A Shockingly Simple Way to Stop a Dog From Barking

Getting your dog to stop barking is one of the most common causes of an owner bringing a dog to obedience training, second only to housebreaking. But before you can even think about getting your dog to stop barking for any reason, you have to know a few simple but important facts. Once you understand these facts, getting them to stop barking should be a breeze...

Expecting your dog to stop barking altogether is not a realistic expectation. Barking is a natural instinct in the dog and cannot be completely silenced. You can, however, teach them a trigger word which you can use to teach the dog to bark on command. This will surprise you as to how much the dog will start to reduce the crazy urge to randomly bark without getting the command. You can use the trigger word "speak", as it is an easy, one-syllable word that the puppy can understand.

After that, you can move on to trying to figure out how to actually stop the dog from barking when you don't want them to, or they are not supposed to. As you may know, the dog is barking for a reason, even if that reason isn't obvious to you.

Whatever it may be... alerting to danger, or trying to get your attention to something they seem interesting, you have to teach the dog that whatever it is making them bark is OK. If you completely remove the cause of the barking from that situation, that's even better.

By Cary Benjamin
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