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Originally Posted by raindrop  you might find telling him off for barking is giving him attention. Sky would rather have attention from me telling her off than not have any attention. What i did with her was to ignore the barking and leave the room if i'm there. I wont go in the room (or let her out of her crate if thats where she is) until i can count to 10 while she's quiet. She seems to have stopped barking most of the time now. |
I do agree that sometimes ignoring works. But with some dogs... they won't stop! And ignoring doesn't necessarily always work because then you can never correct the behavior. But I totally think it all depends on the situation and sometimes ignoring is the perfect solution.
