There are some specific reasons why dog obedience training for puppies is important. One of those is to stop puppies from jumping on people. It may not grow out of the habit and pounce on you continuously.
In order to express emotions, your puppy tends to jump or pounce on you. It may look harmless at the start or even cute. However, what happens when it starts to jump on little kids who come around your house? Would you like your dog jumping on you after a tiring work day or slobbering saliva on your shirt?
The most important thing that you might want to look at is the puppy’s age. Four months is usually the ideal age to enroll your dog into a program. However, you need to consider the breed of the dog. The bigger the size, the earlier you have to start the training.
You should outline a proper dog obedience program for your puppy to prevent it from jumping. You might be giving mixed signals before this by rewarding it for jumping on you. There are times when you just pat it, hug it or give it a biscuit when it jumps up and down in front you.
Well this should stop. The syllabus should be standardized so your puppy will not be confused. Never allow yourself to reward it with anything when it jumps up and down from the start.
The simplest obedience step to prevent jumping for puppies is to teach them to sit-stay. It is not easy to restrain your puppy from feeling excited to see someone they like but there is a way to do so. You might not even notice how simple this part of the training is.
This will teach your puppy to sit-stay when someone walks through the house door. You can just walk from the front door to the back door to demonstrate this dog obedience part of syllabus. Before that, you have to instruct your puppy to sit stay.
Get the help you need from your children or spouses for more effective dog obedience training. Have them walk from the same route but asking your puppy to sit-stay before you open the door. If may be hard at first for your puppy to conceal its excitement but if it is repeated several times, the dog should get a clear picture of the step.
Training should be carried out as frequent as possible for the puppy to grasp the concept. Training it once a day will make it less efficient than it should be.
This sometimes might tire you out. Regardless of how tired and frustrated you are to get the puppy to understand what you are trying to convey, never lose your temper. Resorting to yelling or even physical abuse, might only ruin your carefully planned dog obedience sessions. Try to incorporate reward biscuits in the dog obedience program. By giving it dog biscuits when it manages to sit-stay, your puppy will learn what it should do the next time the doorbell chimes.
Terence Young
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#1 by sweet pea on December 18, 2009 - 3:54 am
How can i stop my dog from jumping on people?
Ok I have a dog that is not the best at commands. but he does now how to sit. But he keeps jumping on people and I don’t know how to make him stop what can i do to make him stop jumping.
#2 by Sassy Shih Tzu on December 18, 2009 - 8:56 am
You dog is excited. Whenever your dog starts to jump on you or others ignore her. Turn the other way around and do not pet her or look at her until she calms down. Let her know her jumping gets her no attention. She should eventually clam down and when she does praise her. If she starts to get excited and jump again continue to ignore her. It’s a process, but it you stick to it, it will work.
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#3 by =] on December 18, 2009 - 8:58 am
i deffinetly agree with Sassy Shih Tzu
also STILL if that doesnt work grab him by his collar and pull him down and hold him there, continue and again like Sassy Shih Tzu said, have the people ignore him.!
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happy, hyper 130 lbs black lab burnese mount. dog mix, ughh. lol
#4 by HI!! on December 18, 2009 - 9:00 am
when he jumps on you, turn around and dont pay attention to him. he will get the idea, make sure ur guests know that u r trying to train him not to jump and to turn around and not pay attention. i know guests are always liek ohh its ok!! and let them do it…DONT LET THEM SAY THIS!! lol…anyway good luck…practice all teht ime
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#5 by wishnuwelltoo on December 18, 2009 - 9:02 am
Well if you are having problems with your commands, switch your commands. All of my dogs respond to different words, sounds, or hand signals, so if something isn’t working switch to something your dog responds to. For "no jumping" I would say "no jumping," "off", or "shame", I would lift the dogs legs off of me, and dance the dog backward. When the dog sits, I would say "good boy" The dog needs to learn what behaviors you allow, and what behaviors you do not allow. Now, if my dog jumped on someone at my house, I would tell that person to use the command, lift the legs off, and dance the dog backward. When the dog sits and can behave, then praise it. I can only correct a behavior as it applies to me, if the dog jumps on someone else, I expect that person to correct it, but I tell them what method we use at our house.
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#6 by :strawberry:sweetheart: on December 18, 2009 - 9:04 am
Well first of all realize that yes in a way it is dangerous for a dog to jump on you because it could knock you over and you could get hurt. So what you need to do is teach the dog that YOU are in control YOU are the alpha dog.
The dog needs to know that you are the one in control. So once that is in consideration to the dog. The dog will listen to you. So watch this video underneath. It is about a dog that jumped on her constantly when it was time to go for a walk. Watch what this one person does to teach the dog who is in control.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAD2T_bAdY