How do you decrease the amount your dog barks?

We just got a puppy and it is starting to bark all the time. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions without spending hundreds of dollars to decrease the amount of barking.

Either by kicking it...well not recommended.Or using a shock collar. This will help train it not to bark. everytime it barkes it will get shocked. So eventually it'll stop because it does not want to get shocked. One or the other.

give it alot of peanut butter. yayhe'll be like busy licking it and just chewing it

get a big ass shock collar

They sell shock collars but I think they are cruel.

Get a squirt gun and shoot him with water when he barks. Try not to let him see that you are the one doing it.

shock collars but they dont always work and they are mean. Try bopping him on the nose anytime he does it, but not to hard you dont want him to hate you.

Make sure you don't stop him from barking when you WANT him to bark, as in when someone is outside your house. To stop a dog from barking, you have to be the ALPHA. Everytime the dog starts, gently place your hand over the loose skin of its neck and grasp. Hold the dogs head and neck to the gound until it stops struggling. This is what it's mother would do to control it.After awhile, the dog will associate this control responce to the barking and will stop. You must, and I mean MUST be consistant with a dog if you want it to behave.Any violence to the dog will teach it to be afraid of you and that is the last thing you want from "womans/mans best friend". Don't strike it or squirt it or kick it please, this is a member of your family.Good Luck!!

There is a spray sold at pet stores that is sour apple or some flavor that is not liked by dogs.When my dog was younger, we used it on him each time he barked for 'no reason'. Maybe he had one and we just did not know(6th sense). Either way, it helped a little. 11 years later, he still barks at 'nothing' and at 'everything'. I have considered getting him put on prozac so he can calm the f down.:)Seriously, try the spray or ask the people at the pet store.Good Luck!

give him a tranquilizer... Lol just kidding, i don't think there's really nothing you can do except for option #1.

Just yell louder than he can bark. The neighbours will love it I'm sure.

give it a big stuffed animal to curl up with. He is probably missing his siblings...if this doesn't work at all...get a spray bottle and squirt him with a little bit of cold water on his nose when he starts to bark.

GIVE YOUR DOG MORE ATTENTION

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I have a yorkie. He used to bark at the littlest noise. I got a bark collar. Just few times wearing it stop the barking. Now all I have say is "Do you want the bark collar" and he know what it means and stops barking. It worked for me...

If you prefer not to use the shock collar, maybe try making a loud noise everytime he barks. Use coins in a can, or something to that effect. When he barks, shake the can and say "No" or "No Barking." Eventually the puppy should just respond to the word no. Whatever you do, don't say no, and your puppy's name in the same sentence, then he may associate his name with doing something wrong. My hubby and I used this method on our cats to teach them not to scratch the couch, and on our dog we can just say hush and she quits barking. Good luck!

Get a bark collor.

Squirt gun will do the trick much cheaper than shock collar. You must be consistent and just squirt every time he barks it won't take long for him to stop.

If you decide to go with the shock collar... make sure you put it on nice and snug.... reason for that is most shock collars only work on the vocal cords, and as soon as the dog figures out to move the collar to the side it will start barking again( and it only takes most dogs less than a week to figure it out).

i read in a dog magazine to put change in a can-and everytime he starts to bark-rattle the can loudly-so he associates the noise when barking-guess its suppose to work