Jumping, jumping, jumping

[Sanas_K]

Don't get me wrong, I love my dog to be happy to greet me when I get home, but her jumping has GOT to stop. She has a crate that I put her in when I'm only gone for a couple of hours, or it's time for her to go to bed for the night. If I happen to be gone for the whole day, she gets put outside. When I let her out of the crate or let her in from outside, no matter what the time, she goes into this hyper fit where she jumps all over you. I don't want to hurt her, and she doesn't listen to me when I tell her stop...no matter what my tone, so I'm not sure what to do. I've even made her lie down and roll over onto her back in a submissive manner, but then as soon as she's back up or I remove my hand from her, she jumps and jumps and jumps more. She's not a tiny little dog, she's hurt me from jumping onto me.

Her jumping habits have only gotten worse, she now thinks its ok for her to jump on the couch whenever she wants...and she doesn't care if I'm there or I have company over, she'll jump right up onto them. The other day I was asleep on the couch and she thought it was her turn for the couch and she jumped right up on face, her claw digging into my lip and giving me a canker sore and fat lip.

She needs to learn that there is a time to play and be hyper and a time when she needs to be calm.

Any suggestions on getting her to keep off me and my furniture until I say it's ok?

 

[~Tucker&Me~]

First off, I would no longer leave her in the yard. Unsupervised, it is a dangerous place. She could catch her collar on something, get stolen, poisened by some creep (they are definately out there) etc.

When she jumps, stand stock still, do not look at her or say anything to her. Look up at your ceiling or focus on a wall. She will probably jump all over you, whine and claw at you. Just sit tight and wait until all 4 paws are on the floor. Once she's calmed slightly and is not jumping, gently ask for a sit. If she complies, reward her with praise and petting. If she does not, continue the ignoring. You may find that once you start praising her she jumps up again. If so, the moment she breaks the sit ignore her again.

I had success with this method for my dogs .

Best of luck!

~Tucke

 

[malmo]

I'm reading a book called "The Dog Listener" and she addresses this exuberance as standard dog behavior when the pack is reuniting. It's an interesting read -- she basically advocates totally ignoring the dog until the dog gives up. Then give the dog a 5-minute timeout to chill and lie down or whatever the dog does after it stops jumping. Then, you call the dog to you for affection. Let us know if you try something that works.

 

[mrose_s]

I had to train mac out of this, you've never seen a dog so excited to see you. If she started jumping I simply turned away form her, she gets no attention from jumping, when she stopped (which soemtimes took a while) i would turn around, ask her to sit, and when she did PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE, if she started jumping up again, i would just turn around and ignore.

Now I walk in the door (a week after I started training) i walk in, she comes running i just say "sit" in a poilte tone and she skids to a halt and sits as well as she can with her tail go wagging. On the occasion she doesn't stop in time and jumps, i just turn around and ignore, and now she gets it, she stops right away and i turn around and she is sitting down already.

Even yelling or pushing is just attention to your dog and only reinforces the behaviour

 

[mrose_s]

I use that method with mac because I don't want her to stop an enthusiastic greeting all together but its a much calmer way for her to say hello.

 

[Sanas_K]

This morning when I let her out of her crate she did her usual jumping, I ignored her and she stopped pretty fast. I like that idea of having my Sana sit...I think I'll try that instead of just a flat out ignore next time.

I also am trying to get her to sit outside before she's allowed inside. Generally she just plows over you to get in...very bad manners. It took me a good 5 mins for her to get it in her head that she had to sit calm before I opened the door enough for her to get through, but once she did I made sure to praise her and give her a little treat, surprisingly enough, she didn't jump all over me like usual...so no need for the ignoring that time.

Now...to just get her to not jump onto the furniture unless I give her permission...

 

[mrose_s]

lol sounds so familiar, mac also thinks she's entitled to jump all over the lounge whenever she wants. I woldn't let her on last night so she sat at me feet and shivered at me.

 

[Sanas_K]

Rawr...I thought we were doing good...but I suppose not so much after all. She's getting quite good at realizing she has to sit down and be calm before she is allowed inside the house, but once inside the jumping begins.

My boyfriend ignored her as I told him to, and she got upset at him for it so took it out on our $300 rug. -.- She unraveled the corner and strew the bits of carpet all over the living room when he stepped away for a moment. He was bitter the rest of the night, not towards her, just in general...I think his mood carried over to Sana though, she was in an very unusual mood when I got home from work...I've never seen her so misbehaved...I had to send her to bed early because I just couldn't deal with her clawing at me and trying to nip at my hands to get my attention

-sigh- My little Sana...6, 7 months old...are those the tough times for a growing pup? She's behaving worse than I was when I was a teen. o.o btw, is is possible she's still teething? or may lose her baby teeth? she has a desire to chew everything...or maybe she just knows she'll get attention when she gets hold of a shoe or pair of undies?

 

[mrose_s]

this is the exact time all her progress will start going ou the window. We had 2 puppies hit that stage at the same time. We lost many christmas pressies from underneath the tree last year.

a dog that can be perfectly behave will start going through their "rebel" stage when coming up to a year old. Stick with training and fight through it. its their teenage time when they want to test boundries and push you around. Harry and mac just started coming down form this faze a few months ago.

it is usually the worst around a year old though.

If you catch her with something she shouldn't be chewing, just take it off her without a word and hand her her own chew toy then praise and play. Harry developed a love of chewing electrical chrods and stealing underwear so I used that to fix that a little bit, but since then he's found his love of toilet paper... argh. lol