| Train Your Dog to Stop Barking | | | | You must teach your dog that barking for your |
| Dogs usually bark because they are bored. Dogs | | | | attention doesn't work. If he is unhappy outdoors |
| want a lot of attention and they don't know how to | | | | and he barks and you eventually bring him inside the |
| behave when alone. Unfortunately, we have usually | | | | house, he will learn that barking gets results. If you |
| set this situation up ourselves. You want your dog to | | | | yell at him when he barks, your dog also sees that |
| be happy, so you spoil him: you give your dogs | | | | as reward. your dog thinks, "I'm bored so maybe I |
| treats and pat him whenever you wish. It is entirely | | | | can get my owner to yell at me again." When you |
| normal for you to act this way and entirely normal | | | | yell at your dog it just doesn't work. If you use |
| for your dog to complain when he feels neglected. | | | | negative reinforcement, it can still be useful. |