Excessive barking can quickly disrupt your home, strain relationships with neighbors, and anger landlords and HOAs. Fortunately, a solution is available! Comprehensive Pet Therapy designs targeted behavior modification solutions that train barking dogs to become more confident, secure, relaxed, happy, and QUIET.
CPT behavior modification programs educate dogs; strengthen the dog-owner relationship; build calmer, happier households; and improve the quality of life of both owners and dogs.
Schedule a customized excessive barking training plan in Atlanta that quickly restores peace and quiet to your home.
Schedule an AppointmentEvery case of excessive barking is different. Consequently, CPT will tailor your dog’s training program based upon temperament, age, origins, triggers, and the environment.
CPT Staff Trainers and Head Trainers understand complex dog behavior- including anxiety, reactivity, impulsivity, excitability, and other causes of undesirable barking.
CPT focuses on practical training solutions that create lasting change at home and in public settings.
CPT provides a variety of services. Therefore, CPT can certainly provide a solution that satisfies your needs and budget. When resolving excessive barking, CPT normally recommends starting with in-home private instruction or private instruction at CPT. Then, after achieving results privately, we may test solutions within group class. However, for persons not having the time, interest, or ability to participate during early training stages, we may recommend a board train. And for persons living distant from Atlanta, we may recommend virtual private instruction.
Regardless of your situation, Comprehensive Pet Therapy delivers professional dog training for excessive barking in Atlanta, or elsewhere, with measurable, successful, lasting results.
The earlier you address excessive barking, the easier it is to modify the behavior. Therefore, ideally, you should schedule a CPT behavior modification program immediately upon observing undesirable barking. A training program will have the highest probability of obtaining rapid, permanent success if we intervene before barking behavior becomes severe or habitual.
Early intervention prevents barking from developing into a deeply ingrained behavior that becomes your dog’s impulsive or strategic coping solution amidst stress. CPT training programs establish better owner-dog communication and facilitate long-term behavioral stability at your home and around distractions.
Regardless of whether you own an Atlanta dog, live elsewhere in Georgia, or reside out of state, CPT has a solution that will transform your dog from an out of context barker into a relaxed, quiet, happy, and more enjoyable pet.
Comprehensive Pet Therapy is true to its name. CPT’s behavior modification plans thoroughly address the origin of your dog’s barking, not just the behavior itself.
CPT implements a trifurcated solution plan- three prongs. Prong 1 is addressing the origin. Prong 2 is preventing continuation of the behavior. And Prong 3 is symptomatic, where we facilitate adoption of relaxed, quiet replacement behaviors.
Nevertheless, Prong 1 is the key. If we extinguish underlying anxiety, territoriality, defensiveness, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, excitability, attention-seeking, or general understimulation, then your dog’s barking behavior should concurrently disappear.
Thus, CPT’s approach focuses on your barking dog feeling safe, secure, content, and relaxed, whereby the emotional state that triggered barking no longer remains relevant. CPT’s method contrasts with the methods commonly employed by competitors, who too frequently manage or discipline barking behavior, rather than focus on the underlying condition that generates barking. Most competitors lack CPT’s knowledge, background, and experience. CPT incorporates proven canine science, canine psychology, research findings, and field data that achieve successful results.
Throughout the process of a CPT barking reduction plan, Comprehensive Pet Therapy Trainers listen, guide you step-by-step, provide clear instruction, request feedback, measure progress, and tweak strategies accordingly, so that we achieve the highest probability of reaching goal outcomes. Your success is our success.
Modifying excessive barking will:
Comprehensive Pet Therapy behavior modification programs for barking Atlanta dogs create a calmer, more pleasant household and a superior owner-dog relationship. Why allow barking problems to persist? Schedule a CPT dog training program that modifies your barking dog into a figurative “dream dog.” Whether you live in Atlanta, another Georgia area, out of State, or in Canada, CPT has a program that can teach your barking dog to become calm and quiet, both at home and in public settings.
Excessive barking usually signals an unmet need, overstimulation, excitability, generalized anxiety, state anxiety, separation anxiety, fear, general understimulation, boredom, or attention-seeking. Comprehensive Pet Therapy evaluates your dog’s temperament, behavior, environment, health, and age; the contexts when and where barking occurs; the pitch, volume, and pattern characteristics of your dog’s barking; and accompanying body language to determine the root cause of your dog’s barking behavior. CPT Trainers will next design a customized behavior modification plan. Once customizing your solution plan, CPT Trainers educate you how to implement the training, management, communication, and facility modification protocols prescribed within the plan. Whether you reside where CPT has locations in Atlanta, Georgia and Eugene, Oregon, other states in the USA, or in Canada, CPT can resolve your dog’s barking problem.
The key is resolving the origin of your dog’s barking, be it an unmet need, overstimulation, excitability, generalized anxiety, state anxiety, separation anxiety, fear, general understimulation, boredom, or attention-seeking. In the interim, we prevent continuation of habitual barking, by controlling exposure to stimuli or contexts that provoke barking behavior. Concurrently, CPT uses positive reinforcement training to encourage your dog to adopt a mutually satisfying, quiet, relaxed coping behavior.
Typically, treating excessive barking behavior requires 2 - 4 in-home appointments with a CPT Head Trainer, combined with some virtual follow-up. However, the timeline for goal accomplish depends upon multiple factors, including your dog’s temperament; the origin, severity, and duration of your dog’s barking behavior; the ability to prevent exposure to provocative stimuli and contexts; and your ability to implement the treatment plan. Some dogs improve almost immediately- after just one appointment. Most frequently, goal outcomes occur within 2 – 6 weeks. On the other hand, the most refractory dogs may require several months and a few plan revisions before achieving ultimate success.
Yes, CPT customizes all behavior modification plans. Therefore, CPT personalizes services for excessive dog barking training in Atlanta, based upon the characteristic of your dog and your dog’s behavior, as well as your environment, preferences, and budget. This way, we accomplish the highest probability of achieving rapid and lasting results.
When resolving excessive barking, for Atlanta dogs, CPT typically recommends in-home private instruction with a CPT Head Trainer. For persons residing outside the Atlanta-metro area or for in-home follow-up, we recommend virtual private instruction with a CPT Head Trainer. Via virtual instruction, CPT has helped clients from throughout the USA and Canada.
CPT also has a location in Eugene, Oregon. Therefore, CPT can also provide in-home instruction in the Eugene-metro area.
To schedule an in-home or virtual appointment, please email CPT or contact the CPT office by phone (404-236-2150). When calling, please note CPT office hours are M – F from 9 am – 4 pm.
When resolving excessive barking, for dogs residing outside the Atlanta or Eugene-metro areas, CPT typically recommends virtual private instruction with a CPT Head Trainer. Via virtual instruction, CPT has helped clients from throughout the USA and Canada.
To schedule a virtual appointment, please email CPT or contact the CPT office by phone (404-236-2150). When calling, please note CPT office hours are M – F from 9 am – 4 pm.
Need to get in touch with CPT? I’ve got you covered.
Pick what works best for you!
