Help! Very vocal puppy!

[HareAndBear]

This is new to me. Puppy (5 months) is very talkative. She barks all the time to communicate. Sometimes she has a point (it's time to eat, finished meal and wants to let out of crate, needs loo - all fair enough), but other times it's just annoying. Yesterday she was barking at something she wanted on shelf, or she barks if you're going out without her.

After tending to genuine needs, how would you respond to/not respond to the demanding barking? I don't want to reinforce, do I just ignore?

Teach her ‘quiet’. This is how I would do it and have done for my barkers but I’m no way a trainer of any description so may not work for you!

When she starts barking have a suuuuper high reward treat (cheese, sliced hotdog, fish whatever she likes) and say quiet! Not shouty at all just calmly. As soon as she stops barking (even if it takes a little bit) treat immediately and praise tons. Every time she barks say quiet! Reward and praise. Try not to say it constantly when she’s barking, just get her attention with the treat and say it and AS SOON as she does stop reward and praise.

She might get it after a few goes or it might take a few days. Keep going with it. Eventually if you keep going with it you should be able to just say quiet and she’ll stop. But keep reinforcing every day in short bursts with treats and she should get it.

Thanks @Ostryga I have some hot dogs, will give that a go.

What breed is she?

Terrier

Terriers are typically very vocal dogs so a lot of this will be normal for her.

I have a noisy breed and what I've found is that (weirdly) it works to teach them to 'speak' before you teach them 'quiet'. So when she barks for attention, attach a command to it (we use "speak!") and then reward. Eventually you'll be able to get her to bark on command.

Then you can teach the quiet command. Ask her to 'speak', wait until she stops, then say 'quiet' and reward.

I had this with my pup who is now 7 months. If you know there's nothing she wants and it's just for attention then ignore it completely. If my pup started barking I'd get my phone out amd read something or play a game then when she's quiet for a few seconds I'd say quiet and reward but make sure she's quiet for a few seconds before rewarding, else you'll be rewarding the bark. If its something she wants such as food, try wait for that quiet moment before giving into her else she'll use this everytime she wants something. Even turn ypur back on her until shes quiet. Try using a toy, if she barks, she doesn't get it, then when quiet she gets it. Some dogs are naturally vocal, such as mine so stopping them completely is probably not possible but reducing it is. I also taught my pup to 'speak' which helps because if I don't ask, she shouldn't be barking. Her barking has now turned into very slight, quiet whines now and then but I'll take that over constant barking.

Thanks @Vanillacupcake33 I'm glad your pup is getting better!