Excessive barking is a problem behavior best resolved with a healthy combination of correction and reward. All too often, force free trainers and owners alike who want to avoid corrective actions get stuck in an endless cycle of barking and then rewarding not barking. That’s a problem. Here’s why. Your dog barks, they finally stop so you reward like your learned from a ff trainer. Great. They bark some more, then stop, so you reward again, as you were told. But this just keeps happening. They ba