A Bit of Dog Training

The root of most canine behavior issues, particularly barking, is often the dog’s subjective feelings of loneliness and isolation. They will often resort to whatever tricks they can just to be under the spotlight.

Dogs bark in order to get other creatures to pay attention to them, especially when they are wearing halloween costumes for dogs. They could care less if the attention they get is from someone coming over to see what they are growling at, someone coming to chastize them, or someone just looking at them. As long as they get a reaction then their bark has worked.

Punishment isn’t an option.

Trying to swat a canine that is making noise is usually futile. They are quick and clever and consider it a game. They may quit barking when you are walking around gesturing with your arms but the minute you ignore them they will begin carrying on again to get you to play with them.

Just letting a barking dog in at night may make your neighbors happy that night, but it will likely mean the dog will bark every night you put it out. The animal is getting its lust for attention and thinks that it can use it to it’s advantage.

What happens after determines what happens before

If you feed your dog every time they start barking in vane that they can’t bark when their snout’s full you are just going to wind up with a fat dog who’s used to having you at their beck and call. The dog thinks that whenever it wants to eat all it needs to do is bark.

Rewarding a dog for barking at strangers that come up to the house may seem like a good idea because it makes you feel safer but it can quickly become a neighborhood annoyance. You don’t want a dog to bark just because it sees someone move. You want them to bark only when someone enters your yard and then they should only bark 2-3 times, just enough to let you know you have visitors and to let them know a dog lives here.