Does your dog or even worse, your neighbor's dog bark all
the dang time? If so it's pretty easy to reach your whit's
end really quickly.
After a while you really don't care why the little
nincompoops doing it, you just want to make the barking
stop. Does that sound about right to you?
Trust me, I know what you're going through all too well.
How would I know these feelings of frustration so very
intimately?
Simple, my wife got a small Poodle and the little bugger
absolutely would not stay quiet for 10 minutes. I swear, if
an ant walked across the driveway he would carry on for 20
minutes strait. I was just about to lose my marbles with
the little loudspeaker.
Now, please don't get me wrong, I love animals and I
especially love dogs. I don't know about you, but
personally I love well behaved dogs. So, not really
wanting to incur my wife's wrath for suggesting Fido be
relocated several States away just to make the barking
stop, I started researching to find a solution or at least
find some options and find them fast.
Here are a few of the things to stop a dog barking that I
discovered: All the books said "You need to find out why
the dog is barking in the first place". And I'm thinking
yeah, right! I don't care why the little Nimrod's carrying
on, just make it stop.
But I do have to agree with them, there is good barking and
bad barking. So when training your dog it is important to
teach your dog the difference between nuisance barking and
good barking (like if it's 2 am and I'm snoring keep
quiet, but if you see a guy with a mask and a sack, Bark!).
As it turns out (go figure) there is actually a lot of
different kinds of barking, there's reactive, territorial,
separation anxiety, fear and warning barking. And without
becoming a Sigmund Freud for Animal Planet tm I truthfully
couldn't tell you which was which.
I did find a few things that actually worked really well.
What the heck it only took 5 hours of reading & video's and
it cost twice as much as the dog did to buy all those books
to find the one that worked.
But here's one of the tips that it said that worked really
good. Every time the dog barks give it a piece of bacon
with 1/2 a Prozac stuck into it (ok, ok, so that was my
solution and not exactly what the book said, but the dog
liked it!) Just kidding!
No really, what the book actually said was give the dog an
alternate outlet. And because it might actually take me an
hour and a half to watch the TV show 60 Minutes, I'm
thinking, alternate outlet, WHAT! they want me to plug the
little bugger into a wall socket?
Well, turns out I was wrong, they meant every time he
starts yapping give him a toy and shake it around for a
second so he gets the idea to play with it. This way when
the dog starts feeling anxiety, nervousness or separation
it will look for the toy and find comfort in it.
Yes, I found more tips, but I sure hope this one helps, it
worked for me even better than the Prozac and at a buck a
pill that stuff gets kinda spendy after a bit.
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Patrick Shelley is absolutely not a professional dog
trainer. He is simply a guy who had a big problem and
needed a solution fast which he found at=>
http://stopdogbark.tripleyourinfo.com/
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