if your dog's barking all the time I understand it can be incredibly frustrating but it doesn't need to be because it's a behavior that you can fix really quickly and I'm going to show you exactly how in this video now when it comes to barking the number one reason it happens in 95 of problem barking cases I work on is that the owners have taught the dog to bark when they don't want them to now I know that sounds crazy and although they did teach them to do it they taught them to do it accidentally
so many people hear their dog bark and then ask them what's up they hear them bark and tell them everything's okay even hear the bar can tell them not to it makes sense for them to do any of those things if the dog was a human that understood our language but they don't from the dog's perspective all of those things the human did actually rewarded the dog for barking it rewarded it with attention it rewarded it with physical praise so guess what the dog will bark more and if the dog gets the same reaction the
dog will bark more each time and round and round we go in this cycle of accidentally reinforcing The Barking so now you know the mistakes that you may have accidentally been making and you're not going to make that mistake again the next thing you have to ask yourself is can you communicate to your dog that they're doing something wrong and can you do so in a way that a they understand but B they actually listen to because that's where the magic happens and to do that I call this an empowered verbal correction you want to
be able to communicate to your dog to be quiet and I highly recommend that you use a shush or a quiet command and that is going to be a command that lets them know that they are being too loud and you want them to be quiet but if they don't understand what that means how is that fair to your dog you have to communicate to them what it actually means and the way in which we do that is by gently teaching an empowered correction now I know this can all feel overwhelming trying to understand what
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need it's completely free of charge no strings attached the link will be in the description below and you can get started straight away so now you know the mistakes that you need to avoid that may have probably created The Barking in the first place and you also know what you should be doing to fix it the third thing that you have to understand if you want to be happy with your dog is to have realistic expectations of them and this is going to most likely come down to having realistic expectations of the breed that you
have now Labradors fit somewhere in the middle if you accidentally reinforce it and don't know how to communicate to them that they need to stop they will be quite barky dogs however if you have something like a German Shepherd they are going to most likely be very barky dogs so it's going to be much more of a challenge for a German Shepherd however if you have something like a greyhound it's going to be much easier so if barking is a real problem for you it absolutely should be the kind of thing that you're considering when
choosing the perfect breed for you
