I have a 17 month old Staffy who is well behaved at the dog park (ignores people and very calm round other dogs)but when out walking on the lead or when visitors come to the house he lunges and wants to jump up on people. If people on the footpath ignore him, he is fine, but one word from them and he is lunging. I've read several trainers suggestions, most involve ignoring but you can't get strangers to do that! Any help on where to start would be great.

Try teaching a secure sit when someone is approaching and ficus on you.he only gets to say hi when he is stiiting. Use lots of treats too. A sitting dig can easily jump once he understand people approaching I get fuss and treat it should improve.lots if practice in all situations including at home with you. No sit no fuss

but one word from them and he is lunging.

Yes,them, in fact 'they' are no different to 'anything' which distracts in an uncontrolled environment & we, all of us, everyday, take our dogs out into an environment over which we have no control whatsoever & which may produce hundreds of multiple distracting 'to the dog' stimuli to it, stimuli which we dont know about because as humans we are distracted by a whole variety of different stimuli & often enough we dont know 'what' specifically has distracted the dog.

The most effective way to stop what you describe is to 'effectively' first train a one word command which 'means' "No" whatever word or sound you use does not matter, it only matters your dog knows what that sound/word means...........ie stop doing whatever it is, every land mammal on the planet learns this, in human kids we refer to it as teaching 'what to do' & 'what 'not' to do'.

So if you train your dog to respond to a "Leave" or "No" command you will solve the problems you outlined!
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It can be difficult to get well-meaning strangers to ignore a pup or young dog.  You also have to educate the strangers, and avoid the persistent offenders.  We have a very kind lady who positively encouraged my youngster to jump on her, and since he is more motivated by attention than treats we had to avoid her for about a year while teaching (with the help of more co-operative strangers!) youngster to sit for attention.

Absolutely agree. My border collie had this problem and, ridiculously, I had never thought to use the strong 'Leave' command which he already knows and obeys.
Advice from a trainer suggested that and it has worked - effective pretty much every time if said as soon as he spots people and reinforced when we get near.

Good luck!

Hi  I wonder if someone familiar with British Bulldogs can advise on their general behaviour. My neighbour has an entire male of the breed and two years ago, whilst talking to my neighbour in the street for 5 minutes or so after having greeted the dog, without any warning he jumped up and head butted me in the face and then did it again, this time biting my face. According to my neighbour 'he is only playing'! I had to report the incident to the Police as I was worried that he might do it to a child next time and the Police went to see her and the dog was put on the register as having bitten a human. Since then the dog has showing worrying signs of aggression and often hurls himself at the fence between us barking aggressively if I go near the fence between our gardens. My neighbour does nothing to stop him doing this or barking which is another problem with him.
Yesterday, for the second time he got into a fight with my neighbour the other side's staffy. No-one saw which dog instigated the attack but it was very nasty and force had to be used to separate them. The bulldog had been brought round the back of the houses to use the access path to the end of the gardens without a lead on. It had to walk past the staffy's back gate which is a wrought iron one. The staffy owners said that they heard some banging and think that the bulldog threw himself at the gate to get at the staffy which bounced the latch up but no-one actually saw it. I might add that the staffy doesn't get on with other dogs and so they walk him on an extension lead with a muzzle early in the morning to avoid any issues.
As a result of yesterday's incident the bulldog's owner and partner came banging on doors denying the dog was off lead and blaming it all on the staffy and making threats. I raised the fact that her dog had bitten me so was not necessarily the innocent party and she said again that he had only been  playing and was wagging his tail and my face was bitten because 'his teeth are at the front'!
I am somewhat astounded by this and wonder whether any bulldog owners can tell me if this is the case. I am not sure how she accounts for the fact that one of his incisors punctured a hole in my cheek as well as the deep grazes.
What I really would like to know is whether this is normal behaviour for this breed or am right in being very fearful of him. Incidentally I have a golden retriever and am only really familiar with this breed.

There are specific dog training for jumping dogs that can help in stopping the dog to jump.

The post you replied to is over 5 years old

Yes but it resonated with me . i have a five year old golden Retriever, lovely in every way except that i never dare let her off lead in a public place as she loves everybody and everything but demonstrates this by trying to jump up and hug them. Her now 15 year old + father was the same until he was about 8 or 9.

She is also phobic about getting into the car. It takes all kinds in inducements before she'll get in and she shivers and drools throughout te journey. She loves the walks she gets on arrival but we have to go through the same bl...y performance on the return journey .

Any  breed could potentially behave in a similar way but the biting is very worrying and not something to be expected
Your first issue is with the owners because unless they are prepared to take responsibility for their dogs behaviour you will have a problem  .
Atm it sounds like.they are making excuses rather than trying to take the issue

Furriefriends:  Could I just ask what detail of training should  people adopt for this very problem?  Something I have aslo struggled with in the past as I'm sure many others have and would appreciate some advice.

Sorry - not biting - just jumping

I am not a trainer or behaviourist so would suggest if someone has such a problem they seek help from those who are properly qualified. .
My own dogs have learned not to jump up mainly by teaching a strong sit command its hard to sit and  jump at the same time   lesrned from good trainers and having people turn away and ignore.  Not always successful but over time the dogs stopped jumping up

Thank you furriefriends.  I do basic Puppy Training classes and have had 2 owners return with Puppy jumping again.  During their day with me they said they had followed ignoring, both hand & verbal commands as taught but obviously not in the case  of new owner as both Puppies behaved impeccably during the revisit here.  Will bear in mind if future problems arise.

My FCR is the same. I have discovered that she will voluntarily jump into the boot if I have a hot dog in my hand (M & S preferred option). I am sent to Coventry if she doesn't get a bite of it for jumping in. However for the good of my back, as sans hot dog I have to lift her in, I have discovered she is happy to travel while curled up in the foot well of my cars passenger seat. She just doesn't like travelling in the boot.

I had Doberman’s in the eighties and one of them a very large boy would always jump up...so I started training him as soon as he started doing it. This is what I did, when he jumped up I held his arms/paws gently in that position and talk to him in a friendly way with a cheerful happy voice..after a few minutes he would try to get back down on all four legs but I kept him there a little longer before I would let him back down. Eventually he realised that he jumped up he would not be able to get back down and guess what..it worked it cured his jumping up.