My dogs barking

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My dogs bark. They only bark when people go past the house. Or if people are standing outside the house winding them up. I know this as I have cameras.

My neighbours have complained. They complained last week about this but my dog was out with me so it can’t have been my dog.

My dogs don’t bark late at night as I have kids and they’re asleep. I’m a single parent so they’re never alone at night as I’m here with the children.

My dogs are literally never left for more than a few hours due to the nature of my job. They don’t have separation anxiety. They aren’t bored. They are extremely well trained. They just bark when they can see or hear people go by the house.

I’m getting constantly nagged at and was previously reported for this. The man from the council said probably malicious and not to worry. That was months and months ago.

Are my dogs expected to never ever bark? Surely, surely some barking is not unreasonable? I can’t control who walks past and when.

From my cameras I know today has been a particularly busy day on out street though.

4 ddogs here. Ndn says he never hears them. Youngest barks when our front door opens until she sees it's one of us. Split second. 1 barks to order!! Husky never utters a sound unless we see another husky!! And 1 very very rarely.
My dgm had a psycho mongrel that hurlded himself at the window at anyone passing. Vowed no ddog of mine would bark!!

Leave your curtains or blind closed when you're not at home so your dog can't see out and people can't see in to wind it up.
Or leave the dog in another room where it can't see out and others can't see in, such as the kitchen.
When you're at home, you need to train it not to bark when it starts barking.
I have dogs and they know not to bark at stray leaves etc passing by.
It can be done, it just needs patience and firm training on your part.

Gotta love Mumsnet, children shrieking in the street at all hours is perfectly acceptable and how dare anyone complain, but a dog barking every now and again is completely unacceptable and it's obviously badly trained.

Unless your neighbours never make any noise that disturbs you, I would let them complain. Particularly as they've complained about your dog barking when it wasn't even in the house.

Ime removing the ddog from the barking trigger is all that is needed... Obviously you aren't there when the passers by are exciting him so practice when you are home.. We lived backed into a carpark. Lots of people and cars...
Whenever ddog barked in the garden I shouted of her in the house.. Every time..
She soon clicked if she wanted to stay out she had to stfu!!
Has your ddog a seat by the window? Barking =removed from his perch...
Stfu? Let him back on. Bet it won't take long op.. Habit broken he will be quiet even when you aren't there to 'check' him.

Just put your dog in a back room, it seems an easy solution. I live on a very quiet road. There is a school a couple of roads away so a few dc walk past twice a day. Apart from that I would imagine maybe a couple of people walk past every hour. If you live on a road where someone walks past every few minutes it would be really awful for your neighbour. The people winding dogs up deliberately, do you live in a bit of a rough area?

Please do NOT follow anything from 'Dogs Behaving Very Badly' the trainer on there holds no real qualification (a non accredited self certified 'yes ive trained for x years and x thousand dogs, here's my annual 75 quid fee to buy my title 'master dog trainer') and many of his methods are inefficient and clumsy at best, downright dangerous at worst.

As I said in the very first response..

Frosted film over your windows - if you can't keep the dog out of that room, this will cut out the view.

Most of the time dogs bark at passers by because:

They are startled or aroused by the sight/movement of a person
They have learned that if they bark, the person goes away
Barking is enjoyable and self-reinforcing even if the person doesn't go away
The continued cycle of view of movement, bark, person goes away, repeat, is increasing stress levels which increases the likelyhood of reactivity and decreases the chances of them relaxing and resting.

Cut out the view and you will see an almost immediate reduction in barking.

Yabu
Close your curtains and then they can’t see People outside …

A dog barking now and again is one thing. The dogs in my street go on for hours and I mean hours. NDN dog barks and growls at any visitors to my home. Distressing for my visitors. Most dog owners, not all seem to be deaf. It wears you down mentally and you dread going out the door. Thats the reality. Your nerves are in tatters,because you are mentally preparing each time you go out for the dog to start. I don't know why so many owners let their dogs out at the front of their home when they behave like this. Why can't they keep them inside?

Are you my neighbour? We can’t go out the back garden because her dog barks constantly at us even if we’re just putting the washing out. I can’t sit out the back because he constantly barks. It’s annoying as hell. I love dogs and have a big dog that very rarely barks. I work shifts and the dog disturbs my sleep. Shut your dog up people, it’s not Fair having to listening to yap yap all bloody day.

They are extremely well trained. They just bark when they can see or hear people go by the house.

If they bark every time they see or hear someone go past the house' they are not extremely well trained at all.

I have a dog.

No way on earth would I let her bark at every person passing the house.

That would be on/off near constant barking all day.

Aside from the obvious annoyance, that level of constant agitation surely isn’t good for the dog?

If nothing else, I’d get window film and start training for the dog’s sake, they don’t sound at all relaxed and happy in their home to be going crazy and barking multiple times a day because someone dared walk past.

Our dog ISA breed known to bark a lot. I was very reluctant to go for that breed for that reason. I feed, when we picked them up, both mum and dad were barking like mad.

I was therefore really pleased when they didn't show signs of being a barking dog...until they turned 1 and the barking started. We dealt with it immediately. Dogs bark because they are anxious first, then as a learnt reactive behaviour. When outs started to bark, we immediately asked them back inside if in the garden, or another room. Gave them a cuddle and talked to them gently saying there was no need for barking. This with a reward.

We did this every time they did their first bark. 3 months later and barking totally stopped. They will now start barking in late afternoons in the garden. All we need to do is call them back in immediately and it stops, so never more than a few seconds.

Next door dog started barking around the sane time. They never really dealt with but to tell it to pack it in after 5 or 10mns. No surprise, barking has increased and they are now totally unresponsive to commands.

You didn't deal with it appropriately when it started. It will now been much harder to tackle, but you did miss the trick and failed to train properly at the right time.

Are they barking every morning time someone passes? How frequently? If it's 4 or 5 times a day then it's ok, 4 or 5 times an hour isn't acceptable