Does your dog bark at everything?

Here are some tips to use counter conditioning and desensitization to teach your dog to be less reactive and bark less. It’s important to catch them being good more often than telling them know! If you can be proactive and stay ahead of the barking, you can start to really shaped the way your dog feels about things they normally bark at. If we make a game of it every time, the pool guys come Teddy’s going to start looking forward to it and I won’t need to do all of this to keep him from barking, but in the beginning, you definitely need to do some work. What I’m doing is actually changing Teddy’s underlying emotions from fear to fun.