In fact, barking is dog's nature, but some dogs make more noise than others. If you have a dog that seems to be never able to keep quite, then try the following approaches:
1. More exercise: Adequate exercise will consume the dog’s energy. After playing or running for the whole day, the dog would rather sleep well than bark loudly.
2. Bite bones: If there's something to block the dog's mouth, it will not have time to bark. The more difficult to bite the more challenging it is. So next time when you prepare to go out, you can throw toys which it likes to bite, and let it spends its time by itself.
3. Use its brain: If the dog won’t bark when it has things to do, then next time before you go out, you can knead its favorite toys to stay your odor on it. When the dog doesn’t see its owner, it would like to spend more time looking for the owner’s odor on toys and forget to bark at random.
4. Make noises: For those more nervous dogs, they will bark if only they have heard any noise. If you can not completely get rid of noises around you, you may create some noises to interfere it. For example, when the postman comes by, you can open the noisy vacuum cleaner to confuse the dog's hearing.
5. Respond to it: sometimes the dog barks only in order to give a certain message to the owner. If the owner responds properly and praise it, the dog will naturally shut up when it understands it has finished the task!
6. Reward it: If the dog is unwilling to shut up, the owner should immediately reprimand it by the firm tone: "Quiet!" When the dog doesn’t bark, the owner can give some snakes or praise to it, in order to let the dog know that the obedience and keeping quiet can receive the master’s favor and reward.
7. Don’t pay attention to it: Some dogs will shut up, just like humans will lose energy to continue long-winded speech when there are no audiences. If they always keep barking, you may turn to leave; most of the dogs will be sensitive to shut up. Similarly, when it no longer barks, you can give it praise or reward.
8. Put out their enthusiasms: squirt gun can also stop the dog from barking. When it keeps barking ceaselessly, the owner should first reprimand it, and if it doesn’t listen to the warning, you may spray it to keep quiet by squirt gun.
