Keeping of dogs in city apartments – an everyday occurrence, but very often it is accompanied by such problem as bark. Dogs are not able to bark quietly, for them it is a way of communication and an opportunity to warn the uninvited guest that his attempt to get into the house did not remain unnoticed. Therefore loudly barking dogs, especially at night, are capable to rouse all neighbors. But even congenital habits can be corrected by means of education.
Instruction
1. First of all, buying to the apartment a dog as the partner, pay attention to features of breed. Loud modulating bark is characteristic of those breeds which initially intended for protection and hunting. Therefore sheep-dogs, Dobermann terriers and also terriers and dachshunds are famous for "vociferousness" and to calm them when they just try to draw your attention, just silly. And here the English bulldogs, Shar-Peis, St. Bernards, Newfoundland dogs, basset hounds, Labradors, the Neapolitan mastiffs, the German and Danish mastiffs, porcelaines differ in "briefness", endurance and tranquility.
2. Take care of that nervous system of your dog was as it should be. For this purpose you and most should control yourself, to exclude flashes of aggression in communication not only with it, but also with your relatives. The dog has to feel in the house quietly not to begin to bark hysterically in each occasion.
3. As bark – the communication medium, a dog can bark when he hears bark of other dogs or just extraneous noise in the yard or an entrance. Provide a noise isolation in the apartment, the good door can sometimes solve a problem of loud bark even if your dog also will decide to show the vigilance. Besides, protection against extraneous noises will also add tranquility to your pet.
4. But the main way to calm the barking dog – full-time educational employment. It is impossible to forbid to bark at the same time absolutely to a dog, slapping her the newspaper as soon as she gives a vote. Include such team in an arsenal of the commands executed by a dog as "Quietly!". It first can be combined with easy pressing of a mouth or with "shock therapy" - the water spray which is put in action during undesirable bark. To help to understand to a dog that the owner wants from her, the special anti-bark collar can. Its action is based that the sensor reacting to vibration of vocal chords works. At this moment liquid which is not pleasant to any dog – solution with an extract from a citrus begins to be sprayed. In some collars as intimidation electric discharges are used, but such method is not really humane.
5. When to calm the barking dog operation on vocal chords does not work well, made in other ways. As a result the loudness of bark of a dog can be considerable is reduced. Usually such operations make in nurseries where breed a large number of dogs and individual approach to pets is excluded. But as in case of contents in the apartment such approach is supposed, it is better to use after all other listed methods to calm a dog.