Many owners of dogs suffer for the reason that their pets have a bad habit in vain to bark at passersby, foreign dogs, cyclists or even just at a door in the apartment or in the house. Unfortunately, not all dogs differ in appeasable character. Some of them like to bark loudly at appearance of guests, without looking at the same time at hails and the teams of the owner. But to disaccustom a dog to bark sometimes happens very much and very not easy.
- If you want to disaccustom dogwith to bark on guests, try the following method: lay a dog on the habitual place in the apartment or in the house, and then put on her a long lead. Ask any of house several times in a row to approach to the entrance door, publishing at the same time as much as possible noise. When the dog hears noise about an entrance door and will begin is disturbing to bark, it is necessary to set on her, for example, having asked: "Who is it? Strangers?". The dog will begin to bark more loudly, but it is not necessary to straighten out her. And here after the person will enter the room, it is necessary to straighten out sharply a dog and to tell strictly: "Faugh!", "It is impossible!". Remember that if you straighten out a dog smoothly, it is not sharp – the effect will practically not be.
- At the next stage ask the guests not familiar to a dog, to come serially into the room or into the apartment in a short period of time, repeating the same actions. Usually several sessions of such training happen enough in order that the dog was disaccustomed to bark in vain.
- Dogs of such breeds as spitz-dog or fox terrier, very much like to rush on strangers and to grab them for edges of clothes or legs. In this case training by means of a lead will help – it is necessary to agree with people, foreign to a dog, in advance, and as soon as they come into the room, straighten out a dog, at the same time giving commands: "To me!", "to Sit!".
- Many dogs begin to howl and bark loudly after some stay at home. Such behavior of a dog becomes frequent the reason of complaints of neighbors. In this case one more method of a training with a cord or a lead will help: it is necessary to seat a dog into place, having carried out at the same time a cord or conductings to other room – so remote from a dog that she did not guess the person who is there. Ask the assistant to be closed in the room with a cord or a lead to straighten out a dog after you simulate leaving the apartment (loudly stamping on a ladder). Straightening out a cord, the assistant has to give to a dog the commands "It Is Impossible!" and "Place!".