Advice on how to socialize dog and stop him from barking at everything
Hello!
TLDR: How do I teach my dog to listen when he is outside and to not bark at everything and everyone when guest come over or when he is outside?
Context: My girlfriend and I adopted our dog Koda on June 19th, so it’s been about two weeks. He is a 11 month old mixed breed puppy. He was surrendered to the shelter but we don’t know the reason why, so he does have a bit of separation anxiety. He is a sweetheart and has been doing really good with training.
Only problem is the barking. He loves his crate and goes in there willingly, but the moment we leave the room he starts barking. It’s nothing crazy, its usually for about 1-3 minutes and then he is quiet for the rest of the night/day. He does have some days where the barks are wayyyy worse and he keeps going for like 10 minutes but i am not sure what causes it. We have been doing the coming in and out the room, so i think that just takes time.
Our main issue is when we have guests over he keeps barking at them. The moment they give him a treat he is good. Even when our roommate comes in he keeps barking at him, even though he sees him every day. When we are out at the park or the two times we have brought him to the store. He would just keep barking at every person or dog and no matter what we do he wont listen. It’s like he forgets his name and no matter how much treat we give him he just keeps being stubborn. Will it just take time and taking him out more often? Because he definitely gets overstimulated and then knocks out the moment we got home lol.
How would we socialize him and have him not bark at everything? Thank you!