Hello, welcome back to Talking Dogs. I'm Graham Hall, but you can call me the dog father

if you like. Over the last 10 years I've helped train hundreds of dogs and you might

have caught me doing just that on TV's

dogs behaving very badly.

Well now I'm here too.

Hello.

This podcast is the place where I can share my advice and experience to you directly because

the thing is my email inbox is always full of worried dog owners asking very good questions

and I do like to be able to help as many as people as possible.

I'm kind of nice

like that. So thanks for joining me. Let's get going with today's training session.

Barking can be the absolute bane of a dog owner's life, potentially cute in short bursts,

but it can be a real headache when it becomes incessant.

Now I always feel there's a difference between barking for attention and barking to make things go away.

And I had a look at the former in last week's episode.

So today I want to think about the other scenarios where your dog might really be trying to tell you something.

So let's try and get into a dog's head.

Now whether we're talking about barking at the tally or the window or whatever it is,

the point here is, I bark and I bark and I bark and a bark and it goes away. Okay, so let's use the classic dog barking at the postperson example of this. So we've all sort of

seen this one. Postperson Patricia comes walking up the path and you and I know what she does for a living, right? But the dog doesn't. So he then decides to repel the intruder. So he barks and he barks and he barks. And he's fully expecting that he's going to get rid of this person. So what does Patricia do? Well, she obliges a call, she turns on a heel and she runs away. Well, all right, you and I know.

She's not really running away at all. She's getting to the next house. But your dog says,

ah, right, that's you going. So the barking worked. So it's a pretty simple thing. In psychology, there are some really basic sort of principles.

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