Your dog barks a lot and you can't escape this fact no matter how much you love him. It can be really annoying to you and your neighbors if it becomes incessant barking. Any ideas what to do in order to control or reduce your dog's barking and make him the most loved dog on the block?
First off there are the traditional methods. Helping to train the dog are dog training and dog obedience schools and they also teach you how to handle your pet so that you can grow a lasting bond with him. Of course if you take your dog out and give him lots of exercise he'll be a lot less inclined to bark. A tired dog has less energy to bark and a tired sleeping dog can't bark at all!
Sometimes barking is good, it's your dog's main way of communicating with you. Perhaps he wants to let you know that he has heard or have smelled something. He may well stop the barking if you just acknowledge him and he knows that you have heard and understood. Try a NO or a quiet command if your dog continues to bark. Reward him when he stops barking so that following your commands becomes pleasurable to him.
Also a good deterrent to barking is giving your dog something to chew on. If you have noticed, dogs will not bark if their mouths are full. That's because all of your dog's attention is now on the new toy that you have given him.
It may be time to try a barking control collar if the traditional method don't seem to be working. Using sound so that the desired behavior (in this case, stopping barking) can be associated with the sound is how most of these work. Electric shocks can also be used to deter the dog from barking and this is used by some of the more sophisticated and of course expensive models.
Two types of bark detection are actually used in bark control collars. The sound collar uses the noise of yourdogs bark to activate and the vibration collar uses the vibrations from your dog's throat. However, neither type is perfect. The sound type can be set off with sharp loud external sounds and the vibration type from violent motion such as your dog drying himself. Collars are available which can combine these two methods and these will help to reduce the false readings.
Whichever method you use, barking can be brought under control in a reasonably short space of time, so persevere and enjoy your dog for years to come.
First off there are the traditional methods. Helping to train the dog are dog training and dog obedience schools and they also teach you how to handle your pet so that you can grow a lasting bond with him. Of course if you take your dog out and give him lots of exercise he'll be a lot less inclined to bark. A tired dog has less energy to bark and a tired sleeping dog can't bark at all!
Sometimes barking is good, it's your dog's main way of communicating with you. Perhaps he wants to let you know that he has heard or have smelled something. He may well stop the barking if you just acknowledge him and he knows that you have heard and understood. Try a NO or a quiet command if your dog continues to bark. Reward him when he stops barking so that following your commands becomes pleasurable to him.
Also a good deterrent to barking is giving your dog something to chew on. If you have noticed, dogs will not bark if their mouths are full. That's because all of your dog's attention is now on the new toy that you have given him.
It may be time to try a barking control collar if the traditional method don't seem to be working. Using sound so that the desired behavior (in this case, stopping barking) can be associated with the sound is how most of these work. Electric shocks can also be used to deter the dog from barking and this is used by some of the more sophisticated and of course expensive models.
Two types of bark detection are actually used in bark control collars. The sound collar uses the noise of yourdogs bark to activate and the vibration collar uses the vibrations from your dog's throat. However, neither type is perfect. The sound type can be set off with sharp loud external sounds and the vibration type from violent motion such as your dog drying himself. Collars are available which can combine these two methods and these will help to reduce the false readings.
Whichever method you use, barking can be brought under control in a reasonably short space of time, so persevere and enjoy your dog for years to come.
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