Archive for February 16th, 2009
Tips To Help you Stop Dog Barking
You just got a new dog. Your excited about it and have decided on a name. Now that you have it home you have to train it. One of the first problems most dog owners have is teaching their dog when it is okay to bark and when it is not okay to bark. This article will take a look at a few ways you can get this started quickly.
Positive reinforcement is the first thing you have to make your dog understand. When it doesn't bark upon your request it will be rewarded with a treat. If your dog does not obey your command then you will not give it a treat.
Why is your dog barking? This is one of the first questions you must ask yourself. When you know why your dog is barking you can address the problem more effectively. Is your dog just bored? Do you have a lonely dog? Are your neighbors teasing it while he is outside? Find out the reason and then address that reason.
It's important that you assign your dog a command for when you want it to stop barking. For example, you could say “No Bark”. Make sure that you assign your dog a certain behaviour to go along with the command, also. You may want your dog to sit or go lay down upon your command.
The third tip is to crate train your dog. The crate can be used to put your dog in if he doesn’t obey your command. This is a great way to hadle things if your dog barks at people who come to the door. Howver this isn.
The forth tip is to decide how you want your dog to really respond. Many people do not like it when their dog barks at someone who comes to the door. But how bad really is that? Your dog is simply trying to warn you. A good idea is to let your dog bark a few times and then teach it how you want it to respond from there. For example, have your dog bark three times and come get you to let you know someone is at the door.
The fifth tip is to use a stop barking collar if nothing else seems to work. Shock collars are not as bad as most people think they are because you do have some control over the amount of shock. Keep in mind that there are other types of collars you can use besides a shock collar.
Teaching your dog how to stop barking isn’t going to be easy. But now is the time to get started before your dogs barking becomes a real problem. So, put a few of these stop dog barking techniques to good use before things do get worse.
