Is your dog barking excessively?

Dog Barking is a completely natural and normal behaviour for all dogs and you should understand that. However, it may be a little difficult for your neighbours to accept this explanation. Common sense tells you that it is impossible to have your dog become completely quiet. What you can do is to control when they should bark, and when they should not. Follow these steps below:

- Find out what exactly is causing your dog to bark and eliminate the cause.

- Keep your dog’s favourite treat nearby.

- Praise your dog once it starts barking with a “Good job” followed immediately by asking “What is the matter Rover?”

- Simply tell your dog to “Be quiet” afterwards.

- Wave the treat to your dog to distract it. Almost all dogs would be more interested in the treat and immediately be quiet while attempting to lick the treat.

- Continue to praise your dog and say that it is doing a good job for being quiet.

- Wave the treat for another 3 seconds while your dog is quiet, then give it to him.

- Should it begin to bark again, start waving the treat in front of the dog . This time, wait five seconds of silence by dog before giving it the treat. This should teach your dog that it will be rewarded after each successful attempt.

- Each time you dog refuses to be quiet, simply say “Be quiet” in a firmer tone while waving the treat in front of it. Proceed to giving the treat to your dog if it stops barking as instructed and keeps quiet after a period of time.

- Try increasing the quiet-time intervals by 3 seconds for each successive time. Begin with 3 seconds, then 6 seconds, then 9 and so on. During the first few ‘sessions’, it is possible that your dog may require some time to learn the command. After a few repetitions, it soon learns the meaning of the command and obeys even without the treats.

Remember that they usually bark for a reason, either alerting us of danger or simply trying to get our attention.

An Amazingly Easy Way to Stop the Barking of a Dog

There is no way one can expect the dog to stop barking once and for all. The best way to stop the dog from barking is by teaching it the right times to bark and when it should not bark. It could be helpful if you get a word that could be used as a command when you want the dog to bark. Such a word is helpful since it reduces the urge that the dog feels of barking even when it is not necessary and the dog will become accustomed to barking only when commanded. An example is when you train the dog and it only barks when it hears the command, “Rover, speak!”

The next step is making the dog to stop barking when there is no need to bark. There are reasons why the dogs bark even when it is not necessary though you might not notice this. There are reasons that are primarily known to the dog that make the dog to bark even when you do not see the need for the bark.

When a dog is barking, they could be trying to inform you of oncoming danger or they could be trying to attract your attention towards something. The important thing is that you should try and realize why the dog is barking and attend to the reason even if it is by removing the same. You should then appreciate the effort of the dog by giving it a compliment like “Thank you Rover” I see it and this should be done as you point at the cause. You should then in a polite but firm tone command the dog to stop barking and after you have commanded, the dog should realize your seriousness and stop. This is a good way of teaching the dog to stop barking.

When you use this method, it should lead you to the right direction towards reducing the frequency of the dog barking and you will have a dog that is quiet and well behaved.