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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. |
One of they most effective ways to deal with any unwanted behaviour in dogs is to ignore it.
Once you ignore it and there is a breath between the barks you reward that breath and grow the silence from there.
Feed with attention or food that which you want ingnore that which you do not.
JL