hi it's K D here our puppy(4 months)has been jumping  up and sitting with us at the table.we have put him down saying "down" and he keeps on jumping up he once jumped on to the table!!!and then we put him out the room and tuck all the chairs under so he can't jump up. we are worried that he will hurt himself.
K D

when my pup tried something similar to this when we were eating i took him out of the room for 3 minutes, with no reprimand, just a quick removal, then I let him in again, he tried it again , i removed him again, the third time when he came back in he got the message.

Have you tried giving him his meal at the same time in another room .
Otherwise put him out into the kitchen or hall while you eat this will become a habit and he will accept this as his normal routine.

Roni

Most pups of this age would happily leap around the table like eejits but be firm and certainly don't let him get to the stage of actually jumping on the table. Tell him to stop jumping and settle down and if he carries on then take him out of the room. If he stops jumping then give him loads of praise so he learns that it's much nicer to have good table manners!

IMHO dogs learn far quicker if we tell them what we *do* want rather than simply react to the stuff they do that we don't like.  How about training an 'on your bed' command, so you can use this at meal times?

He is naughty, but thats the charm too. We dont allow the behaviour and know that with persistence ..!The thing that is worrying, is that he is so nimble at such a young age. We really dont want him to hurt himself.

The "on your bed" bed command that the other post suggested is one we used from the start.  Even if we eat off our laps (tut tut) she is not allowed to come near us. We have never ever, not even once, fed her from our plates. She gets fed after we have eaten and gets any scraps then.

I have training issues with my dog in other areas but this is one where we started as we meant to go on and can boast we got it bang on the button ;)  Consistency is the key

You've been given some brilliant advice :) I just wanted to add that if you ever feed him titbits from the table you will always have a problem with him, even if he only occasionally gets lucky   They seem to find this even more of an incentive to keep trying  :rolleyes: ;)   So if you want to stop this behaviour, follow the advice and never, ever let your pup "get lucky" with bits from the table ;) ;)

when we eat- either at table or on laps, Flo gets put on the 'step' that is in kitchen doorway, she has to stay there until we have finished, then she gets a treat afterwards which she only gets on the step!! its worked really well for all of us- as she can still see us, but knows its in her best interest to stay there.

sadly though she is still an awful scrounger- in the park she will run up to bins!! we have never fed her whilst we are eating- never, yet she always scrounges!

YOUR WRIGHT 

Thanks to you all, but I do feel I have to let you know, that what we are saying (mother and daughter) is that this Pup just leapt up and joined us at the table.
We have only ever ignored him whilst eating, forbidding even eye contact from any one at the table. (Teenaged boys always want to encourage the naughtiness but that is another story.) Really is the concern that a small dog at such a young age might hurt himself.

Can I just say my 6 year old daughter appears to have posted the above - I do know how to spell right!!  But at least she could see the advice given was good!  Sorry!

LOL

That's soo sweet :)

Thats lovely..This poster is often two of us, mother and daughter just 10.
I think they are often wiser than a lot of adults. with apologies to mine 5/6 is often the wisest of all.

Can you make the room out of bounds when you are not there?

When my son was a toddler I caught him standing on a dining chair with one food on the back as if to climb the back (ladder back chairs) Another occasion I walked into the room and he was standing on my highly polished dining room table and as soon as he saw me he beamed and turned to run.  I was pretty quick in those days thankfully.  It was difficult to try and train my young daughters to make sure they always pushed the chairs in tight under the table but really it was the only way to stop him and the only way to stop your dog I suspect if you can't keep him out of the room when you're not there.

He isn't ever allowed in when we are not here! He is just so quick and so cheeky, we haven't had it again but only because we have been careful. I did laugh at the idea of your little toddler on the table, it was the beam you got that tickled most. That is the same isn't it as the puppy dog eyes?

I'm still not sure how your pup is jumping straight from the floor onto the table unless he's crossed with a Harrier Jump Jet! Or is he using something else to help him get up there? Only mine was very adept at getting onto the dining room table if he thought your back was turned but only because there was a handy chair available to assist him. When discovered cavorting around on the table he'd look at me with an expression that said "On the Table? Me? Well how on earth did that happen?"  It was a great trick but one I thwarted by moving the chair!!

Thats the way he goes Roz....Glad to see you back You haven't been around for a few days?
He gets up via chair and the concern is that as he is not supposed to do stairs, in case of injury, then surely he is at risk like this. I guess its tough coz he is a terrier. The others are getting better at pushing in all chairs now.

Having also got a terrier I can confirm that they can be the wickedest little mutts at times! And yes, I've been temporarily absent while I was playing the Bad Fairy Asbo in a local pantomime.  Normal (?) service has now been resumed tho'!

As for hurting himself, he's probably in more danger from falling off the table than he is from the occasional foray onto it if he's using a chair to get up there. Only there's a rather relentless quality to stairs that potentially does the damage.

Thanks about the stairs bit...he will remain barred from that area for a while yet then.
Panto must have been fun..my social forays are more vicarious courtesy of daughter. And Pup too of course.