Let's see.....I only get barked at if I'm late at meal time or late for walk time or when I am being used as a playmate to shake the toy so she can attack and bite at it....or when I don't throw the ball quite as fast as she would like. Of course all this is fun for both of us. If I want her to stop I can tell her "no more" and that is the end of it. I don't know what I would do if she stopped being a bossy, tenacious little cuddle bug.