If Your Puppy Barks When Strangers Are At The Door
One reason your puppy barks is from an instinct handed down to her from her grey wolf ancestors of 15,000 years ago. Wolves then (as now) lived in packs, and barking was a way of scaring off intruders and alerting the rest of the pack to a probable danger. Currently, you and your family are your puppy’s “pack,” and she engages in this sort of territorial barking whenever she senses a stranger nearing her pack’s “den” (in this case, your home). Not surprisingly, it can be this incredibly habit within your puppy that makes her a good watch dog, so it’s probably not some thing you want to quit completely. The dilemma arises when your puppy starts barking at the approaching letter carrier or family friend and does not quit.