Barking to alert one’s owner is one thing, but the same alert response soaring to a degree of epic proportions is not healthy behaviour. An anxious dog is an under-confident dog, and a dog that barks constantly has more underlying issues than what they let on. In cases of excessive barking, behaviour trainers must be allowed to observe the dog’s behaviour around their usual spaces to check what enables such behaviour. Sometimes, the paw parent themselves can be great enablers when the dog is the saviour of one family member but a complete time-ticking bomb for another.