Barking at People Walking By

Can you block there access to looking outside? Or is it when they are outside? 

When theyre outside.

I have a similar problem (only with Max and Benny), only it's when my dogs are inside and it's not so much a seeing issue (although that does make it worse), but it is when they hear people outside that gets them going.  

Right now, I am trying to call them to me and treat.  It will definitely help strengthen their recall, but I worry they will begin to bark just to get a treat and then go back to barking.

I am curious to know what others have to say on this topic. 

Well they are dogs.....its kinda their thing, LOL.

I was walking with a neighbor with our dogs and we passed a yard with two barking dogs and she made a commnet like "ugh, they always bark when we walk by it drives me crazy"

I laughed so hard to myself......ugh it used to be a barking dog is a commodity but now its a nuisance.

Granted its due to ever expanding communities, intolerance from neighbors and having more then one dog can sure rile up the rest of the pack.

First, make sure your getting up, going out into the yard and removing or distracting the dogs. I personally have a 3 barks and your in the house rule. I only pull in the barker, not both dogs. Since Primo likes balls I can sometimes go outside and say "no bark, come get this ball" and distract him from barking.

Rory is too smart and rarely barks so sometimes all I have to offer her is a "thank you, good girl, thats enough". And she wags her tail like a job well done, LOL.

If your like my mother in law and just yell at the dogs from inside your home, LOL thats not going to do the trick.....if anything it might work to the opposite effect.

 Teddi barks when people walk by the yard, since our front yard is fenced in. Maggie not so much unless they are both outside and Teddi gets her going. We have been working with once he barks at someone or a dog walking by, he has to go in the house. Same when Maggie does it but she doesn't care, she'd rather be inside anyway. I always try to catch him at the 2nd or 3rd bark, and bring him in so that way he connects it.  He's getting better about it, but its not so much an aggressive bark, its more of a hi, im making myself known bark. lol. Our neighbor has 4 dogs that bark like crazy and are hardly corrected, so its hard when Teddi hears all them barking and he's wondering why he can't bark.

Gypsy isn't allowed to bark indiscriminately.  I taught her "Quiet!" at a young age.  That being said, my neighbor's two beast bark when a leaf drops off a tree, so I have to be on Gypsy a bit.  I would LOVE to teach Max "Quiet!", but since he's not mine... 

I taught my shelties "quiet" too, and it works fine indoors and for casual barking, but since we got our fence up, they've kinda gone nuts with the barking at walkers. I know it's a huge breed thing with shelties, but outdoors when people walk by or even when neighbors are out, they get into a frenzy. The "quiet" command isn't working anymore and it seems impossible to distract them. I've been going out with them every time for now, and the minute they start I tell them "quiet"...then if they get into crazy mode, we go in immediately. So far it's not really working as far as preventing them from starting to bark....I hope it does eventually. In the mean time, I also try not to have them out in the evening when the majority of people are out walking.

If it bothers you that they bark at walkers...work on a reliable recall, so they will come back to you when you call them.  Take this opportunity to practice recalling them (after they know what you mean) 

Are the walkers ignoring your dogs as they go by, or are they talking to them?  If the latter, ask the walkers to ignore them as they walk by.  Your dogs should soon get used to them and ignore.  Or, at least not be so intense.

Do the waklers have dogs?  Personally, speaking as a walker with dogs...I don't mind dogs behind a fence barking...its good distraction practice.