Why Dogs Bark And Curbing Excessive Barking

It’s a doggone life without the gift of speech. So the next best thing that creatures with different vocal capacities like dogs do, for example, is bark. Or whine and howl. And sometimes, quite like the scene from Dr Doolittle, they just might get into the mood to do it all at once if there is a long doggy speech to deliver! The only way dogs communicate – and, like all of God’s creatures, communicate they must, with humans and among themselves – is through quite a few variations from the whole repertoire of sounds like yelping, barking, whining, howling or growling. While most everybody with dogs for pets understands a few reasons for their barking – the most common one being barking at danger or alarm barking, dogs are not strangers to overdoing it! They will keep at it so excessively at times that it no longer remains a mere form of communication, but instead becomes an endless nuisance to all and sundry. Once you have determined that all the ruckus is in excess of every sentiment it is otherwise known to convey, you need to establish the real reason/s for the excesses, only after which can you try to curb it.

Tips To Curb Excessive Barking In Dogs 

When your dog gets into barking fits far more frequently and incessantly than there is reason to, you will know that you have an excessive barker on your hands. Controlling that behavior is going to be no mean feat! Following are some of the commonly known types of dog barking:

Once you find out just why your dog is getting an urge to make itself compulsively heard, you can start putting the checks in place. The best way is to remove all the known triggers. Care must be taken not to encourage problematic barking, even unwittingly! Ultimately, it is always good to keep your dog occupied with better things to do than barking. 

If none of these methods work, and your dog continues to bark inexplicably, it is time for a visit to the vet or trainer for a more in-depth diagnosis.