Skip to main content If your dog barks at everything, interrupting Zoom meetings, work calls, here's how to fix that Richard A. Marini FacebookTwitterEmail Dog food bowlmonkeybusinessimages/Getty Images/iStockphoto COVID has been tough on all relationships. Spending months cooped up together in the house has strained even the best of marriages, and it’s led to a heartbreaking realization for many all over the world: our dogs are nowhere near the angels we thought they were. They’ve interrupted countless Zoom meetings and work calls with their barking at the postman, the Amazon delivery van, the doorbell, the cat across the street, the bird in the window, the fly in the house, the neighbors’ kids playing, the phone ringing and the tree branch swaying in the wind.