You need to know that there is only so much you can do to stop barking dogs. Remember that all dogs are supposed to bark. Barking is the dog’s urgent desire and instinct to vocalize their needs and feelings regardless of all the refinement and breeding over the last several millennia. As a matter of fact, the Basenji is the only dog breed that is not known to bark.
The first thing you need to do is to understand why dogs bark and the various forms of barking, some of which you may be able to control.
Causes of Dog Barking
Dogs usually start to bark when they are excited or scared. They may be angry, too. Here are some reasons that may lead them to bark:
1. Alarm barking
2. Greeting barking
3. Territorial barking
4. Attention seeking barking
5. Frustration barking
6. Injury/Illness related barking
7. Compulsive barking
These are instances that can happen every day which indicate that dogs bark as part of their life. It is safe to conclude that it is almost impossible to completely stop your dog from barking. It is a way that they will use to express themselves even of you try to limit this behavior.
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How to Stop Barking Dogs
Is the dogs’ barking warranted at that very moment it is barking? You need to determine this first. Often more than not a dog’s barking can be controlled when it is excessive. You need to consider a couple of questions when you decide to control a dog’s barking habits.
1. Is there a specific thing that triggers the dog to bark?
2. At what specific time or situation does the dog bark?
3. What is the dog barking at?
You will find that if the dog is barking as a show of territorial dominance or due to it being startled by something then yelling will not stop the dog. Consider that negative dog behavior reinforcements, especially due to territorial barking, may lead to dog aggression and even dog biting. Remember that the dog does not understand your spoken word. They may stop barking but the territorial issue is still there.
Take control of your household by creating an environment that will make the dog not feel territorial or want to defend itself. You can do this by reinforcing your status as the alpha leader of the pack and showing that you are capable of protecting the environment and space around the dog. Next, you can also prevent the dog from perceiving foreign items as threats encroaching into its territory. This may be accomplished by drawing your blinds, for example, to prevent the dog from seeing the mailman, erecting an opaque yard fence that will prevent the dog from seeing outside and maybe even preventing them from looking outside the window.
Anxiety and How to Stop Barking Dogs
Dog anxiety issues that lead to excessive barking are usually much harder to deal with. The dog is in fact trying to reach out to you by barking so that you return. If you have been rewarding them whenever you return after leaving them, and then giving them lots of attention then this is the cause. Instead you need to ignore them for as much as 15 minutes to stop them from associating your return with attention.
To stop barking dogs, we need to teach them how to be quiet and communicate to us only when appropriate. It is possible to create commands that will allow you to control your dog’s behavior and especially excessive barking. This can be successfully accomplished such that the dog only barks when there’s an intruder to alert you.
Your dog’s barking doesn’t have to be the cause of neighborhood quarrels. You have to learn how to control the barking early enough to avoid them instilling a Stop Barking Dogs sign around the community!
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