Jumping and chasing is a common problem among dogs, it’s not ever a problem problem for the dogs, it’s the humans hanging around that are the issue.
Having to deal with footprints, gouges in their skin and clothes and scared kids!
Lots of puppies are encouraged when small wiggling with excitement and making clumsy leaps at our knees.
As a rule owner reward that puppy’s behavior by reacting with affection. The puppy learns fast jumping and to a lesser extent chasing is good. Dog doesn’t understand the difference between jumping as a youngster and then later when full grown.
To a dog, a greeting is a greeting, and just because he’s aged by a few months is no reason to stop jumping – at least, not voluntarily. You will have to take things into your own hands and make it clear jumping is no longer an option.
Really, any kind of jumping involving anyone apart from yourself is just bad form.
All owners with even pretensions of responsibility should arm their dogs with a reliable recall to the “off” command. Dogs generally jump or chase for joy, much less common but more serious is if a dog jumps to exert their dominance over you or whomever they jump on.
In this instance you need to make serious adjustments to your relationship with your dog.
Brush up on your alpha-dog techniques (note: Secrets to Dog Training has some fantastic resources on coping with a dominant dog – there’s a link to the site at the bottom of the page).
This means that you can’t allow him to jump sometimes, but forbid him from doing it at other times. Dog’s understand nothing of the difference between a playful and an irritable mood or your work and play clothes.
Simply ignore the dog whenever he jumps up the idea is to give him the cold shoulder and withdraw all attention. Whenever your dog jumps on you turn your back. Since dogs understand body language a lot more clearly than they do the spoken word you’re going to be using your posture to convey the message that such behavior isn’t acceptable.
Remember your ignoring the behavior not the dog, the cold shoulder is a really effective way of communicating your displeasure to a dog he will catch on very quickly.
Dogs have a short “training memory” and are only capable of associating a reaction from you with whatever behavior it is they’re exhibiting at the time of that reaction.
So, it’s perfectly OK for you to react with wild enthusiasm the very second that his paws touch the ground, even if you were cold-shouldering him the split-second before.
Recommended reading and more info on solving canine behavioral problems you’d probably be interested in checking out Secrets to Dog Training.
It’s a complete how-to manual for dog owners and is full of all the information you’d ever need on dog psychology, canine how-to’s, advice for dealing with problem behaviors and detailed step-by-step guides to obedience training.
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