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(1) "Holding her paws and squeezing" - invitation to play. Dogs will pin and hold each other and get each others paws, legs, necks... in their mouth and hold without pinching or biting as part of their games.
(2) Turning your back and ignoring her. Whoops - when dogs are playing with each other, one will swing away and turn their back end and hip at the other as a dare to the other to try to leap and jump at them.
Never have understood this nutty theory of "if doggy misbehaves, ignore them." First, how is the dog supposed to figure out that your are ignoring them and turning away because of their behavior and not because the cell phone rang or the teakettle came to a boil??? Second, how can anyone possibly beleive that this makes an logical sense?? What, when they walk in the house and their 16 year old is sitting there chugging beer and smoking pot, are they going to turn their back and ignore him so he will figure out that they disapprove and stop doing it??? Third, the dog wanted to jump up on you. The dog jumped up on you. Nothing negative happened to doggy when he jumped. Lesson learned: he can jump whenever he wants to.
(3) Some dogs are discouraged by the knee -some don't mind the hit and think it a game (usually the big strong dogs who are rather pain oblivious and find it a great game of 'push away'.)
Okay, if bumping her with your knee didn't work, we are going to escalate. We can try the first but I expect that it is going to take # 2 or # 3 to get through to the little wench.
Stop jumping by any of these methods:
(1) A loud “No” and push her off , and down flat on her belly and hold her down and scold her with “Bad, Bad Bad”. Then tell her “Okay,” let her up and give her a pat (if she doesn’t leap again -andif she does, back down she goes flat on the floor.)
(2) A loud “No” and time it so that as she comes off the ground, you bring your foot forward and step on her back foot. (You can always add the 'down on her belly- scold thing' to this)
(3) A loud “No” and as she comes up off the ground, raise your knee so that she hits it with her chest and bounces off, and take her down to the floor by grabbing the back of her neck and pin her on her belly and scold..
(4) With visitors, before they get there, put her leash and collar on her. She leaves the ground, you haul backwards and let her land on her backside. As she touches down, grab her and do the "down on her belly - get in her face - scold" thing. Let her up slowly with a "now be nice...." and if she keeps the feet on the ground, visitors can pet; but if she leaps, backwards she goes. (Better she bruises her backside than you get sued because she knocked down some some little old lady who broke her hip.)
In a group of dogs, if he leapt on the leader and the leader was not amused, they would knock him over, grab the skin on his neck or the side of his face and pinch it without breaking the skin, and growl.
That roaring NO, grabbing and shoving to the ground flat on their belly, mimics the leader.
Now scolding is an art. Learn to use your voice. Most people either let their voice slide up in register or they sound futile and weak. You want to deepen your voice and sound like a drill sergeant. The deep sound mimics the rumble/growl of the top dog.
While you pin him down and scold, lean over him with your upper body and get in his space (I call it "looming"); keep saying BAD BAD BAD - do NOT let your voice slide up, make it deep.
I'm fond of the finger shaking right at the nose as I explain in no uncertain words exactly what will not be tolerated. The words don't matter - it is the TONE. I have the habit of using phrases like " I DON'T THINK SO"; or " E X C U S E ME - WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING??!" (And a few slide into " THIS S - - T ENDS NOW MISTER!!!")
Make him look at you when you are talking to him and keep eye contact – make your face stern and frown as you get after him., A dog that isn't looking at you isn't listening to you.
When you go to let him up from the belly-down, you relax your face and voice into neutral tones of "now steady you settle - chill it down". Being good gets smiles and upbeat upwards voice tones in "O - K -A -Y, what a good guy (or girl).
And yes - your facial expression is VERY important in communicating with your dog. Watch two dogs together - watch how their eyes and exxpressions change. I can get dogs that I know (mine, the neighbors,....) to come to me from 100 feet away by tipping my head to the side and smiling at them and making eye contact - and no words..
It doesn't matter how big the dog is - you are winning by force of personality and sheer sound and fake fury - just like the Alpha dog. My dogs outweigh me by over 20 lbs. and we have agreed that proper behavior is never optional - and in exchange, they hang on and around me and go everywhere I do.
Let me know how it goes. My email is set to receive - make sure yours is too (go into your ID, - "my info" or something like that.).
2006-11-03 17:20:52
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answer #1
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answered by ann a 4
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I took both my dogs to obedience training and this is what they taught.
Take off her collar during training and use a choke chain with a short leash. Have one person in charge of the leash (the popper) and the other be the person she wants to jump up on (the guest). When she jumps up, give the leash a good, serious, POP and loudly say OFF! The pop should be one quick, strong, surprising POP. Not a pull her down, not a pull until she can't breath and gives up, a quick POP. If she doesn't get down, pop it again and say OFF. When she does get off, praise her lovingly. If she gets bouncy again, pop the leash.
The objective is for her to stop jumping up, but if she does, you can control her with the word OFF as it becomes associated with the POP.
If you do sometimes let her put her paws up on you, make sure YOU asked HER to do it, make sure she was invited. Even if you enjoy it, NEVER let her do it on her own, always give her a pop if it was her idea to get up. The trainer said that for the first couple weeks you should keep her leash on so you can give her training at moments notice.
Advance the training by having the 'guest' get excited, bouncy, and wave hands in the air and see if your dog will follow suit and jump up on the 'guest'. Make common motions someone else would make such as raising arms and make sure your dog doesn't jump up. Again, make sure you do not pat your chest to insinuate an invitation
Good luck!
2006-11-03 16:25:27
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answered by Margie 4
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You have to completely ignore the dog when it jumps (which is why turning the back is suggested). Even kneeing the dog down is contact, even tho negative, it's still attention.
It takes a lot of time and consistency to eliminate a behavior such as this. My Border Collie puppy was terrible about jumping up, as is a stray we've recently taken in. I've been using the "turning the back to the dog" method with great results. When you used this method, how long did you try it for? When the dog returned to all 4's did you then praise and pay attention for the dog staying down as you wished? It's really important to reward the down on all 4's as it happens so the dog gets the idea that's what you want of him.
Another idea might be to try a clicker. You first click and then give a treat several times so your dog gets the idea that the click means a reward for doing something you like. When your dog jumps up, ignore it, turn your back and wait for him to go down on all 4's, when he does, click and reward for this. He'll get the idea that this is a behavior you want as opposed to jumping up.
2006-11-03 16:20:04
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answered by Shadow's Melon 6
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I had the same problem- and this is what I did to fix it:
Whenever my dog would jump up on me I'd tell him "No Jump", grab him by the scruff of the neck (not aggressively), and put him in a sitting position. If he kept jumping, I would shun him for a few minutes. When he started to learning that jumping was a no-no, I would tell him to sit when he came up to me, then pet him. I think this really helped to reinforce the no jumping rule. Good luck with your dog and I hope this helps!
2006-11-04 00:25:16
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answered by jerseagrl 2
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Does he get adequate workout? He could be getting a minimum of a pair of hours workout an afternoon, ideally chop up into 2 long, %. walks. If no longer, it is the 1st place to commence. positioned a lead on him once you recognize somebody is going to come again over. If he jumps, gently tug it and say 'no' firmly. compliment him for no longer leaping. once you return in, completely overlook approximately him till he stops leaping at you or step in direction of him whilst he jumps heavily so as that he's not claiming your area. provide him a great number of compliment for no longer leaping. continually bypass all the way down to his point to grant compliment so as that he does not would desire to bounce as much as gain you.
2016-10-03 06:28:13
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answered by Anonymous
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Is it when you come home or when company comes oveR? I don't know if it works, but the books say to keep the dog separated from company until it has a chance to calm down.
2006-11-03 16:12:47
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answered by Squishy 1
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tell her no jumping and she jumps softly spank her and try again
2006-11-03 16:20:23
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answered by mickeymousedude 2
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Shoot it.
2006-11-03 16:12:55
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answered by Short Fuse 1
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