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My three year old miniature schnauzer who I name Ilse or Ilsa is an excitable barker and as I was talking to my mum the other day one of the things that I told her is that ignoring the barking doesn’t make it go away as Ilse doesn’t think it is wrong. So then I told mum when Ilse barks for her food when I dole it out instead of putting her food dish down on the floor I should leave it on the table and walk away, and only feed her when she is quiet. And mum agreed that I should try it and so I did.

Then after Ilse has been quiet for a few minutes I then walked back to the table and told her sit, then I put her food dish down and when she looked at me I told her ok. And I found that I only had to do this once as after having done that Ilse hasn’t done any more excitable barking for her food.