much stress.
Constant yapping does strain your friendships with your neighbours and can cause ongoing resentment.
There are lots of good and bad dog training techniques that will minimize or even stop your dog from barking, there are several links within my webpage that can take you to various sites for more information and help. Search the web and learn as much as you can, again there are different techniques around including the dog barks collars.
dog bark collars can be electronic that give a sharp static electric shock to your dog when it barks excessively. The collars learns from your dog and will only give a shock once excessive barking or growling starts, normally their are several different levels of shock given to the dog. Another type of collar is the Spray collars that can spray a citreous fluid at the dog face which distracts the dog from barking, investigate all the ways of controlling your dog’s behaviour. A large percentage of dog owners find it hard to deal with excessive and continual dog barking, you need to find several ways to try and alleviate the problem as suggested earlier in the page, be strong, take courage and continue with the training technique that you decide to use, good luck and happy training.
Dog barking in excess is not acceptable to people especially at night. When this occurs your dog requires help from you to bring it to a complete stop. The important thing is to find out what is causing your dog to bark excessively in the first place. This may take a few days of observation to discover what is causing your dog to react with this behaviour. You can sometimes find the reason for your dog barking excessively through asking your neighbours if they know of any reason why your dog barks so much especially if you are out and not able to observe. There are other ways to observe your dog barking with the use of video cameras or setting up a voice recorder to see if there is any sort of pattern to your dog’s behaviour, hopefully, this will bring to light what is causing the problem which will then give you the steps to help correct the problem. When dogs are left outside for long periods of time with no stimulation and confined to a small area they will become bored and frustrated. When this happens they will find ways to relieve the boredom and give signs to their unhappiness by barking. If your dog is left with little food or water or a toy with which they can play with again boredom and frustration will set in which may then lead to more excessive barking. Your dog needs lots of stimulation, take your dog for lots of walks get him to socialise with other people and dogs, play with your dog regularly.
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