Training the Non-Biting Dog To Bark at the Door By Ed Frawley I am often asked by new customers (that do not want to do bite work with their dog) how to teach their dog to be more protective. Basically they want a dog to bark and let strangers know that there is a dog present. When you stop and think about it, that's all that 99.9% of the people that have protection dogs need. I always tell people, if you have an intruder that comes through a barking German Shepherd - you need to SHOOT THEM!!! To begin with, I think that people who want to do this dog training obedience dog training obedience bark training still need to understand something about the drives of protection training, even if it's only the basics. So read the article I wrote on the subject after you finish with this article. Some dogs (because of their genes or temperament) are never going to be able to do any type of protection training. They totally lack defensive drive. The only thing that they can be taught to do is to bark on command. We will discuss this method first. Other dogs have the genetic background to do bite work but the owners do not wish to take the dogs through bite development. We will discuss puppy mills dog training obedience these dogs second. Dogs Who Have No Defensive Drive: There are several ways to teach a dog to bark for a treat (or a favorite toy), the simplest is in your kitchen or bark yard. The most important thing in this training is to be consistent with the choice of words you use for "bark" and to praise with the first bark or noise. I use the German word "GEBLOUT." Not many people know what Geblout means and it sounds better than to say, "SPEAK Fido or BARK Fido." It's also important to sound enthusiastic when trying to get the dog to "bark". In other words, make a game hunting dog training supply dog training obedience out of it. Don't think that because the purpose of this training is to eventually have the dog bark at the door that you must sound serious. The hardest part of this training is to initially get the dog to understand what you want it to do - which is bark on command. It seems that once the light bulb goes off in their head they enjoy the game (some like it a little too much.) Some dogs are not natural barkers. Especially if you have made an effort to control unwanted barking. One of the best ways I have found to get a dog started in working dog trainers in south dakota dog training obedience the bark
