Maltese Forum:
barking

Are Maltese very yappy? Can they be trained not to bark too much or hardly at all? Are they easy to train?

I have a male Maltese. He's the first Maltese I've owned (I also have a Shih Tzu and a Shih Tzu mix.) He is a barker, but not all day. He barks if he hears a dog on tv or when we are outside walking and he sees a dog bigger than him. But he stops as soon as he sniffs them and then just ignores them. I've been told they can be hard to train, but he trained in ONE DAY. He goes on a puppy pad inside or outside and rarely has an accident. He's very smart!!