My spaniel is 14 months old, we've had her since 10 weeks. She was spayed a month ago.
She is generally a lovely dog, curious still puppy like but gentle and happy. She has had lots of training and got her kennel club good citizen silver award. She is good with children and other dogs, generally walks nicely and good recall. Has a good hour walk mostly offlead in the mornings and another walk later in the day which can be 30-45 mins this walk may be more onlead but occasionally is offlead depending on weather or where we walk. She has most meals in puzzle feeders/kong/snuffle mat etc. I work at home during the week and after her morning walk she generally sleeps near me for the day until the kids are home after school. All good.
But - weekends/school holidays when my husband and kids are home she becomes a pain - barks a lot for attention despite having mental and physical stimulation. My husband is getting very stressed with the barking and it does grate on us all. As he isn't home during day he doesn't see what a different calm quiet dog she can be and just sees her as a barky nuisance. What can I do to stop this barking?? She has everything she could want and has lots of toys/chews, variety of walks etc. she is not barking to go out for wee as that would be fine, nor is she barking at door/windows. It is literally barking at me for attention which obviously she can't always have! She does know "quiet" but it doesn't really work in this situation, it is basically impossible to just ignore as it's so shrill and with DH/kids around can't just ignore it as it's stressful.... and she doesn't really do it when it's just me and her so it's not like I can practice it when they aren't around, so what can I do?? Help please!