[Ocean]

After her first QUIET week with us, during which I had decided that Ocean was a non-barking Rottie, she seems to have done an about-face. Beginning yesterday, she started barking when she hears another dog barking, a person's voice that she can't see, and various other unidentified sounds.

This is all right for the most part; dogs all bark sometime, right? But she is barking at night in her crate at the noises she hears outside - I finally had to go shut the windows in the kitchen where the crate is and put on the A/C so she couldn't hear outside noise! She went right to sleep after that.

This morning I let her out at 6:00, and she immediately started barking at EVERYTHING. I can't have her doing this, if I had a neighbor who let a large loud dog out at 6:00 am, I would be waiting with a shotgun!!! (Just kidding, but I would be pretty angry with them.)

I want to nip this problem in the bud before it becomes a permanant bad habit. How can I let her know that this is unacceptable, and how do I teach her what things are okay to bark at?