Little Hawk: Huh??? Not sure why you're singling me out particularly. I'm not the one complaining about the noise (just complaining about a couple of the "solutions" others have posted! *grin*). But I do think that the dog-training experts I cited would disagree with you about the inevitability of the constant barking and about how fulfilling it is to their lives. As Cesar Milan would say, they need a pack leader to make then "calm-submissive"...