[mandimarie]

Fiona barks at everything! Anyone that comes to our door, she barks and she does it the entire time we're talking or whatever. I can't get her to be quiet, even after she sees it's alright.

The Schwan man comes twice a month to the door and he even brings treats, she'll snatch them out of his hand, eat it real quick and start barking again.

I don't know what to do, we went to visit family last month and we had to stay at a hotel overnight, we didn't sleep at all, she barked at every little thing.

Any little noise she will growl and bark at. Popcorn popping, electric beaters (I think that's what they're called), accidentaly hitting the computer desk with your knee, things that jingle, like change in your pants pockets, my husband has these cargo pants that have a belt with the metal loops to hook through and I was upstairs folding and putting up clothes, and she would start barking and growling, so I'd go to the door and noone was there, and I'd go back upstairs and put them up, and I realized that everytime I picked them up, she would go off again, even if other clothes would knock against them while I was putting them up in the closet. I could barely hear the jingle, but it would drive her crazy.

Ok, sorry I'm rambling...I love her to death, but this has gotten to be every little thing. And it's not just a bark or two, she goes on and on.
When other dogs are barking outside, I can understand, but not all these other things.

We'll be moving soon and will be going in a couple of weeks to look at houses for a few days, I don't want to put her in a kennel, but I can't leave her in a hotel, no telling what she'd bark at. And it would be too much to bring her to look at the houses with us, we have 2 kids that we are going to have to get in and out of a car.

Do any of you have this problem? And if you do, how do you minimize the barking? It's almost like she just likes to hear herself! I know she is a dog and she will bark, but this is too much!

Sorry this is so long!