Comments: Dog barking: How to deal with an incessantly barking dog

“I will surely check what sonia said, it is more useful for me as my neighbor's dog barks heavily in the night......

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“If a dog is barking nonstop, then he may have some sort of medical problem or be in pain. The first step would be to take him to the vet to make sure that everything is fine.

” — Jessica , May 31 2009

“i have 1 whippet her sister died of cancer,she was having a bit of howl and barking when we where out so we decided to get her a freind ,so i got an ex racing greyhound giving she a very soft and loving lass.but now when we are out bella the greyhound is barking aswell.when we are in you never hear them .iam only hoping she will get use to it with dixie when we are out ,their seem to get on fine.we have only had her 2 weeks .” — lydsflids, Apr 26 2009

“When my neighbors dog barked I went to the back of my yard and talked to it gently. Stood there for a few minutes quietly then I left. After 4 times once a day I then gave it a treat if it stoped barking. After 7 days I only called it's name and told it shushhh with a treat. Honestly, the dog never barked again. It was lonely and now had a friend.” — ndsheewas, Apr 23 2009

“If you dont like t hear a dog barking move some place that there are no dogs allowed by law and have your ears filled with wax. respectfully Scott R.” — srudinsky, Feb 25 2009

“you are truely right dogwhisper. it's the owners who should train their dogs not to bark. at all cost otherwise they shouldn't have a dog in the first place if they can't afford to train it.” — joesmoe1974, Jan 29 2009

“Barking dogs can always cause some friction between neighbors. But what can be just as bad is a person that makes up the complaint simply because they do not like their neighbor or dogs. Over the years I have had to help out numerous clients with this exact problem. The Phantom barking.

Alan Papszycki” — TheSpiritDog, Jan 26 2009

“A story about barking- I promise!

I just want to preface by saying that although you maye hate the barking, you have to give the dog and owners a chance to correct the problem. Until you know all of the circumstances behind a dog's behavior and the owners' response to it, please do not be so quick to judge. Instead, offer to help by popping in to give the little fella a potty break or some play time.

We recently rescued a 4-year-old Beagle/Bassett Hound mix. He was at the shelter for over 14 months, and before that, was an outside dog (horrible) that was given up by his family when they moved (even more horrible). We fell in love with this guy immediately, and after his meeting and getting along well with our female Goldador, we brought him home.

Everything was so hectic in our lives at the time since it was 3 weeks before Christmas and we had just returned from a vacation, but we didn't want him to live in an overcrowded shelter any longer. Because he had never been house trained (he peed on the christmas tree 4 times, right in front of us, the first week we had him!) and since he didn't seem to know what was an appropriate chew toy, we decided to crate him while we were at work and focus on training him when we were home in the evenings and in the mornings before work. It was really hard for us to restrain him since we wanted to trust him, and since we were already spoiled with his new sister who never gets into anything that isn't hers.

Things were hectic, but going well: there was some progress with training and he was bonding with us and his new sister very tightly. Then all of a sudden, we witnessed him having several cluster seizures within a two week time period. As if life around the holidays and with 2 dogs wasn't already busy enough, we were going to the vet and emergency vet a couple times a week. We got a bit lax in training and spoiled our little guy so much. We still crated him, but with the sedation of his new seizure medication (phenobarbital), he was sleeping a lot and we thought the barking in his crate had subsided. Well, our beagle did not want to be crated or even left alone at all, so once the phenobarb levels evened out a bit and he became his old self again, he wined and barked after being put in his crate. The barking would only last about 5 minutes, but our neighbor complained. Her bedroom shares a wall with the room we crated him in. So we moved him to another room. We offered to get her a sound machine to drown out any neighbor noise (which I've always required once I started living in an apartment- I can't stand noise or to be woken up once asleep!)

Now we are training him not to bark in his kennel with the "QUIET!" command (which is so hard!). But he IS a hound dog, so now the barking is replaced by whining and howling, which are just as bad. And still, outside at any time of day, once he starts tracking a scent, he barks and howls like crazy without responding to our commands. But we are just going to stick with the training and hope to make our apartment a little more peaceful. I just wish our neighbor and her dogs (everyone in our building has at least one dog) would be a little more understanding of the situation and maybe offer some sympathy, training advice or a little of her time to comfort him. Unfortunately, people are so quick to judge and blame instead of trying something to help.” — colleenmcmic..., Jan 21 2009

“The person who owns the dog knows it is barking constantly. They are just too lazy to do anything about it. When you confront them about it they always say I never knew the dog was barking although they are at home with the dog. The police should be called and let them handle it. I have parked in front of neighbors homes and have honked my car horn until they come out and see why I am honking the car horn. Then I tell them that this is similar to their precious dog barking its head off for hours on end. People are so dishonest and self centered about their obnoxious pets. Dog training, electric shock collars, and muzzles work, but owners should address and train their dogs. ” — dogwhisper, Jan 19 2009

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