My dog barks every time the door bells rings or somebody knocks on the
door. Does anybody have any advice on what to do to stop him from
barking?

"k.ridl" wrote in message
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My dog barks every time the door bells rings or somebody knocks on the
door. Does anybody have any advice on what to do to stop him from
barking?

Give him something else to do when ever the door bell rings. Come to the
door and sit is always a good one. You can train it by having an
'accomplice' stand outside, ring the bell. Don't let them in until you can
get your dog to sit. You may have to start with just getting them to walk to
the door, sit, stay, *then* doorbell rings. You may also, depending on the
dog have to vary the 'reward' you give him. Some dogs, seeing the new person
is the reward, others need a little more.
Do this a dozen or so times, and he should start to get the idea. You have
to be consistent though, and make sure that you don't open the door until
you have him under complete control.

Dale

k.ridl wrote:
My dog barks every time the door bells rings or somebody knocks on the
door. Does anybody have any advice on what to do to stop him from
barking?

You can train active behavior that's incompatible with barking.

One we used on Oppie when he was going to have throat surgery and
would not be "allowed" to bark for six weeks afterwards was this:

Being a retriever, it was very easy (a long time ago) to train
him to "get the xxx!" (sock, in his case), and he doesn't bark
when he's carrying a sock in his mouth. So whenever he was
likely to bark (us arriving home, dinner time, getting ready for
a walk), we'd tell him to "get the sock" and then reward him for
bringing it to us, and then give it right back to him.

You might train your dog to retrieve a sock/toy and then sit, and
after that is well established, train him to do so when the
"command" is the doorbell or a knock on the door.

FurPaw

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