How do I get my dogs to stop barking?

Question

I live in an apartment and my neighbors across the hall are in and out a lot, and my dogs bark almost every time.
It drives me crazy and I hate to be that neighbor with the loud dogs. Luckily wee live in such a pet friendly apartment complex, so they won't do anything about it, but I still hate making my neighbors listen to it. 
How do I get them to stop barking in the moment? And how do I break their habit of barking at the door?

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Please dont get a bark collar😒🤦🏻‍♀️. There’s other alternatives. You can use the command “hush” or “quiet” and when they listen, give them a treat. After a few weeks they will get the hint. Are they getting enough exercise outdoors? That could also be a factor. It’s inevitable to get them to never bark as it’s how they communicate but you can decrease it. Also when they bark you can try playing with them as a distraction.

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I'm still trying to figure this out myself. Had our dog about 10 months now and she is like 80% better about barking at EVERY noise imaginable. She would even bark at leaves blowing around outside if she happen to see them through the window. Haha. We tried telling her no because she definitely knows what that meant but she didn't care. So we started snapping our fingers at her. We did once for some other reason with our kids and the dog stopped so we just went with it. Now she will usually stops the first time. She has a crate she goes in when we leave, when it's bedtime and sometimes when she's tired of everything she goes in there. So it's like a comfort for her. We would put her in that when we knew our maintenance guy was coming or something. She barely ever barks when in there.

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Positive reinforcement training and distraction. The dog only barks as a protection warning to let you know they can hear movement around your house and to make you aware. Some breeds naturally do it and others don’t, if it’s an unwanted behavior then training it out is the only way.

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What’s helped in my experience is a calming spray and lightly spritzing his bedding in his crate 30 mins before bed and place him away from the noise as possible with a blanket over the crate. And keeping a bit of noise in the background like a fan or the tv to drown out the neighbors

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Get this:

This is called a sunbeam sonic egg. You press the button and it emits a sound only the dogs can hear and they react by stopping whatever behavior they are doing at the time. If you use a word like no each time you press it, they will start to associate that word with that noise and you eventually will just need to say the word, not press the button. Works amazing for my dog.

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Put coins in an empty water bottle. When they start barking shake it near them. Stops my dogs instantly!

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My mom used a spray water bottle and gives her dog a little squirt when he barks and it FOR SURE works. They tried the bark collar and honestly it just made him terrified all the time. Now the water is just as annoying to him as his bark is to everyone else, so it’s harmless but works. Lol. 
Good luck to you!

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Spray bottle on stream works pretty god. If worse comes to worst shock collar because they learn pretty fast with that. And in an apartment where you can be fined have real consequences if they’re too loud I’d rather shut them up faster.

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Try pet corrector. I've had SO many people come back and tell me that it works wonders. It's a loud noise that you set off(away from their face) that will stop their action and gives you the chance to correct it. Maybe also consider some calming collars, treats, cbd oil, or diffusers. As someone who had a rat dog barking under us in our previous apartment 24/7 WITH a newborn I can tell you I thought about slipping a chocolate bar under the door more than once. Nobody wants to listen to that

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I have dogs who do the same. I've considered a bark collar!

How do I get my dogs to stop barking?

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