Interesting article about training your dog to modify his/her behavior through environmental means. I've been telling people to do this for a while and recently found an article where they gave it a name: Behavior Adjustment Training. In a nut shell, you basically put a dog in a situation where he/she would normally react badly to a stimulus, then take away the stimulus only when the dog stops reacting or the reaction lessons. For example, if a dog barks at a person, instead of leaving with the dog or the person leaving, you wait until the dog stops barking before the person (or you) leave. Where previously, the dog barked and the person left, now when the dog stops barking or doesn't bark at all,  the person leaves.

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Barking: Entertainment or Nuisance?

Salutations!
Do you ever have one of those days where your dog is barking as if his life depended on it, over and over, all day and all night? Does he (or she) bark at every leaf that falls in the yard, or at every person that walks by?

If you do, or have had one in the past, then you know what I'm talking about. That kind of barking goes beyond the normal "there's someone at the door", "I'm so  happy to see you!", "Hey I want to go over there and see that gal down the street!" kind of barking. Dogs that bark like this do so for three main reasons.