Training the Non-Biting Dog To Bark at the Door By I am often asked by new customers (that do not want to do bite work with their dog) how to teach their dog to be more protective. Basically they want a dog to bark and let strangers know that there is a dog present. When you stop and think about it, that's all that 99.9% of the people that have protection dogs need. I always tell people, if obedience training obedience training you have an intruder that comes through a barking German Shepherd - you need to SHOOT THEM!!! To begin with, I think that people who want to do this bark training still need to understand something about the drives of protection training, even if it's only the basics. So read the article I wrote on the subject after you finish with this article. Some dogs (because of their genes or temperament) are never going to be able to do any dog health care obedience training type of protection training. They totally lack defensive drive. The only thing that they can be taught to do is to bark on command. We will discuss this method first. Other dogs have the genetic background to do bite work but the owners do not wish to take the dogs through bite development. We will discuss these dogs second. Dogs Who Have No Defensive Drive: There are several ways to teach a dog to bark for a treat (or a small dog breeds obedience training favorite toy), the simplest is in your kitchen or bark yard. The most important thing in this training is to be consistent with the choice of words you use for "bark" and to praise with the first bark or noise. I use the German word "GEBLOUT." Not many people know what Geblout means and it sounds better than to say, "SPEAK Fido or BARK Fido." It's also important to sound enthusiastic when trying to get the dog to "bark". puppy names obedience training In other words, make