I am big on confinement training. I have a boy who wants ALL my attention when I'm home. He is friendly but if Im talking on the phone, or to a person standing up, he barks at me non-stop until I give him attention. This is just not acceptable behavior. I have started putting him in a gated room where he can see me and hear me, but cannot get to me. He sits quietly now and stares at me. I leave him there for 5 mins, then let him back out. If he does it again, I calmly w/o stopping talking to the person, pick him back up and put him back in confinement for another 5 mins to calm down.
This has helped SOOO much, you have no idea. Its literally sanity changing when you are busy and talking to 5 people in your house and the dog is barking and everyone is trying to talk over him. This works great. Make sure where you put him you can see him so you know he's not peeing there.
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