Barking at home

The way your dog guards the house can be a window into how your dog feels about safety, responsibility, and connection. 

Guarding activities can be grounded in emotional stability and give dogs welfare, fulfilment, and the capacity to discriminate what needs attention from what doesn't. But guarding can also become an anxious reaction that pushes dogs into further instability, triggering extreme emotional responses and originating behavioural patterns they cannot get out of. 

In this webinar, we’ll start by understanding how free-roaming dogs organise the guard to see how this can translate into more stability at home and how we can break anxious barking loops. You’ll gain strategies to break anxious barking loops through social approaches, emotional regulation, and secure human-dog relationships.