What Does Your Dog Do While You’re Working?

Are you working from home and need your dogs to be quiet while you’re on a call?

Or have you come home to damaged curtains or blinds, scratches on your window, or a neighbor’s complaints about your dog barking all day?

Here are some easy tips to manage the environment to keep your dog from practicing undesirable behaviors like barking many times each day. The more your dog barks throughout the day without intervention, the higher the potential for their reaction to escalate.

Some dogs can look out the window all day without any issues, but others are more easily stressed or frustrated, so they will benefit from not hearing or seeing something that would trigger barking.

Dog Fun Facts:

Dogs need to sleep an average of 16 hours a day, and can get cranky, like a toddler, if they don’t get enough rest.

A dog’s sense of hearing is about four times as sensitive as ours, so what we can hear at 20 feet, a dog can hear at 80 feet. They can also hear higher frequency sounds than we can.

Management Tips for dogs who bark excessively at deliveries or people/pets walking past:
1. Apply window film at your dog’s level. Less stress = more rest
2. Before you leave, turn on classical, reggae, or soft rock music. You can also try audiobooks, podcasts, or a sound machine. Some people leave their TVs on for their dogs, assuming the dogs are also not reactive to the animals on the TV.
3. Provide daily exercise and mental stimulation. Meeting your dog’s needs will prevent them from trying to meet their own needs in ways that are inconvenient for people.

These management tips are especially great when used with a training plan from a certified trainer. Training is much easier when your dog isn’t practicing their barking 8-10 hours a day while you’re away.

Hear no triggers
See no triggers
Do no barking

Bonus: There is even prismatic window film that creates rainbows if you apply it in a sunny window!

We offer regular pet behavior classes from our certified behavior and training team. Visit utahhumane.org/events or follow us on social media to find out when a new class is added.

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