
Ask your dog to work for his food, even if that is just performing a simple “sit” command.
This will reinforce your role as the leader.
Nuisance barking is one of the most annoying things your dog can do. Aside from just giving you a headache, it can make your otherwise well mannered dog seem like an untrained, unruly monster. Your neighbors will be annoyed, friends will avoid your house and your dog, you’ll be embarrassed by his noise and his apparent disregard for your insistence that he “please just stop barking!”
With any dog, some barking is normal. Dogs use their bark to alert their families to possible danger, to communicate that they want or need something and sometimes just to get attention. It’s when your dog starts to bark at every little thing or bark incessantly and refuse to stop that it becomes a nuisance behavior that needs to be addressed. Below are a few tips to curb nuisance barking.