Dog Training – Jumping Up
Nothing worse when a visitor walk in your house and your dog jumps up to greet them. How can you overcome this problem? Again quite simple. Get the person just to shuffle forward into the dog. It knocks the dog off balance for a second and he returns to all four paws on the ground. When all four paws, or the dog is in the sit position, are on the floor get the person to praise and pet the dog.
You are trying to get your dog to understand when it has all four paws on the ground it gets what it wants. What that? Your attention and fuss. Easy really. You might have to do this and get everyone else to do the same a few times before the excitable dog gets the message. But as in all training – do it and keep doing it. Make sure everyone else does it as well. If your dog gets mixed messages – sometimes gets away with it other time not – he reckons there is a chance he will get what he want if he jumps up. So he jumps up.
All you need to do is get everyone who comes into contact with your dog to do the same thing. Doggy will soon learn then!
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