Teach Your Dog To Stay Calm When The Doorbell Rings

Through my acquaintance as a dog trainer I accept abstruse that humans are generally ashamed by their dog's behavior at the aperture if visitors arrive. I accept formed with a amount of audience whose dogs behave awfully if anyone knocks on the aperture or rings the doorbell. Their dogs accept reacted in abounding altered ways. Some were ever affable and aflame to accept aggregation while others would case or bark.
In fact, over the years, I accept apparent actual few dogs that do not go crazy if visitors arrive. If you anticipate about it, knocks at the aperture and a campanology doorbell are cues; the aforementioned affair happens every time we apprehend them. We get up and blitz to the aperture and our kids even run to the aperture to see who is there. Based on our reactions our dogs apprentice that it is something to be aflame about. If dogs acknowledge in this way it is accepted for owners to grab their collar, agitate a can of coins, or aerosol them with baptize from a bottle. These methods are abortive and do annihilation added than alert dogs to acknowledge to the doorbell even added because they are now acquirements that something bad will appear every time the doorbell rings.
Knowing that this is such a anticipated cue, the claiming is to accumulate our dogs from acceptable ever aflame or agitated if anyone knocks on our aperture or rings our doorbell. In my opinion, one of the best methods you can use to change your dog's acknowledgment to visitors at the aperture is to advise them an another behavior, such as traveling to a appropriate place. This is not alone one of the easiest behaviors to advise it is aswell a adequately simple behavior for your dog to apprentice as continued as you yield the time to plan with your dog.
In adjustment to be able to advise your dog this new behavior one of the aboriginal things you will wish to do is accept some absolutely top amount treats readily available. I accept abstruse to abode treats in altered places about the abode so I can grab some if I charge them. Already you accept your treats accessible you will charge to adjudge area you wish your dog to go if he hears the doorbell or knock. One suggestion, and what I do, is to abode a dog bed about ten anxiety from the door. This will put your dog in a abode area he can see the aperture and will acquiesce you to be abutting abundant to accord him treats if needed.
Once you are able with your treats and a appropriate abode for your dog, ring the doorbell or beating on the door. If your dog reacts, allurement him over to his abode and accord him a treat. At this point it is not important for him to break there. At first, all that you are aggravating to advise him is to go to this abode if the doorbell rings. You will wish to convenance this until he goes to his abode on his own about 90% of the time if he hears the doorbell or knock.
As he starts to accept that traveling to his appropriate abode is what he is to do if he hears the doorbell or a knock, you will afresh wish to advise him to lie down already he gets there. To advise this, ring the doorbell, but this time if your dog goes to his bed or appropriate abode you wish him to lie down afore giving him the treat. He should aces this up a little quicker and should alpha to go to his appropriate abode and lie down on his own as anon as he hears the doorbell or knock.
Next, it is time to advise him to break in his appropriate abode while you go to acknowledgment the door. This action should be accomplished in increments. First, ring the alarm and if he goes to his appropriate abode and lays down, acquaint him to stay. Next, yield a footfall aback afore abutting him to accord him the treat. Do this until you can calculation to ten already you've stepped back, authoritative abiding he is blockage put the absolute time. Already he's baffled this, try it again, but yield two accomplish aback this time. The abstraction is to body up the time and ambit slowly. As you access the ambit or accomplish back, abatement the time afore a amusement is given.
The next and final footfall is to accept him break on his bed or in his appropriate abode while you accessible the aperture and in fact let your visitors in. I usually ask a acquaintance or ancestors affiliate to advice and accept them ring the doorbell or beating on the door. Already your dog is on his bed or in his appropriate place, amusement him, ask him to stay, and airing over to the aperture and accessible it. If you accomplished the aloft accomplish thoroughly your dog should break in his abode the accomplished time. You can aswell advise him to break there while your bedfellow walks over to accord him a amusement for getting such a acceptable dog!
Remember to accumulate the training constant and accomplish it fun. You will be afraid how bound your dog will apprentice to go to his abode if he hears the doorbell or a beating on the door.