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Topic Dog Boards / Behaviour / Jumping up
- By Graciemay [gb] Date 17.09.12 11:01 UTC
What ways can I try to stop my puppy from jumping up, I do tell her no and ignore her, turn my back on her. Anything else cos she's still thinking its a game but I am persevering with what im doing all ready
- By Trialist Date 17.09.12 17:46 UTC
I reckon this is about as good a way as any:

http://drsophiayin.com/resources/video_full/dog-workshop-demo

Rather than punishing the jumping up (with the use of the word 'no') give the reward for not jumping - whether you use the sit, as in this video, or just standing - and reward big time. It's easy then to introduce the command 'off'.

I've never found turning my back and ignoring my dogs ever stopped them from doing anything they wanted, but then I've got very clever Border Collies ... they skipped the chapter in the book that says turning your back on them stops them jumping up!! :-D
- By theemx [gb] Date 17.09.12 17:47 UTC
Why is she jumping up?

If she is trying to greet you, thats ok - teach her how you would rather she greeted you, ie, with all four paws on the floor. So teach her to sit, and if she jumps you stand up and step back or stand up and turn around. If she does sit, you reward her.

If shes trying to get you to play, why is she bored? Give her more attention, ie training, puzzle solving, socialisation, so that she has less need to ask you to play with her, and then do as above so if she DOES need to ask you, she has an appropriate way to do so.

Finding ways to ignore unwanted behaviour is only a part of the solution - working out why that behaviour occurs, and teaching an appropriate alternative is also necessary, because dogs are not very good (neither are humans!) at being told 'don't do that' - if they NEED to do something, and you say 'dont do that' you aren't being very helpful, theres 101 things she could do that would ALSO be wrong, its much easier for you both if you tell her what the right thing is to start with!
- By rabid [gb] Date 20.09.12 22:23 UTC
See this bit of the post I just made on the other thread about jumping up:

"2)  Teach a strong 'sit-to-say-please' concept.  Sophia Yin is really hot on this idea and has lots of useful videos demonstrating it - here is a video of her teaching a dog to sit for a person to pat it:  http://drsophiayin.com/resources/video_full/stellah_sits_for_excited_petting   and another one:  http://drsophiayin.com/resources/video_full/teaching-a-dog-to-sit-politely-rather-than-jump   and how to begin the exericse (with a GSP, incidentally):   http://drsophiayin.com/resources/video_full/say_please_and_suddenly_settle 

Use 'sit to say please' every time your dog wants anything:  To go outside, for you to put the food bowl down, for attention - the more varied the contexts you can use it in, the better.  Note that Sophia doesn't ASK the dog to sit, she just rewards sitting and withdraws what the dog wants if the dog doesn't sit."
- By Brainless [gb] Date 21.09.12 09:14 UTC
Of course the position doesn't have to be sit, it can be down (the one I used when the children were small). 

These days it's stand, as I show the dogs and I am a lazy trainer, and find down and stand more useful to me.

I don't find I need sit with my dogs at all, if anything it just gets their leads tangled more easily when I walk them all together, so horses for courses.
Topic Dog Boards / Behaviour / Jumping up

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