How can i get my dog to bark when somebody rings the doorbell?

Question

She is an 11 month old labrador the only time she barks is in the garden or in her sleep.

by the way twopence girls dogs don't have ***** any other stupid suggestions

Answer 1

god sum people are so stupid , get a life two pence n grow up , maybe even take a few biology lessons . any way back to the question...........
excite her and really wind her up!!!

Answer 2

You must teach your dog by example.
when the doorbell rings, you bark, and run as fast as you can to the door.
The dog will get the idea soon enough, and the person at the door will think it was the dog all the time.
If the dog does not get the idea, you will need to continue barking for it.
When you are outside though, do not bark at other dogs, people will get the wrong idea and chase you through the village with torches.

Answer 3

I don't know if it works or not, but a vet told me once to have someone ring the doorbell. Then, scoop the dog up and put it in a room so it can hear but not see what is going on.

I think the therory is the dog will want to alert the owners eventually. But, I'm not sure. My dogs have always barked.

There is a police dog trainer that told me she whispers 'Watch' to her dogs to get them to pay attention to their surroundings. Although, she didn't want them to make noise.

Good luck.

Answer 4

The first step is to teach your dog to speak.( I tell my dogs"say woof") The way I have taught my dogs to speak, is to find something that makes them bark ( a toy ,vacuum, blow dryer etc.) whatever works . Use it to get them to bark include you command verbal and hand if you like .Be patient and praise a good job. Keep training sessions short 10-15 mins max. Try to end on a successful note. Once they have learned the command move to the door bell, ring it and give your speak command. Once she gets it remove the command . you should then have a doorbell barking dog.

Answer 5

start training by using a certain tone in your voice, show excitement, not only for the doorbell but train more often by lets say asking her 'not' to get her toy (while you are holding it, be the boss, dont give in too easily, if she won't get it don't give her the toy), she will get too excited and her patience will shorten, wait for a while and use a hand signal or say something like 'woof' the excitement for her to get the toy may actually get her to 'woof' or 'bark', then give her the toy. same deal with the doorbell, she wants to know who it is, so if the bell rings she will bark as asking you to open the door. also the same when she may want something like water or food, she will bark at her food/water bowl. well, at least that's how it worked for my pug ;) good luck there .. woof woof!!!

Answer 6

The trick is to get the dog excited like someone has already suggested. "Who's there?"" Listen" . Any words that you choose use them consistently and be VERY excited with your tone and body language. She will get it eventually. It sounds like it will take time because I don't think labs are known for their guard dog tendencies. I have always owned shepherds and they bark instinctively to protect their territory. Don't forget to teach her a command to stop barking as well or you may end up with the opposite problem. Best of luck. Be diligent. Dogs only learn through repitition.

Answer 7

Try when someone rings the doorbell to wind her up and get her excited. eventually she should start barking i would have thought! use a really excited voice and try get her to come to the door with you. If you can plan it with a friend that they get excited to see her when you open the door and she might start associating the excitement and fuss with the doorbell!

Answer 8

That's a tough one. Because you don't want her to continue barking when the person walks in the door. Maybe teach her the command "speak" and when you ring the door bell say speak. Ring it again, and say speak. Keep doing that until she correlates the two. It's tough to teach dogs tricks....just be patient. Labs are smart, I'm sure she'll catch on.

Answer 9

I agree you don't want your dog to over bark, so teach her to command bark. For our pup, speak was the easiest command to teach next to sit. The only difficult thing is he has 5 commands he does; "sit, stay, shake, soft, and speak". The problem we ran into (and still do) is that because all his commands start with the S sound, he thinks he needs to "speak". We need to still work with him a lot so it is more controlled but he is very vocal anyhow so it won't be easy. His nickname is ET because he makes the same noises as E.T.-hehehe it's comical. The other problem we have run into is everytime he hears the word speak he barks. Thats annoying and another problem we will have to work with. Good luck to you and yours!

I also agree with the "who is it? listen"...that works well with Bower and he runs to the door or window to see who is here. One benefit is that he LOVES to join you in the bathroom and sometimes you just don't want him in there so we ask him who is here and he'll run to the door-just enough time to get the bathroom shut :)

Answer 10

Thats strange... most people want there dogs to stop this behavior.

If someone rings the door bell tell her to speak and bark yourself. That always gets my dog going.

Answer 11

excite her up and say whos that blah blah blah. you know how to wind your dog up i take it. just go on like someone is at the door who you are scared off, do it several times till she gets it and she will do it 70% of the time. but if she dont, then she wont. anyway, its fu*kin annoying when my dog barks at the door. you seriously dont want your dog to do it, trust me.