Doggy Mentor

I got out of bed with dog barking on the brain this morning. I guess that is because last night I angrily  laid awake listening to my neighbor’s pack of unruly dogs barking at coyotes throughout the night. This of course allowed me lots of time to do nothing but think about all the nearby dogs with various types of serious barking problems. It became apparent that my normally peaceful neighborhood,  has more than its share of occasional dog barking madness.

Below I have listed several of the very common reasons your dog may have a problem with excessive barking behavior . You will have some work to do with your dog to correct the problem if he suffers from this behavior-actually I think we suffer a lot more from the barking than they do. It is too bad, but this barking problem isn’t going away without some work by you.

• One very common reason that a dog will start barking is when it sees another dog or a stranger somewhere within its visual range.This behavior is easy to understand, because it is very natural for a dog to want to protect its family and territory from others. This becomes problem barking  when a dog just won’t stop the barking even after it has made its point. He gets a form of positive reinforcement when the other dog or human has moved away because in his mind he has scared the dog or person away.

• Many times the problems start when dogs start having a long-distance conversation with other neighborhood dogs that just goes on way too long.  If your dog likes to engage in this type of excessive barking, you can train him to cut it out. The issue of problem dog barking should be corrected, because it affects your neighbors as well as you.

• Stressed out and insecure dogs are likely to bark for insignificant reasons. Because they just aren’t feeling secure in their surroundings they will bark out of nervousness. Unless they are with their masters, this kind of dog barking problem can happen throughout the day or night. My good friend’s dog was such a nervous Nellie that it would bark if a leaf fell down form a nearby tree. Obviously this dog was the epitome of nervousness. It doesn’t take a big leap of imagination to realize that this dog barked all the time-for nothing.

• A dog that is really lonely and bored may just start barking out of frustration-he wants to tell the whole world all about it.  Dogs that are left all alone most of the time without attention and interaction are the obvious candidates for this barking problem.

• Sometimes a dog just wants your attention, and will continue to bark at you until he gets it-he doesn’t care if you are busy doing something else. A dog that has respect for his master and sees him as the Alpha dog, wouldn’t be doing this. Unfortunately if you give in to this barking, you are in a way training your dog to boss you around. I have been through this with my Lab-she liked  to bark at me when she was bored and wanted to play-she was trying to train me, and did a  good job of it too-until I learned better and stopped responding.

Try out these tips, and it should help you control your dog’s barking excessively problems. Check out my full review of what I consider to be the best dog obedience training program on the internet. Secrets to Dog Training Review

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