Negative Associations in Dogs I’m sure you all know that dogs have an exceptionally sensitive sense of smell, they have about 300 million olfactory cells, 60 times more than humans, so it can be said that dogs have a sense of smell that is 10,000 times more sensitive than humans. Dogs can smell or recognize far more smells than humans, and get far more information than humans. When a dog barks at a person, it is possible that it is picking up a foreign smell that is associated in its scent reserve with some negative smell, perhaps much like the smell from someone who has hurt the dog before, and they automatically associate it with someone who scares them. In addition to the sense of smell, dogs will also recognize features between people by sight, although not as sensitive as smell. Dogs will use human characteristics such as the type of clothing color as a memory point, and when it sees this feature through vision and associates it with the memory of something it is afraid of, it will also bark at people to protect itself. See sneaky people bullying people who are afraid of dogs how to make dogs do not bark owners can train dogs through appropriate rewards, in the dog barking at some people, the owner of the dog issued a certain command, such as “sit” “quiet”, if the dog stops barking, then use If the dog stops barking, the dog will be rewarded with a snack, and in the long run the dog will associate the command with the reward. If you are barking at a guest, you can also let the guest bribe the dog with a treat and tell the dog that the guest is not dangerous. Stopping the dog from barking first requires the owner to determine the cause in order to prescribe the right medicine. At the same time, snack training is best to find some strangers in advance, one by one to the dog, the owner repeatedly stop the dog and give the dog a snack, so the dog learns faster, naturally in the usual more efficient to stop the dog barking at people.
