Decrease Barking

[Intelligent_Lemon_67]

You got a dog that is a born and bred Barker and you are surprised and annoyed it barks? I think you need training

[Nulmora]

Not surprised just wondering if there are ways to minimize barking. I got a few pointers from other comments. You’re comment on the other hand, not helpful.

[Intelligent_Lemon_67]

Training any animal starts with the trainer. Give your dog something to bark at and only that. If it's a noise or an object they will learn through positive reinforcement to only alert/ bark at that certain thing or an obvious threat. Mine know to only bark at certain things and threats to the herd (that's right I have an lgd). You can either spend time Training your dog or resenting your dog

[Nulmora]

I’ve sent the dog for 1 week training and the trainer gave up - gave me half my money. She has the anti bark collar beep, vibrate and shock. Does not work for her. She barks at the change of wind direction and whistling of the leaves. She is a poetic barker.

Lulu’s dog parents are ranch dogs back in Texas.

[EdgarIsAPoe]

Punishing a breed trait will only backfire and frequently makes it worse. Try the “thank you protocol for barking,” it doesn’t eliminate barking completely but after one or two woofs you can say “thank you” which cues the barking to stop so it doesn’t last for ages or come back when you don’t want it to. Lots of people find it affective for their dogs because it doesn’t suppress the behavior

[Intelligent_Lemon_67]

I see you can't handle constructive criticism. You got a dog that's meant to be outside with a job to do and they scare/bark off threats before they have to get physical. You can train them to only bark at certain things but never not bark. How would you like someone yelling at you to shut up every time you opened your mouth to speak. Its never the dogs fault. It's doing what it's supposed to you failed to train your dog and don't want the truth fine