Why Has My Dog Suddenly Started Barking At Our Mail Basket For Nothing?
Hi, we have a Border Terrier who is starting to show, to me, some odd behaviour, he is just over a year old, he started ripping the mail to shreds from an early age so we got a mail basket, just under a year ago, he obviously barks at the basket when we receive mail, but the past couple of weeks he's started barking at it for absolutely no reason, we find that baffling, also, in the morning he'll go into the garden, scratch the door to come back in, eat a few biscuits, wait at the door to be re-let out, as soon as the door is shut he'll scratch to come back in, eat a few biscuits, wait to be let out and so on and so on, he'll repeat this behaviour several times, in the end we just refuse to let him out, walking, he's absolutely fine, he gives a paw when we ask, for treats etc but he just displays some really, to us, odd behaviour, the barking's the worst, he barks at absolutely nothing sometimes, there's no noise, no cars, no-one walking past the house, it gets very frustrating, any ideas why he bahaves like this, many thanks :-)