Need help with excessive barking
I’m looking for some advice on how to control excessive barking.
We have a 4 year old mix, he’s about 50lbs. He barks excessively and to be honest, it’s a horrible way to live.
He is crate trained, he doesn’t bark when we leave, but when we come home, he barks non stop, we let him out of his crate within 5 minutes of being home (once he’s calmed down).
When he is outside, sometimes he’ll just bark and bark and bark. If we didn’t know our neighbors well, they would definitely call animal control.
I’ve tried bark collars/ training collars. (Both cheap ones from Amazon) one had a remote with three settings, beep, vibration & shock. We never used the shock on a high setting & only used it if the beep and vibration did not work. It work eh, ok, but not great.
The bark collar had great reviews, but it’s awful. I feel like it makes it worse. It beeps, vibrates and shocks. But I don’t think it actually shocks because he doesn’t pay any attention to it.
I’m wondering if there is another collar out there that would work better.
Would it be best to get a good training collar with a remote and training him to not bark excessively using that, or to get a good bark collar that works on its own?
I understand dogs bark, I don’t want to take that away completely, but the excessive barking is getting out of control and at this point causing issue within our house.