How to Resolve Barking Issues

Video Transcript

"To resolve barking issues for your dog, first you need to determine, why is your dog barking? If the dog is guarding, that's a good thing, and you need to go to the window or the door, where your dog is alerting you, that there is someone outside. Acknowledge the fact that they're barking. Good girl for barking, or good boy, and then redirect them. Call them off, to do something else, go to a different area. If they continue to bark at that location, then it might be a management thing, where you deny them access to that window, where they seem to enjoy alerting so much. Another possibility and a common thing for dogs, is when they're bored, they'll bark for attention. They bark, you look at them. You give them attention, even if it's to say no, the dog is being rewarded, for that bark, so the best way, is to deny them your attention, because that's what they're after, and remember, always to give them attention, when they're not barking, when they're being quiet. That's the other side of it, that we often forget, so determine why your dog is barking, and then address that issue, as kindly, and as reasonably as possible, remembering to keep the things that you want, for example, barking at people who have entered your yard. Speak, speak. Lady, speak. Speak, speak. Speak, there you go."