How do you stop dogs from barking?

Some dogs just love to bark. Sometimes they bark at night, which can be a problem if you are not in deep sleep. How do you tell them to be quiet?

I'm not a dog owner and I've never trained one, but I have heard (I think it was Victoria Stillwell from Animal Planet) say that you reward the dog after it has been quiet for a while, but ignore the dog when it's barking, and eventually it will decide that being quiet is prefable. On the other hand, from what I've seen on Dog Whisperer. Ceaser would probably poke it to startle it out of barking.

"Poke it" until the dog stop barking?
What do you poke the dog with? Your finger or a stick?
I don't think the dog will like to be poked. I know I don't.

By ignoring the dog, it will stop barking? I hope so.

I used the word "poke" because i didn't know what else to call it. It's actually more of pinch/mock bite, like mom dog might correct a pup.

Dogs from barking is good and bad also we can see this by both of the sides because when its barking we can alert if there will some strangers but when we are in sleep so it also create disturbance sometimes at night.


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