How to stop my silky terrier from incessant barking?
One way to stop your dog from barking is, paradoxically, to teach your dog to bark! This training serves three purposes: first, it means you will be giving your dog positive attention for a certain period every day while you are training him to bark. Many dogs bark to get attention, and keep barking because the negative attention they get is still preferable to no attention at all. when you teach your dog to “speak”, you follow up his learning that skill by teaching him to “hush”). By rewarding your dog when he barks because you asked him to, you are also teaching him that he should bark when you say so. (It’s a slight distinction to us, but it means something to the dog). If he barks when you don’t tell him to, he hasn’t learned the rules of the game yet. So first, teach him to bark. Then teach him to be quiet. If you seriously work with your dog for two weeks and you’re still having problems getting him to speak and hush, your dog may have an unusual problem. Either there’s a big dom
