{"id":6410,"date":"2022-03-25T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:35:11","slug":"why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is my dog barking at nothing in the middle of the night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_in_the_middle_of_the_night\" title=\"Why is my dog barking at nothing in the middle of the night?\">Why is my dog barking at nothing in the middle of the night?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_an_empty_space\" title=\"Why is my dog barking at an empty space?\">Why is my dog barking at an empty space?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_all_of_a_sudden_at_night\" title=\"Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden at night?\">Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden at night?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_do_dogs_bark_at_3am\" title=\"Why do dogs bark at 3am?\">Why do dogs bark at 3am?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_all_of_a_sudden\" title=\"Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden?\">Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/why-is-my-dog-barking-at-nothing-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/#Why_does_my_dog_bark_randomly_for_no_reason\" title=\"Why does my dog bark randomly for no reason?\">Why does my dog bark randomly for no reason?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_in_the_middle_of_the_night\"><\/span>Why is my dog barking at nothing in the middle of the night?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Often it&#8217;s because they see or hear an animal in the yard, or because they hear other dogs barking in the neighborhood. Other reasons they bark include <b>loneliness, lack of supervision, or inadequate exercise and play. To get them to stop barking at night, you need to give them a more rewarding option.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_an_empty_space\"><\/span>Why is my dog barking at an empty space?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is possible that <b>your dog smells something that he doesn&#8217;t like or senses something foreign in that particular space in your living room. Animals can sense spirits (or ghosts) and sometimes react.  He growls because he doesn&#8217;t like that animal being there.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_all_of_a_sudden_at_night\"><\/span>Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden at night?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sadly, the most common medical cause behind sudden nightly barking is <b>canine cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS), a disease that typically affects older dogs. However, pups with anxiety disorders may also develop a habit of barking during the night.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_do_dogs_bark_at_3am\"><\/span>Why do dogs bark at 3am?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Owners tend to notice their dogs&#8217; barking the most around the early morning hours such as 2 or 3am. Once more, the reason dogs bark at this time is that <b>they hear something that sets them off. If you live in an area with wildlife, it could be a variety of different animals outside such as: Coyotes.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_my_dog_barking_at_nothing_all_of_a_sudden\"><\/span>Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>He may be barking because of separation anxiety, to establish and maintain territory, due to illness or injury, as a form of alarm, from frustration or seeking attention, as a greeting or as part of a social situation.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_does_my_dog_bark_randomly_for_no_reason\"><\/span>Why does my dog bark randomly for no reason?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Owners tend to notice their dogs&#8217; barking the most around the early morning hours such as 2 or 3am. Once more, the reason dogs bark at this time is that <b>they hear something that sets them off. If you live in an area with wildlife, it could be a variety of different animals outside such as: Coyotes.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Why is my dog barking at nothing in the middle of the night?Why is my dog barking at an empty space?Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden at night?Why do dogs bark at 3am?Why is my dog barking at nothing all of a sudden?Why does my dog bark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}