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You state:
From this I interpret that your dog jumps uncontrollably on people when they enter your house, and will not obey a sit command under distraction.
You did not post that ignoring your dog works for you until after my and elegy's post.
In my experience in training dogs, for ME, ignoring this sort of behavior does not work. Maybe it does for some people, however, I have big dogs, and I cannot have them jumping all over people while I instruct them to "ignore it".
I also did not realize that you have ANY experience in training dogs.
From this I interpret that your dog jumps uncontrollably on people when they enter your house, and will not obey a sit command under distraction.
You did not post that ignoring your dog works for you until after my and elegy's post.
In my experience in training dogs, for ME, ignoring this sort of behavior does not work. Maybe it does for some people, however, I have big dogs, and I cannot have them jumping all over people while I instruct them to "ignore it".
I also did not realize that you have ANY experience in training dogs.
I have used the sit method before, if fact, it was what we first tried. We have found than when a person enters, he gets more gratification from jumping than he does from a treat. So YES, when we use that particular method it does not work and he continues to jump. THAT was what I was saying.
I turned around and started using the ignore method because I have heard and seen that work before, from you know who. And that has worked much better for US. Especially when a NEW person enters is when he likes to jump, but it very quickly ceases when he gets the opposite of what he wants... ATTENTION!
Now when familiar people come over, he rarely ever tries to jump, because he knows where it will get him. With new people, he needs a reminder, that they WILL ignore him as well. Nope, Reggin is not big.
EDIT:
It is a work in progress.