Advice please to stop our dogs barking at people at our front door?

They're fine once people are in the door, it's just when people approach, they go mental. It scares the crap out of visitors though, and I'm at my wits end..Advice please to stop our dogs barking at people at our front door?
If you're willing to do some work and are determined to train them, start by keeping them on leashes. Take control!





Teach them to sit and stay at the door - at first when it's quiet and there's no one there. Open and close the door yourself twenty times. Tap lightly on it as if someone were knocking. Pick a new command - a word that they're not already immune to - like STOP! or ENOUGH! Every single bark after that command must be corrected. Use a leash tug, try a spray bottle of water in their faces or a squirt of lemon juice in their mouths - find something they just hate. Use a correction word like ';ATT!'; and repeat your quiet command - ';STOP!';





When they do that well, then add distractions. Ask you friends to come over and help you. They'll probably be delighted to help - they probably hate it as much as you do. Practice for at least fifteen minutes straight, every day for a month or two. Have your friend just stand on the stoop at first, then knock lightly, then ring the bell, then pound on the door.





If the doorbell rings unexpectedly, the dogs should be allowed to bark for about fifteen seconds or as long as it takes you to get to the door. Don't hold them in your arms or pet them to ';calm them down'; - that makes them feel like you've got their backs and you approve. Make them sit and stay at the door - jumping and spinning around like nuts is not okay either. Even the most determined yapper will eventually give up if you are consistent.Advice please to stop our dogs barking at people at our front door?
That's what dogs are supposed to do. They are there to protect you and your family.


This is a good thing. Just don't freak and they won't either.
This is an ingrained instinct in dogs. You are all part of the same pack, they are just warning 'the pack' (that's you!) that someone is coming.





I personally encourage my dog to bark when someone approaches the house, it lets people know they can't break in and makes me feel safer.
Call the dog whisperer from TV...he seems to do a great job with things like that...or some pet stores give classes for dogs :) I would try the dog whisperer first, he's cooler!
Your dog should not be allowed to go to the front door. When visitors come, scoop them into the bedroom until they settle down.
get a bark collar from the pet store.and put it on the dog it want take long for the dog to find out its doing and your dogs will stop soon after.
There are shock collars you can get that will shock the dog whenever it barks. It doesn't hurt them, but just reminds them after a while not to bark.
You could try an anti bark collar. Our dogs do this and we are fine with it so long as they stop when we invite the person in. Keeps burgalars at bay.





To fix it, when the dog barks Hold him tightly by his collar and tell him to sit. Praise the sitting even though he really has little choice.


You will need to do this a LOT depending on the age of the dog.





If he is older than 3 you may never stop hime barking and just have to remove him from the house every time he does in order to tell him that you do not allow barking in the house
There is an added benefit to training your dog to bark on command. You can train it to stop on command as well.





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get his/ her voice box removed and that will take care of it if it is a real prob. or smake him in the *** when he dose it and get stern the dog is as good of a dog as the trainer trains the dog.